A Tzadik is someone who is righteous. Tzedaka means charity or good deeds. These both have their root in the word justice - צֶ֥דֶק
The bible says:
"Justice, justice you must pursue, so that you may live and possess the land that ADONAI your God is giving you." Deuteronomy 16:20
צֶ֥דֶק צֶ֖דֶק תִּרְדֹּ֑ף לְמַ֤עַן תִּֽחְיֶה֙ וְיָֽרַשְׁתָּ֣ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽךְ
Notice the word for justice is repeated 2x. That is a significant! God emphasizes that way.
In war the army - the commanders and soldiers - are prosecutor, judge and executioner. Death sentences are handed out and exercised with no "due process." The accused enemy has no "defence lawyer." There is no "judge" overseeing matters. The "execution" is carried out on the spot with no opportunity to appeal.
Israel doesn't start wars but once it goes to war it operates by principles of the laws of war. Israel goes above and beyond those laws and to great lengths to avoid civilian deaths.
Hamas, on the other hand, is the antithesis. Their ways are the direct opposite. They are the manifestation of "evil." Israel uses violence -- Hamas literally IS "violence."
That is why this war is different than a war to settle a dispute. This war won't determine whether the Palestinians have a territory or state. This war is not only to defeat an enemy. This is a war to blot out the enemy.
The historical tragedy is that Israel missed it's chance to do so.
1 Samuel 15:1-3 TLV
Then Samuel said to Saul, “ADONAI sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, listen to the voice of the words of ADONAI! Thus says ADONAI-Tzva’ot: ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. Now go and strike down Amalek and put all he has under the ban of destruction—so have no pity on him; but kill both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Sadly, a war cannot blot out "evil." A war cannot end "violence." As history shows, there is no war that ends all wars. The ideology of Amalek, Haman, the Nazis and Hamas will still exist after this current war is over.
Israel will forever need to fight. Israel will have to go on pursuing justice so that Jews may live and possess the land that ADONAI our God gave us.
Until ...
Isaiah 2:2-4
It will come to pass in the last days that the mountain of ADONAI’s House will stand firm as head of the mountains and will be exalted above the hills. So all nations will flow to it. Then many peoples will go and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of ADONAI, to the House of the God of Jacob! Then He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For Torah will go forth from Zion and the word of ADONAI from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and decide for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war any more.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Epilogue:
IRAN IS FIGHTING A GLOBAL JIHAD WAR -- A RELIGIOUS WAR AGAINST EVERYTHING THE WEST STANDS FOR.
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire
“The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi
Jordan Peterson breaks it down extremely well.
https://youtu.be/3s-22sMkYAs?si=nRWR67N9awGk6yVU
