Jokes and Humor

Part 2:

Having said that, the IDF - a conscription army that is a pretty accurate reflection of the diverse Israeli population, most of which share no love for their current government - is not Netanyahu and their conduct in this war has been exemplary. No other army in the world does more to warn civilians and get them out of harms way. The civilian evacuation corridor they established for example has been a stroke of genius and while a large number of civilians have been killed by them, there is zero proof that any of their deaths have been intentional. Even if we take Hamas' death counts for granted, far fewer than one person dies for each large bomb dropped by Israel. This could only happen if Israel was picking targets carefully and warning civilians. They are not perfect though and I would never claim otherwise. The problem is that they are still humans, humans who make mistakes. There is no doubt that there is an average number of assholes and idiots among the IDF, some of which will abuse their power as soldiers, just like even UN blue helm soldiers do during humanitarian missions. These are in the end, the good ones and the bad ones, just humans who are fighting against the horrific Islamofascist Hamas, an organization that does everything in their power to get the civilian death toll up, even to the point of bombing and shooting their own people. How does one fight such an enemy? We are not yet in the age of scary perfect drones that can only kill terrorists with absolutely no civilians getting harmed.

I've studied this conflict for over 20 years. The more I read about it, the less I understand what's going on. I don't think this current war will solve the conflict or come even close to that. All it will do once it's over is protect Israel from another attack like October 7 for at least a few decades, if not longer. That's the immediate goal of the IDF, nothing more, nothing less. It won't solve the issue of Palestinian statehood, it won't solve the issue with the settlers, it won't solve the issue of decades of indoctrination Palestinian Arabs received, which keeps the conflict alive with generation upon generation even in the face of concessions. When you see a little girl with pigtails going to a UN school talk about how she wants to stab every Jew when she grows up - how does one solve this? Not even the denazification of Germany had to undo this type of indoctrination. At the same time, I don't see the Israeli state take back such injustices as indefinite detention of suspects, with gets almost exclusively applied to Arabs. Every single attack on Israel means the Israeli society scoots further to the right, across the entire political spectrum, which in turn means that compromise and dialogue with the Arab side become less likely.

I think what's frightening to Hamas and Fatah leaders is that they are falling behind and losing in relevance at a rapid pace. They have unguided fertilizer rockets that are only good for mass terror bombings while the other side is widely deploying combat robots - and every day, the gap widens. They will discover (and I suspect they know all too well) that once this current war is over in at most two or three months time, the world will almost immediately forget about them again beyond the occasional declaration of solidarity for civilians. Most of Israel's former enemies have long since made peace with the only Jewish nation in the world, after several costly wars they launched and lost against it. Despite Hamas' frantic calls, nobody came for their aid, except for two Iranian-backed terror groups that can do little more than poke at the Hornets' nest. Russia, China, Syria, North Korea, Hezbollah, Hamas - that is one unholy alliance of awfulness that has nothing to offer to this world other than trying to divide it. The only battlefield where they are shockingly successful is social media, where they flood everything with their divisive dreck in the hope of weakening the West and thereby strengthening their position. It works with GenZ, which worries me a lot, but GenZ don't vote, so for now at least, this doesn't change a thing.

I just hope that this uncaring universe will end this stupid war as soon as possible, for the sake of every innocent caught in it.

P.S.

I apologize once again to anyone who felt like they had to read this unfiltered expression of frustration, sleep-deprivation, self-importance, depression and who knows what else. You could probably write a whole dissertation on my broken mind using this text only. Feel free to discuss any of the points I made with me, but be warned that I might drown you in a similarly long response if you do. Do it at your own risk.