{"id":10146,"date":"2006-07-27T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/life\/other\/the_first_war_all_over_again\/"},"modified":"2015-10-22T05:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T10:26:28","slug":"the_first_war_all_over_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/the_first_war_all_over_again\/","title":{"rendered":"The First War, All Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ou-images\/content\/chazak200.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"197\" height=\"127\" name=\"image\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is a different kind of war, and an old kind of war. In the last war, when they blew up buses and restaurants and sidewalks and cafes, Israelis were enraged, apoplectic with anger. This time, it\u2019s different. Rage has given way to sadness. Disbelief has given way to recognition. Because we\u2019ve been here before. Because we\u2019d once believed we wouldn\u2019t be back here again. And because we know why this war is happening.<\/p>\n<p>A rocket hit Haifa in the first days of the war, killing no one, but injuring a number of people. It also tore the face off an apartment building, leaving the apartments inside eerily exposed, naked, for all to gaze into. That small block of Haifa, with its shattered shell of a building, rubble all along the street, citizens dazed as they wandered about looking at it all, appeared to be exactly what it was \u2013 a war zone.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the people in the street stayed near their homes, going nowhere. The newscaster asked them why they didn\u2019t go somewhere else, where it might be safer. One man answered with statistics. \u201cWhy leave now? We\u2019ve already been hit. The chances of us being hit again are one in a million.\u201d To which another man responded almost with outrage. \u201cWhat do numbers have to do with it?\u201d he asked. And then, he turned to the camera, almost screaming, pointed to the broken building, and said, \u201cThis is our home. Mi-po ani lo zaz. From here, I am not budging. And he repeated his refrain over and over again. \u201cThis is my home. And from here, I am not budging.\u201d Mi-po ani lo zaz.<\/p>\n<p>Israelis understand what this is. This is a war over our homes. Over our homes in the north, for now, but eventually, as the rockets get better and larger, all of our homes. This is not about the territories. This is not about the \u201coccupation.\u201d This is not about creating a Palestinian State. This is about whether there will be a state called Israel. Sixty years after Arab nations greeted the UN resolution on November 29 1947 with a declaration of war, nothing much has changed. They attacked this time for the same reason that they did sixty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At first, it was the Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians. We put a stop to that in 1949, 1956, 1967 and 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was the Palestinians, who bamboozled the world (and many of us Israelis) into believing that they just wanted a State, and that their terror was simply a way of forcing us to make one possible. We fought the terror in 1982 (Lebanon), 1987 (Intifada) and even after Camp David and Oslo, once again in 2000-2005 (the Terror War). And then, we actually tried to make the State happen. We got out of Lebanon to put an end to that conflict. And even more momentous, we got out of Gaza, hoping that they\u2019d start to build something.<\/p>\n<p>And now, it\u2019s Hezbollah. Or more accurately, Syria. Or to be more precise, Iran. What\u2019s Iran\u2019s beef with Israel? Territory it lost? It didn\u2019t lose any. And does anyone really believe that Iran cares one whit about the Palestinians and their state? That\u2019s not the reason. We know it, and so do they.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the bitter reality of which Israel\u2019s right wing had warned about all along is beginning to settle in. It is not lost on virtually any Israelis that the two primary fronts on which this war is being conducted are precisely the two fronts from which we withdrew to internationally recognized borders. We withdrew from Gaza, despite all the internal objections, hoping to move Palestinian statehood \u2013 and peace \u2013 one step closer. But all we got in return was the election of Hamas, and a barrage of more than 800 Qassams that they refused to end. And then they stole Gilad Shalit. Not from Gaza. Not from some contested no man\u2019s land. From inside the internationally recognized borders of Israel. As if to make sure that we got the point \u2013 \u201cThere is no place that you\u2019re safe. There is no place to which we won\u2019t take this war. You can\u2019t stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because as much as we have wanted to believe otherwise, they have no interest in building their homeland. They only care about destroying ours.<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago we pulled out of Lebanon. Same story. In defiance of the UN\u2019s resolution 1559, Hezbollah armed itself to the teeth, and as we watched and did nothing, accumulated more than 10,000 rockets. And dug itself into the mountains. And established itself in Beirut, effectively using the entire Lebanese population as human shields. And, assuming that there was little that we could or would do, it attacked on July 12, killing eight soldiers, and stealing Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Not from Southern Lebanon. Not from Har Dov, a tiny hilltop that\u2019s still contested. But from inside Israel. Inside a line that no one contests.