“Pure joy in the air” is how an Israeli journalist describes the mood in Israel right now.
But how could that be?
If the Israelis want, above all, genocide and ethnic cleansing, then why would they celebrate a deal that ends the war with no ethnic cleansing and 97% of the Gazans alive?
“Pure joy” is not what you feel when your deepest ambitions have just been thwarted.
It’s almost as if the goal of the war really was to get the hostages back and oust Hamas. It’s almost as if Israelis are motivated by a deep, dark desire to…live in peace with their neighbors.
To be clear, Iran has used 4 separate Middle Eastern states as launching grounds for military attacks against Israel for over four decades, dragging already impoverished countries into its holy forever war and destroying them in the process.
Alright, don't stop there, let’s talk about what happened to him?
He was killed on the spot. His grave was never turned into a shrine. There’s no statue of him, no streets named after him, no schools teaching children to honor his “sacrifice.”
When Yitzhak Rabin stood before the Knesset, he didn’t hesitate to call Goldstein a criminal and a Nazi.
Jews do not celebrate terrorists. They do not turn murderers into martyrs. They don’t name public squares after them, they don’t put their faces on murals, and they don’t teach children to aspire to be like them.
Israel condemns its extremists, hunts them down, imprisons them, and ensures their ideology dies with them.
Now, look across the divide.
In the Muslim world, terrorists are immortalized. They’re role models, their crimes rewritten as acts of heroism, their names passed down as legends.
The more blood they spill, the more streets, schools, and statues they get.
Sinwar is a hero.
Hassan Nasrallah has a shrine.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is glorified.
Osama bin Laden, is still a beloved figure to millions. Saddam Hussein, who gassed his own people, started wars, and terrorized his country, is a legend in the Arab world.
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I don’t want it. He’s NOT my first or second or third or fourth choice by a long shot. But I may have talked myself slightly into Mike McCarthy compared to some of the other choices.