Not because its people were weak, but because their leaders were fools. You’d think that after two thousand years of persecution, pogroms, and a Holocaust, the Jewish people would know better than to trust any politician with their safety. Yet here we are, history repeating itself under the management of bureaucrats who mistake red tape for security.
The founders of Israel built a fortress nation from the ashes of genocide. They turned deserts into cities and refugees into soldiers. And then, somewhere along the way, the suits and the speechwriters took over. The same people who could out-think anyone in business, medicine, and science somehow let their own survival instincts get outsourced to government clerks with rubber stamps.
Politicians told the people to relax. “We’ll keep you safe,” they said. “No need for weapons. Trust the police. Trust the army. Trust the State.” So ordinary citizens were turned into spectators in their own defense. They could fill out applications, take tests, and wait for permission to protect their families, while terrorists across the fence stockpiled weapons by the truckload.
Israel’s leaders took the one nation on earth that should have been armed to the teeth and turned it into a gun-free fantasy zone. One pistol per person. Fifty rounds. That’s not security. That’s paperwork with delusions of grandeur. The same government that armed farmers in 1948 now barely trusts veterans with a box of ammo.
Then came October 7. The alarms went off, and the politicians realized their “safety system” was a mirage built on arrogance and wishful thinking. The killers came, the people fought with what they had, and thousands died because their leaders were too cowardly to trust them with the tools of survival.
After the massacre, the government scrambled for headlines. Cut the waiting period. Double the ammo limit. Take a bow. Baby steps from men who still think regulations win wars. The truth is simple: Israel’s problem isn’t the enemy outside the wall. It’s the blindness inside it.
If any people on earth should understand the price of disarmament, it’s the Jews. Their history is soaked in blood from trusting the wrong leaders. Never again was supposed to mean something. Instead, it became a slogan polished by politicians who never learned how to listen.
I will never understand how simple survival became a political issue. Nobody should ever disagree on the right to protect oneself and their loved ones.
If Israel wants to live, it must arm its citizens, not its bureaucracy. The politicians failed. The people didn’t. It’s time to stop treating self-defense as a government favor and start treating it as the sacred right it always should have been.
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