The appropriate response to the UN Security Council resolution is not outcry about the world's hypocrisy. The problem is not the world, but our policies.
We have become accustomed to the world that we try very hard to please, even at the cost of harming our vital interests.
This laxity needs to be fundamentally changed.
On the morning of Yom Kippur 1973, when it was already clear that Egypt and Syria would launch an attack on Israel in the coming hours, the government discussed the Chief of Staff's request to launch a preemptive strike. The pilots were already sitting ready in the planes.
But the Prime Minister decided not to carry out the operation. She said that the world must not claim that we started the war.
The terrible price is known to all.
Consideration and price
A few years earlier, in the summer of 1970, the Americans had led a ceasefire between Israel and Egypt. The agreement explicitly stated that neither side would change the situation on the ground. Two days later, Israel noticed that the Egyptians were blatantly violating the agreement and advancing missile batteries toward the Suez Canal.
Instead of immediately attacking the batteries and responding firmly to the violation, Israel complained to the United States. The United States initially denied the facts and claimed that there was no evidence that the missiles had indeed been launched. Only later did it admit that Egypt was indeed violating the agreement, but pressured Israel to refrain.
Our pilots paid the price in the Yom Kippur War.
On the eve of the Six-Day War. Egypt blocks the Straits of Tiran to the passage of Israeli ships. Israel demands that the US fulfill the guarantee it gave for freedom of navigation, after the Sinai operation. The administration claims that they "cannot find the document.".
The small Jewish state finds itself alone, facing seven Arab armies sharpening their swords against it and an indifferent world. But this time, by the grace of God, a decision is made to launch a preemptive attack, and within six days the miracle of a great victory occurs.
Time and again we realized that the world would not stand on our side.
What has the world done to implement the UN resolutions regarding Lebanon? The resolutions are being blatantly violated by the Syrians and Hezbollah - and the world is silent.
But if we stand up and take action to protect our security, the world will go out of its way to condemn and protest.
The rules of the game have changed.
The change needs to take place within us, in our self-consciousness.
Enough of being the world's punching bag. Enough of allowing the entire world to interfere in the decisions of a sovereign state. Enough of the enormous funds of the European Union flowing to bodies designed to undermine the values of the Jewish state.
There is no need to make announcements and declarations, but simply to stop considering the nations of the world in everything related to our vital needs. Any such involvement should be rejected outright, and instead, practical decisions should be made that express the realization of Israeli sovereignty on the ground.
If we are determined, the world will very quickly realize that the rules of the game have changed, and it will adapt itself to the new rules.
The world is pragmatic. It presses where it seems possible to press. It is time for the world to realize that we are no longer pressing and that we have stopped taking instructions from it, and God will be with us.
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