Why do some people support Hamas after they attacked Israel?
After the truly inhumane and unprovoked large-scale attack against civilians — including women and children — in general, the world is standing with Israel at this stage.
Still, there are those who claim Hamas has justification for these actions, and even powerful Western democracies allowed pro-Palestinian rallies and celebrations to take place in their cities.
Moreover, based on previous experience, as soon as Israel gains the upper hand in this war, the seemingly steadfast support will predictably wane, and even the “strongest supporters” will ask for restraint and cry out for the use of “excessive force” in dealing with an enemy that hides behind its civilians and children purposefully, sacrificing their own “people” for their single-mined agenda of destroying Israel.
By that time, the pictures of memories of the unspeakable acts these terrorists committed will be forgotten, and the usual blaming of Jews and Israel will resume.
For most Jews and Israelis, this is incomprehensible. The problem is that we completely underestimate and misunderstand the hatred against us. And, of course, instinctively and predictably, even the hatred we feel against us forces Jews and even some Israelis to try to conform with the external views and try to apologize for the actions of Israel and Jews in other scenarios.
Many Jews in the Diaspora — and some even in Israel — go directly against Israel, and they would even contribute to the complete undermining and destruction of the Jewish State as we know it.
After all, before the Hamas attack, large-scale protests, infighting, and near civil war dominated Israel, while in the Diaspora, “Israel-bashing” and support for the Palestinians, even at the detriment of Israel, has been strong for a long time.
The problem is that due to our confusion and misunderstanding of the situation when we abandon our values and principles, when we try to assimilate and comply with the others who go against Jews and Israel, we just pour oil on the fire.
What we still do not understand — despite the overwhelming experience and historical evidence — is that the world does not hate Jews and Israel for being Jewish and Israeli. The world hates us most when we do not want to be Jews and Israelis.
“Being a Jew” and “being an Israeli” has nothing to do with nationality or religion. The original group of people who assembled around Avraham in ancient Babylon — and who became Jewish and later the Israel Nation — had no genetic or religious ties (Judaism as we know it started after the destruction of the Second Temple).
They connected based on a unique “ideology” of building a unique mutual integration with each other based on totally mutual responsibility and mutually complementing cooperation in order to resemble nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system, so through that similarity with nature, they could feel, study and understand how the natural system works and controls everything.
This “ideology” or aspiration — which means that they were “chosen” by nature’s evolution due to their unique sensitivity and inclination to become a unique group and nation that can later guide and help humanity to achieve what they achieved — made them “Jews and Israelis.”
And, while as this group developed and grew from generation to generation, a certain genetic and traditional resemblance also developed, but the original foundation and purpose of “Being Jewish” and “being Israeli” remained.
And while other nations do not understand and feel the real role of the Jewish Nation — creating a transition and example to follow for humanity to become a single, mutually integrated entity based on nature’s template above and against our inherently egoistic, individualistic, and cancer-like nature — others feel positivity when Jews keep and foster their unity, and they support this Jewish unity, while others start abhorring, hating and punishing Jews when they abandon their unity and start separating from each other.
We can find such preliminary Jewish separation, disunity, and infighting before each and every large-scale calamity that has befallen Jews throughout history. Our history and even the stories behind our Holidays are full of examples of Jewish “brotherly hatred,” attempts of assimilation, and forsaking our values and principles, inviting oppression, punishment, and destruction from others, most notably the destruction of the Temples, the expulsion of Jews from different countries and even the Holocaust.
This terrible breach in Israel’s security also followed a near-civil war situation in Israeli society.
The question is how much suffering and loss we need to go through before we humbly accept the unique role “Jews were chosen for” by nature’s evolution, and how much humanity’s fate also depends on the positive example of unity, mutual responsibility, and mutually complementing cooperation — above and against the instinctive differences, opposition and hate — we need to show to others?!