is by Micah Goodman in the Times of Israel. Available as a podcast or as an edited transcript.
Key points: "we need the Middle East to fear us and we need the West to love us. But it's a zero-sum game because everything we do in order to restore the fear in the Middle East will erode the love in the West. Well, this is what we're asking the lovers of Israel. Please break that zero-sum game. Stay with us with love while we restore the fear."
"We weren't attacked by a local militia. We were attacked by the Persian Empire. We were attacked by Iran."
"we're not the same Israelis that we were before the seventh of October, before Simchat Torah. This is what happened to us: For 12 hours, between 6:30 in the morning and 6:30 in the evening — roughly 12 hours — the State of Israel didn't exist in the area between Sderot and Alumim, in the area that surrounds Gaza. The State of Israel wasn't there. It wasn't there to protect the civilians who were massacred and butchered in their homes. ...this is how it looks like when Jews don't have a state. ...It looks like Kishinev."