The War With Iran Reveals Israelis’ Split Personality - Opinion
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A foreigner wouldn’t understand the Israeli position; it seems paradoxical. But the vast majority of Israelis, and certainly of Israeli Jews, support the war in principle, despite having to hide in safe rooms and bomb shelters and being exhausted from more than two years of intensive warfare.
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Let’s assume most Israelis don’t think much about the lessons of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. But have they so quickly forgotten how we were promised over the last two years that Hamas and Hezbollah, and even Iran itself, not long ago, had been battered and defeated and flattened and all those other empty words?
Have we not learned from the barrages of missiles from Lebanon that there actually is no such thing as “total victory” unless there are agreements to complement the deployment of military might? When will we finally understand that there is no such thing as “Bang and we’re done”; it’s always just “Bang, we’ve begun”?