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Source: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/372616/israel-lives/
Israelis Show Us How to Fight, How to Live
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Kathleen Hayes - On my first visit to Israel, the ever-emerging stories about Oct. 7 continue to awe and humble me. Yet Israelis are not stuck in the horror of Oct. 7. They are getting on with living, and fighting the terrorists behind those massacres. War is an intrinsic part of life: unwanted, unavoidable, but now so clearly just. At first I'm startled to see so many soldiers and civilians - male and female - toting weapons. This is what it means to preserve, against all odds, a state for the Jewish people. Soldiers with automatic weapons at their hips coo over babies in strollers.