The psychology of terror works especially when we are divided and weak!
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
As the article states, terrorists and enemies of Israel are probing our weaknesses. As the events of the last few days show, they can still successfully pit Israelis against one another.
The events of October 7th and the constant efforts to undermine the government and the IDF during an existential war show that we are still extremely weak.
We are weak as we still cannot revive our original, undisputed, and unconditional unity and mutual guarantee the Israeli Nation is built upon.
The overwhelming unity after the terror atrocities in October was simply instinctive, and such unity does not last.
Despite the threatening situation — fighting an existential war on 3–4 fronts while the whole world is pressuring Israel into terrible compromises with antisemitism rising — most of us still only focus on our narrow self-benefit.
We really have to take the Torah’s symbolic but real instructions seriously, sometimes taking them word by word.
The warning at Sinai, when the Nation was asked to pledge to become a Nation of “one man with one heart” to merit the Torah, despite recognizing the “Mountain of Hatred” between them, is still valid today: “United society or death!”
The method of the Torah teaches us the unchangeable and ruthless laws of nature. Everything depends on us learning and implementing those laws.
The number one law — described by the principle of “Love your friend as yourself” — is the law of selfless and unconditional mutual integration and mutually complementing cooperation.