How will Israel look after the war?!
An article in The Jerusalem Post today:
Israeli society shows enormous resilience in response to Hamas massacre
My (extended) comment:
I fully agree. I think that the biggest shock — positive for us and probably negative for everybody else — is the sudden and unconditional unity and mutual responsibility Israelis and most Jews around the world have shown, even in the face of enormous external hate and pressure all over the world.
Finally, we started to remember that our nation and its survival solely depends on our unity, much more than on the abilities of the defense forces or any questionable allies we have.
But after the war, even if it is fully successful on all fronts, questions and doubts will arise, and probably new elections will come.
And those are the times when the instinctively egocentric, subjective partisanship and distrust come alive again. We know very well how capable we are of “unfounded hatred”; we lived in it during the weeks and months before the Hamas attack and uncountable times during Jewish history.
Can we hold onto our unity above all that comes? Can we discuss all the difficult and even seemingly unsolvable problems and questions in a way that all disputes only strengthen our unity?
And this is not only for our own sake. The undisputed and unconditional unity and mutual responsibility Jews can show others — above and despite vast and undeletable differences and mutual animosity that constantly grows due to the instinctively egoistic and subjective human nature — is the only way humanity can survive itself.
Thus, when Jews show their unity — in good and bad times, even without obvious external reasons — they exert a positive influence on everybody else and facilitate humanity’s continuing survival!
Just as the brilliant and enabling winning response to the attacks, this is also our absolute and mutual responsibility!
We must not forget the warning from around Mount Sinai: “Unity and mutual guarantee, or death!”