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, they contest the idea of the whole enterprise. Which they do. And which is precisely the point.<\/p>\n<p>And which is why this incredibly divided and divisive society has rallied so monolithically around a Prime Minister who until last week wasn\u2019t terribly popular, and around a war that may or may not accomplish all its military objectives. It explains why, even as the air raid sirens go off across the country, and may eventually start their wail in Tel Aviv, too, as people dash across streets, panicked, trying to find the nearest bomb shelter, no one complains about the government. No one\u2019s complaining about the amount of time it\u2019s taking the air force to put a stop to this. It explains why all over this city, advertisements on bus stops have been replaced with a photo of an Israeli flag and the phrase Chazak Ve&#8217;ematz \u2013 \u201cbe strong and resolute\u201d (Moses\u2019 words to Joshua in Deut. 31:7). Even the people who\u2019ve lost family members, who are interviewed while still overwrought with grief, have no complaints about the government or the army. \u201cFinish this job,\u201d they effectively say. \u201cWe\u2019ll stick it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pquote\">But behind the defiance lies sadness, a tired and experienced renewed loss of optimism, a wondering if it will ever, ever end.<\/div>\n<p>Because we know what they want. It\u2019s not the Golan Heights. It\u2019s not the West Bank. And it\u2019s not a State. We know what they want, and we know why they want it.<\/p>\n<p>On TV the other night, one of the news shows started off with a brief comedic episode. It showed two guys, looking and acting Israeli to the hilt. One of them was speaking in a heavy caricatured Sephardic North African accident, spitting toothpicks as he carried on, telling his friend, over and over and over, mi-po ani lo zaz. This is the only place where Jews can be safe, he insisted. This is the place we must stay. From here, I\u2019m not moving.\u201d And then the camera panned back, until gradually, you realized that the background you were staring at was the London Bridge, and the Tower of London. It would have been funny, if it weren\u2019t so sad.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad, because deep down, people are starting to wonder. Would going there be the only way to get beyond their hate? We got out of Lebanon. We left Gaza. Olmert was elected after he openly declared his intention to give back the majority of the West Bank. But without intending to, we called their bluff. And now we know: the issue isn\u2019t their statehood. It\u2019s ours.<\/p>\n<p>The sadness comes from the clarity. We can sign peace treaties, and withdraw, and arm ourselves. But nothing\u2019s enough. You sign a treaty with Egypt, but then Syria takes over Lebanon and uses Hezbollah as its proxy. You get peace with Jordan, but Iran joins the fray. You learn to defend your border, so they attack you from well within their countries. It feels relentless, because it is. It feels like it never ends, because it doesn\u2019t. It doesn\u2019t feel like the seventh war. It feels like a continuation of the first. Could it be that we\u2019re right back where we started?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s why nobody I know actually laughed at the Tower of London skit.<\/p>\n<p>Is this like the first war, because we could win it and still not have security? What if, as even the army says is likely, Hezbollah is left wounded but still intact at the end? What, we just wait until they decide to lob more missiles at Haifa, or Safed, or even Tel Aviv? Bomb shelters will once again be part of the reality of Israeli kids? Have we returned to the late 40\u2019s and 1950\u2019s, when border towns had to live with the ongoing dread that Fedayeen would sneak across the border and kill people? Except that now, in an era of missiles, most of the country is a border town.<\/p>\n<p>This is like the first war because Israeli citizens, in the middle of the country, are getting killed by a foreign \u201carmy.\u201d In 1956, 1967 and even in 1973, we mostly took the war to the border. And then to their territory. Israel\u2019s civilian population centers, even in those horrible conflagrations, were left more or less intact. But not in 1948, and not this time. Haifa is the front. Safed is the front. Nazareth is the front. And they\u2019re all burying people. Adults, and children. Jews, and Israeli Arabs. And Tel Aviv, if you believe Nasrallah, may well be next.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s like the old wars because all our hopes to the contrary notwithstanding, the casualties are mounting. Just days after the Israeli pundits were discussing whether or not a limited ground incursion might be necessary, whether or not the air force could do this on its own, there are troops on the ground in Lebanon. Thousands of soldiers, the papers say this morning. And in the few days since they\u2019ve gone in, kids have been coming back in body bags. These are elite units, and though we\u2019re told that they\u2019re having some successes in finding and destroying the bunkers built into the mountain, they\u2019re encountering heavy resistance. And not all of them are making it home.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been here before, too. We\u2019d thought we were done with that.