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Forgive us for our savagery

(a letter to the peace-loving world community)

Dear world community, that is currently wagging its finger at Israel and is suggesting the most extraordinary and at the same time genius solution for the current situation: “Stop shooting”! Looking at the history of Israel, I am impressed at your consistency in defending this principle.

In 1948, you drew a pretty line on a map that was supposed to separate Israel that belonged to the Jews and Palestine that belonged to the Arabs. You also drew the borders of Jerusalem that had a special international status. It was all so beautiful! You decided not to pay attention to the fact that Arab countries all around straight away said that they won’t tolerate a Jewish Israel. You continued to implement your peace-loving principles and withdrew your army.

You didn’t shoot when the armies of 5 different Arab countries first took over the land that was intended for the Arabs and then tried to destroy the Jews. Forgive us for the fact that the unreasonable and unwise Jews didn’t follow your recommendations and took weapons in their hands and defended every meter of land in order to build there their own country. If we would have just followed your example, then we wouldn’t have had Israel today and all the problems related to it. Forgive us.

Then there were years of long guerrilla warfare from Egypt and Transjordan on Israel territory. But TikTok and YouTube didn’t exist then and the information took a while to arrive in Europe. Probably when the information did arrive you oohed and shook your finger at someone. We just couldn’t see from here. Sorry for not noticing and fighting on our own.

Then there was the Suez crisis where Israel helped Britain and France not to get their own hands dirty and provided more of its own military than both of these countries combined. You shook your finger and threatened us with sanctions, and after that peacefully, how you like it, you brought your troops into Egypt to quiet down the situation there, but more importantly so that your tankers could safely pass through the canal.

In 1967 Egypt decided to get its army ready and attack Israel. They demanded that you got out. But you’re against violence! So you left. Because the most imperative thing is not to shoot! You showed us an example of how to avoid a conflict. Excuse that the unreasonable and slow Israel didn’t flee to another land, the same year Israel had to fight with Egypt, Iraq and Syria.

During that war, Israel acquired the Sinai Peninsula, Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Though it didn’t need that much territory. It just wanted not to have hostile armies gather around its cities.

Furthermore, the borders that you drew on the map in 1948, were erased long ago, and every year 10 to 15 thousand Arab “travelers” just randomly appeared here. Some of them brought explosives with them, but who knows maybe they wanted to stun fish. So essentially, we took a green marker and drew new borders and life got easier. However, you got heartbroken over the fact that we messed up your artwork. Sorry, we can buy you a new map.

Then there was the “War of Attrition”, ongoing terrorist attacks, the “Yom Kippur War”, you showed an example of peace and sat in Europe. You demanded of Israel to stop and not win that much. The only thing is when OPEC got mad at Israel and reduced its oil deliveries it brought a jump in prices all over the world. This, of course, was very bad, so you decided to show a special example of peacefulness. For the sake of peace during a UN meeting, you identified “Zionism as a form of racial discrimination.” Forgive us. Our Zionist Founding Fathers (whom you supported at the time) didn’t know about that.

As well, we had two wars with Lebanon. To start with, on the southern border with Lebanon, Syria established a whole mini-state (Fatahland). Israel arrived there and moved the Syrian army. Though as soon as Israel stopped its military actions you helped 10 thousand militants safely get back to their countries.

The only thing is, Israel stayed in control of the so-called “buffer” zone. This kind of Jewish impudence was outrageous, so in 2000 you forced us to leave. And then instead of the Syrian army, the border filled up with the Iranian Hezbollah. New fortifications and new weapon factories. No, you didn’t stay silent. You looked at Iran strictly and made them withdraw all of their foreign troops from their territory. “Ok!” they said and left Hezbollah on the border. And what can you possibly accuse Lebanon of?— they’re weak, they can’t control Hezbollah, therefore you decided not to pay attention to it.

Then, there was a new war, disarmament of the buffer zone. Then there was your cease-fire resolution! Thank you! You demanded to remove Hezbollah from that zone and reminded everyone that “This can’t happen again!” Moreover, at Israel’s request, you brought your troops and special people to, “observe the situation.” And they observed. They observed how Hezbollah resumed its activities there as well as new rockets flew towards us.

Oh yes, you constantly show us your peaceful and creative ideas. What wonderful conferences you have held, we even got to travel the world! The Camp David Accords, the Madrid Conference, negotiations in Washington, the Oslo Accords. And each one of them was a “breakthrough”, “step forward”, “unprecedented breakthrough.”... The only thing is in Gasa they considered the unprecedented breakthrough as a victory over Israel, and while riding this wave Hamas came to power (which you also recognized as a terrorist organization). But you are peace-loving, so you continued sending them help and finances. You saw how they made rockets and dug tunnels but taught Israel to stick with peace. Forgive us for restraining this activity even though you were mad.

I’m sure that now you also have a bunch of creative ideas on how to achieve peace. Thank you! Your example of peace-making on our land is outstanding! Your advice and examples — invaluable. Your resolutions are just the pinnacle of an imaginative style and meticulous phrasings.

Sorry that we’re so far behind you. Apologies for taking weapons into our own hands and trying to disarm Hamas that is bombing our cities. Perhaps it would have been easier for us to follow your example of peace if, for example, European cities were being bombed. Although, I think no, I think we are still barbarian people, and we will support an anti-terror group regardless of where it is located. As was the case when Israel assassinated al-Masri, al-Qaeda No.2. So forgive us for our barbaric ways. We will fight terror as we can.