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DEAR WORLD: I DON’T CARE

Oct 30, 2023, 12:43 PM
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I don’t care that you sympathize with Hamas

I know you wouldn’t tolerate any of the things they did to us if they would’ve
done it to you

I don’t care that you’re outraged by Israel’s response to the massacre more than
the massacre itself



I know you would do everything to eliminate such pure evil if you experienced it
yourself

I don’t care that this doesn’t fit neatly into your carefully constructed
narrative of ‘Israel as aggressor’ and ‘Palestinian as victim’

The truth hurts sometimes, but hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your
feelings

I don’t care if you think we are at fault, that we had it coming, that Hamas’
actions’ didn’t occur in a vacuum (or to deny they ever happened)

If you feel that the poster of a kidnapped child hurts your cause, maybe yours
is a lost cause

I don’t care about your calls for a premature ceasefire, about your demand that
we provide them with electricity, that we stop fighting for ‘humanitarian
reasons’

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What of a humanitarian gesture to release our 230+ hostages – elderly, children,
babies – snatched from their cribs?

I don’t care that you’ve rallied for Palestine as part of your march for LGBTQ
rights, trans rights, workers rights, socialism, climate change,
intersectionality, Black Lives Matter, fighting Islamaphobia and ‘all forms of
racism’

Your gullibility would be laughable if it wasn’t so hypocritical. None of those
things exist under Hamas

I don’t care that you ‘love Jewish people – just hate Israel’, that you have
some friends that are Jewish, that maybe you’re ethnically Jewish yourself – and
therefore you’re entitled to levy every libel in the playbook against us

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Words matter. They lead to actions. When a lie is repeated often enough it’s
accepted as truth. You are laying the groundwork for more attacks against us

I don’t care that you wave the flag of ‘human rights’, that you’ve become
overnight experts in international law, that you shout fancy slogans you don’t
understand such as proportionality, occupation and apartheid

Your humanity is selective. In your mind, human rights don’t apply to us because
we are undeserving. You didn’t speak up when our women and children were
horribly assaulted

I don’t care if you think we are colonialists, imperialists and settlers and
that we should just go back to where we came from

We are back to where we came from

I don’t care if you believe in a one state solution, a two state solution, a
federation, an internationalized Jerusalem or any other theory drawn up in your
ivory tower

We won’t readily hold out our necks and endanger our lives in order to satisfy
your thought experiments and placate your conscience from afar

I don’t care if you consider yourself anti-Zionist but not antisemitic

We’ve seen enough Jews around the world attacked over the last 3 weeks under the
guise of ‘anti-Zionism’

I don’t care that you think we are too powerful, too technologically advanced,
too sophisticated

If we didn’t build ourselves up to this point we’d get eaten alive by Hezbollah,
Islamic Jihad, Iran and Palestinian terrorism

I don’t care that you blame us for 1948 refugees, for the fact that they have no
state, for the keys that they wave in their fantasy of ‘right of return’

Three weeks ago we got a glimpse of what that ‘return’ looks like and what it
means for our children

I don’t care if you think we aren’t real Jews, that Zionism has nothing to do
with Judaism, that Jews are a religion and not a nationality and so we deserve
no state

Your denials have zero impact on the strength of our ideals and the
self-affirmation of our identity

I don’t care that you accuse us of flaunting the myriad of UN resolutions,
inquiries and statements

They reflect more on the institutional decay of the UN than on us

I don’t care about your media coverage, the lies, the equivocation, the
acceptance of Hamas talking points and statistics

You echo chamber is just a another weapon in their strategic arsenal

I don’t care that you accused us of bombing the Al Ahli hospital

It was only a matter of time before you found a symbol for Israel’s wickedness.
The subsequent retractions were a fig leaf once the truth emerged that Islamic
Jihad was responsible and that the hospital is still standing

I don’t care that you see us as a criminal state, a terror state, usurpers, baby
killers, Christ killers, Khaybar Jews or any other depravity that exists in your
mind

Your libels lay the groundwork for our dehumanization. Rings a bell. We will
fight it

I don’t care that you’ve inverted the truth by accusing us of genocide

If positions were reversed and Hamas held the power we do now, you’d see what a
genocide looks like

I don’t care that you’re angry, boiling and outraged

I don’t care that you’re glued to your TV screens and Telegram channels

I don’t care that you’re mad

I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your
slogans

We won’t die silently the way you want us to

For the first time in 2,000 years we are organized, we are motivated and we will
defend ourselves

We fight for light over darkness

Morality over evil

Not that it matters to you – but we will stick to the rules and hold the high
moral ground not because you expect it from us, but because they are a value for
us

We will do so ethically and thoughtfully, for we are the People of the Book

Our power and strength are our necessity, because the alternative for us is:

Be’eri, Kfar Aza, Pittsburgh, Toulouse, Farhud, Hebron, Birkenau, Belzec, Babi
Yar, Kristalnacht, Kielce and Kishinev

Do you think for a moment that we would return to that reality just to make you
feel a little better?

You are deeply mistaken…

World,

For so, so long, I really, deeply cared

I cared about fitting in

I cared about what you think

I cared about being a model citizen

I cared about setting a personal example of how a tiny people in a tough
neighborhood could still be a Light unto the Nations

How the world’s oldest minority – now a majority here – could treat its own
internal minorities par excellence amidst the complicated and messy reality of
ethnic conflict

How we could painfully dismember parts of our homeland and offer them on the
platter of peace to Palestinians that want neither peace nor some parts (they
want all of it)

How we could dazzle you with USB sticks, drip irrigation, operating system
kernels, Nobel Prize winners, swallowable medical cameras, deep tech, quantum
mechanics, generative AI and cures for disease

But now I’m finally accepting that you don’t care

You never did

You don’t see and you don’t hear

And because I cared about what you think so much, that so deeply hurts

But you don’t have my best interests at heart

You take issue with my base identity, with what I represent

Don’t expect me to wait for your approval this time

It doesn’t matter what I do, you’re not going to change

It doesn’t matter how I act, because your issue is with who I am

Now I’m going to block out your noise, and do what it takes to win this war

Today
Finally
I no longer care

About the Author
Avi was formerly a news writer at the Times of Israel. Originally from
Australia, he served in the IDF and today works in Israel's thriving Hi Tech
sector in Tel Aviv. He lives near Modi'in with wife and 3 kids
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