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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-899573
Fighting the Same War in Lebanon
(Jerusalem Post) Tuvia Book - 37 years ago, I was serving in the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon as a combat medic. Before we set out on our daily patrols and nightly anti-terrorist ambushes, our mission briefing ended with: "Our mission is to defend the northern Israeli communities (from Hizbullah terrorists)." Almost four decades later, I am in the same place, with the same mission statement. When I fought to reenlist in the IDF after the Oct. 7 massacre - becoming the oldest combat medic in the IDF - I would not have thought that I would still be serving on an emergency call-up almost three years later. Every week we are still losing our best. This is not even factoring in the many wounded soldiers who my unit treats on an almost daily basis, whose lives will never be the same again. We are still fighting Hizbullah, which is still entrenched in Lebanese society. Tens of thousands of Israelis are still unable, or do not want, to return home. Israel is the only country that is not allowed, by its "allies," to win a war.