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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/silver-linings-in-an-ongoing-nightmare/
Silver Linings in an Ongoing Nightmare
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - During a meeting with a group of Jewish leaders on a solidarity visit to Israel on Tuesday, one of them asked me for some "good news." Amid the ongoing nightmare of Oct. 7 and a war we have yet to decisively win, much about this country remains inspirational. Our people are widely resilient, competent, wise and patriotic. We rebuilt our ancient homeland in spectacularly unpromising circumstances, focused innovation and inspiration to make it thrive, and have been fighting as one to defend it and restore its security through six hellish months. 3/4 of the terrorist army that Hamas established next door, and which Hamas believed Israel would never have the guts to confront, has been dismantled. The IDF is battling Hamas gunmen in their death-trap tunnels. Israel has to dismantle the Hamas army so that we, as victors, get to write the history of this war, and to emphasize that Israel destroyed a terrorist army widely supported by the Gaza populace, in a conflict murderously imposed upon it by the government of a territory from which Israel had withdrawn. Somehow, this remarkable people of ours, hundreds of thousands of whom constitute its army, has managed to both fight the war and maintain some semblance of what used to be normality. The writer is the founding editor of the Times of Israel.