In the book of Proverbs, it is written, do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice.

There is no doubt that this verse, and on top of it the deep and ancient Jewish value heritage, reached the ears of the IDF spokesman in Arabic.

Why then did the pointless joke in the cartoon above come out from under their hand?

In the cartoon, the head of Jihad Nahallah talks to his subordinates in Gaza and asks: Where are the guys?

We do not know what the source of the lack of values ​​is, but we ask ourselves whether the spirit of bigotry that has been present here recently, and which has already proven many times in the past that it does not recognize Israel's basic values ​​despite its boasting of its religiosity (For example, the Torah's prohibition on uprooting fruit trees while it uproots Palestinian olive trees many times), we ask ourselves, then, whether the signs of this fanaticism, for example, contempt for the enemy, hatred, revenge, intransigence, seep into our value bloodstream, to the IDF? Think not, and yet think that the above joke requires a warning.

In our estimation, Israel was in this round as a step away from an all-out war, full of sorrow and pain for all parties; A war that was avoided because of Hamas' choice of the Palestinian internal interest, over the regional interest of the hate front established by Iran against Israel (see about this in today's opening article). Therefore, the fickleness of the jokes as it is also described in the verse from Proverbs, was supposed in one way or another to reach the hearts of the IDF spokesperson in Arabic, as well as the need to stick to the thousands of years old values ​​which are also the values ​​of the IDF, and the IDF has proven this many times. not contempt. not hatred. not vindictiveness. not opacity.