The Wait

By Ehud Neor

All the Jews of Israel divided are into three parts. Those for the government and waiting for the attack. Those against the government and waiting for the attack. Those who have left politics behind and understand that war has been declared and is being conducted openly by Israel’s enemies and are demanding an all-out and unrestricted attack on those enemies. Those belonging to the first two groups have been blinded to reality by their will to power and spend most of their energy blaming each other for the sickening failure of October 7. They spill their wasted seed in weedy crevices, out of which nothing fruitful can bloom.

The third group is the vanguard of a new Israel. It is being led from below. The conscripts and reservists and field commanders doing the actual fighting on the ground are a cross-section of Israeli society. Among this group will be found religious and secular, leftists and rightists, hi-tech entrepreneurs and Wolt delivery boys, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, and more. Somehow, miraculously, this disparate group has united into a fierce and highly unified fighting force. Few are being converted to opposing ideologies, but a necessary openness towards each other is being displayed. Visceral hate dissipates. That is what allows for unity.

This group will emerge from battle and discover that they have no political representation. They will demand it and will receive it over the course of two or three election cycles. That is when the mighty Zion that the Jews have longed-for will arise.