What bloody hobbies do you have that allow you to connect with traumatised IDF soldiers David? No on second thoughts don’t answer that! It is of course a self fulfilling prophecy in a sense. The more belligerent the responses from both sides the more the reality becomes aligned with expectations. 

Your summary is so illuminating but of course a huge task to work with people’s trauma. I don’t blame Israel for being so hyper vigilant with the neighbours it has. And yeah I know there are other politicians in Israel who may be even worse. Ironically I was reading some Gabor Mate last night. Himself a survivor of the holocaust as a baby…of Jewish origin…spent his whole life undoing the traumas of his childhood. In fact he and netanyahu are like the polar opposites. Keep thinking about those little Israeli kids captured by hamas and my heart breaks for their parents. And then the Palestinian kids. All of them just increasingly broken in spirit. Nothing else…