<\/p>\n<p>For the first few days of this new war, Israelis were relieved to see the footage of a hundred Israeli planes over Lebanon at any one point. We\u2019d show them that they\u2019d miscalculated. We\u2019d put a stop to this. We\u2019d get our stolen boys back. A decisive victory, like in days of old. With fewer casualties on our side. But well into the second week of the war, we don\u2019t have our boys back. And soldiers are dying, and coming home without legs. And the victory hasn\u2019t been decisive. And Israeli cities are still being shelled, and traumatized Israeli kids by the thousands are still sleeping in bomb shelters. Just like in the first war.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s like the first war because the news is broadcasting photos of lines of Arab refugees fleeing the fighting in Beirut, heading north, or to Syria. Israeli TV is showing footage of a former city that looks much more like Dresden than Beirut. There are probably some Israelis who couldn\u2019t care less, but the ones that I talk to, work with and share a neighborhood with, do care. They understand that we probably have no choice, for Hezbollah has decided to use Beirut as its human shield, and for years and years, Lebanon did nothing to stop them. Or even to try. And we have no choice but to survive.<\/p>\n<p>But the Israelis I talk to all day long are still saddened by the miles-long lines of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Lebanese refugees, fleeing their homes and rubble filled neighborhoods with white flags hovering outside their cars even as Israeli war planes roar overhead. Simply on a human level, we know that the suffering is incalculable. That, too, looks like that old black and white footage from the War of Independence. And as a problem for Israel, we know, Arab refugees don\u2019t disappear. They attack, we respond, they flee. And then the problem becomes ours.<\/p>\n<p>And even though Jerusalem is, so far, beyond the reach of the rockets, even here, the air has started to take on a war-like feel. A colleague of mine, in her 40\u2019s, cancelled a meeting yesterday because her real-estate agent husband was just called up and sent to the Egyptian border. A friend I met later in the afternoon cut a meeting short because his son was getting a few hours off. The kid hasn\u2019t even finished basic training, but was sent out to Samaria to guard an outpost so that more experienced kids could get sent to the front. And we were going to try to get together with other friends this morning, but they can\u2019t. Their twenty year old son got called up from his yeshiva, and sent to south of Hebron, and they\u2019re going to try to get out there to bring him some food for Shabbat. And our daughter won\u2019t be home for Shabbat \u2013 she\u2019s got guard duty on base. With the other two kids away for the summer, we\u2019re home by ourselves. The house feels empty, hollow. Like the towns in the north.<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes. Another all out war, when it could have been different. If they\u2019d wanted something else. But they don\u2019t. Not the Iranians, not the civilians in Syria interviewed on CNN who spoke with admiration of Nasrallah, not the Palestinians on the West Bank who\u2019ve posted his picture everywhere, and not even the Israeli Arabs in Nazareth who, from the depths of their mourning, blame Israel and not Nasrallah for the loss of their children.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s the seventh war (Or the eighth, if you count the War of Attrition. Or the ninth, if you count the first Intifada). And the first war. It\u2019s all the wars. They\u2019re all the same, in the end, because we can\u2019t afford to lose. We can\u2019t afford to lose, so we won\u2019t. More decisively or less, with more destruction of Lebanon or less, sooner or later, we\u2019ll win it. We have to. The whole enterprise is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the seventh war, or the eighth. And the first. When the 1973 Yom Kippur War was at its height, Yehoram Gaon went to the front and sang the now famous lyrics, Ani mavti\u2019ach lach \u2013 \u201cI promise you, my little girl, that this will be the last war.\u201d They never play that song anymore. Because no one believes it. There will be no last war.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the eighth war, or the ninth. But it isn\u2019t the last war. It\u2019s the first war, all over again. We\u2019ve got this war for the same reason that we had all the others. We have this war for the same reason that people in Haifa are still saying mi-po ani lo zaz. We got this war for the same reason that we got the first, and the second.<\/p>\n<p>We know why they attacked then. And we know why they\u2019re still attacking. And we\u2019re determined to hold on for the same reason that they\u2019re so determined never to stop. There\u2019s one reason, and one reason only:<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish People has nowhere else to go.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Daniel Gordis, reprinted with permission of the author. Daniel Gordis is Vice President of the Mandel Foundation &#8211; Israel, and the author, most recently, of <a title=\"Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel \" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0471789615\">Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel <\/a>(John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2006). Visit his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgordis.org\">www.danielgordis.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a different kind of war, and an old kind of war. In the last war, when they blew up buses and restaurants and sidewalks and cafes, Israelis were enraged, apoplectic with anger. This time, it\u2019s different. Rage has given way to sadness. Disbelief has given way to recognition. 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