The brilliant victories of the people of Israel over the axis of evil that surrounded us are a miraculous manifestation of God's grace. As more and more details about the behind-the-scenes of the campaign are revealed, the great miracles that accompanied us at every step are revealed.
It's not for nothing that everyone talks about "Divine help" and "God's help.".
Here is one detail that was published: The working assumption before the attack on Iran was that our planes would be shot down and our pilots might be captured. The question was not if Planes will be shot down, but some They will be shot down. The decision was that we must be prepared to suffer the downing of several planes in order to accomplish the mission. The fact that all of our planes returned safely to their base, in the spirit of the verse "And not one of them was missing," is a wonderful miracle.
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Misplaced compassion
These great miracles give the feeling that there is a much greater move here than the defeat of Israel's enemies who sought to harm us. There is a sense of the times of redemption in the air, even though, as the famous words of Maimonides say, we cannot know in advance how things will happen until they actually happen.
In this week's Torah, we read Balaam's prophecy about the time of redemption. Over and over again, elements of the complete victory of the people of Israel over their enemies appear. The prophecy includes the phrases "and the gates of Moab will be crushed," "and the remnant of the city will be destroyed," and "and he will be destroyed." All enemies will be defeated, while the people of Israel will be "struck down with a sword.".
It is precisely in the midst of this great movement that it is painful to see what is happening in the Gaza Strip. By God's grace, we have succeeded in defeating great and powerful enemies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Iranian empire, while we have not been able to defeat the Gazan terrorist organizations, and the campaign has already lasted for more than twenty-one months and is exacting a heavy price in blood!
There is no doubt that the hostages being held captive by the terrorists restrains us from hitting them with all our might, but it turns out that this compassion both exacts expensive sacrifices from us and does not serve the return of the hostages. We have seen time and again that only great military pressure and a relentless onslaught cause the terrorist organizations to return hostages to us, while hesitant and cautious steps cause them to entrench themselves in their stubbornness.
To finish with a victory
Regarding a similar hesitation, which occurred in the 'Peace of Galilee' war, and which also claimed precious sacrifices from us, the Lubavitcher Rebbe cried out: "What a parable this is - to a soft-hearted person who enters an operating room and sees doctors beginning to operate on a patient, and upon seeing the first drops of blood, begins to beg the doctors to stop operating on the patient, and wait until the patient returns to us, then they will operate on him again, and so on.".
Our compassion for the kidnapped and the voices raised to stop the war achieve the opposite result. Instead of making our enemies understand that the battle is lost for them, and that they have no choice but to surrender, return all the kidnapped, and comply with the demand to disarm and step down from power in Gaza – they draw hope that the demonstrations and the pain of the families of the kidnapped will make us stop the war.
This hope must be dashed. Just as we all united behind the attack on Iran, we must unite in demanding an end to the war in the south with a complete and complete victory, and the speedy return of all our hostages.
