Israeli parents are eager that the "need" for their children to enlist will cease to exist. October 7th painfully reminded us that this "need" is still very much a part of Israeli society.

"Delete Israel and the West from the world, and we would still be as ignorant as we are. We would still be stabbing each other."

"When we remove ego, we're left with what is real."

Looking at events from a larger, historical perspective gives us a more comprehensive, nuanced outlook that will prevent ignorance and arrogance from harming the Jews.

Despite the media's decades-long attempts at trying to frame its work as a "public service," it is anything but that.

The Palestinian territories have dismal economies that barely function, yet many of their leaders, administrators, and supporters flaunt lavish lives of sheikhs. How is this the case?

The West's approach to non-Western regions, politics, and societies is endangering some of its greatest allies, like Israel, which ultimately imperils the West.

The Palestinians' "war on reality" turns factual truths into "social facts" which appeal to emotions and personal beliefs in much more powerful, persuasive ways than do appeals to objective facts.

Even as the Palestinians' story has excessively evolved, they have mastered the art of the "throughline" — an essential element of fiction storytelling.

When Israeli leadership tells Hamas to "surrender or die," now the world knows (in case they didn't) that Israel means business.