@hayfarani@Steven_Strauss How sad...send the invoice to Hezzbolah and the Libanese government for not complying with the desarmamento clause regarding hezzbolah...FAFO.
There are moments that do not feel like victory—and yet they matter profoundly.
After 843 days, Ran Gvili has come home. Not alive. Not rescued. But returned. With him, the final hostage held in Gaza. No Israelis are left behind in that Hamas-created abyss.
This does not erase October 7. It does not redeem the price paid. But it matters because of what it says about who Israelis are—and who Jews have learned, painfully, to be.
Israel’s enemies believe in kidnapping the living and trafficking in the dead. They believe Jewish bodies can be turned into leverage, trophies, bargaining chips. That belief is central to their worldview.
Israel rejects it.
A society that does not fight to retrieve its dead is already half defeated. Israel is not such a society. From biblical burial obligations, through centuries of exile where Jews ransomed bodies at impossible cost, to a modern state that risks lives to recover the fallen—this is not sentimentality. It is civilizational muscle memory.
Ran Gvili was killed defending Israelis on Oct. 7. His body was abducted to serve Islamist terror’s logic. Bringing him home does not deny that Hamas tried—at times successfully—to use Jewish lives and bodies as currency. It rejects the premise that this defines us.
No one is abandoned. Not to terror. Not to time. Not even to death.
We could not save Ran. We could not undo October 7. But we did not accept disappearance as fate.
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