A remarkable article!
*Saying What Can't Be Said: Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat*
The war's aims won't be achieved, the hostages won't be returned through
military pressure, security won't be restored and Israel's international
ostracism won't end
/Chaim Levinson
<https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da25-d494-a17f-de271d2a0000>/,
Haaretz, Apr 11, 2024,
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-11/ty-article-magazine/.premium/saying-what-cant-be-said-israel-has-been-defeated-a-total-defeat/0000018e-cdab-dba9-a78e-efef6ba10000
We've lost. Truth must be told. The inability to admit it encapsulates
everything you need to know about Israel's individual and mass
psychology. There's a clear, sharp, predictable reality that we should
begin to fathom, to process, to understand and to draw conclusions from
for the future. It's no fun to admit that we've lost, so we lie to
ourselves. **
[…] We can’t say it, but we’ve lost. People have an inclination to
believe in the best and be optimistic, hoping that tomorrow will be
okay, that we are in a process that in the end will be more successful.
That’s the most fundamental failure of human thought: the notion that
the direction we are taking is a good one, that we just need to get
there already –*/that in just a little more time, with a little more
effort, the hostages will be returned, Hamas will surrender and Yahya
Sinwar will be killed. After all, we’re the good guys, and good will
triumph./*
*It’s the same mentality that leads to the notion that “the Iranian
regime will soon implode” and other notions that have more to do with
Hollywood scripts than life itself. They’re not the truth and it relates
to something that’s uncomfortable. After all, it’s uncomfortable telling
the public the truth.*
[…] No cabinet minister will restore our sense of personal security.
Every Iranian threat will make us tremble. Our international standing
was dealt a beating. Our leadership’s weakness was revealed to the
outside. *For years we managed to fool them into thinking we were a
strong country, a wise people and a powerful army. In truth, we’re a
shtetl with an air force, and that’s on the condition that its awakened
in time.*
[…] *Rafah is the newest bluff* that the mouthpieces are plying to fool
us and make us think that victory is just moments away. By the time they
enter Rafah, the actual event will have lost its significance. There may
be an incursion, perhaps a tiny one, sometime – say in May. *After that,
they’ll peddle the next lie, that /all we have to do is ________ (fill
in the blank), and victory will be on its way./* The reality is that the
war’s aims will not be achieved. Hamas will not be eradicated. The
hostages will not be returned through military pressure. Security will
not be reestablished.
*The more the mouthpieces shout that “we’re winning,” the clearer it is
that we’re losing. Lying is their craft. We need to get used to that.
Life is less secure than before October 7. The beating we took will
sting for years to come. The international ostracism won’t go away. And,
of course, the dead won’t be coming back. Nor will many of the hostages.*
For some of us, life will get back on track, with the petrifying fear of
an imminent repeat. And for some of us, life won’t get back on track.
Those people will walk among us like the living dead. That’s what we
voted for. That’s how it is. We need to get used to the sad reality in
our homeland.
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