Does Israel Seek Deterrence Or War

As a Zionist who knows that the world was 100% correct in 1947 when the United Nations voted to create the State of Israel, and a small d democrat who knows the world and Iranian citizens would be better off if Iran’s ruling Islamic theocracy was replaced by a ruling secular democracy, I have a Zionist fear that Israel’s attempt to restore a deterrence which protects Israel will create a war which will harm the State of Israel.

On April 1, 2024, April Fool’s Day, Israel did a foolish thing when it committed a military strike on Iran’s embassy complex in Syria. It was foolish for the following 2 reasons:

1) True Zionism would dictate that Israel’s first priority should be to eliminate the still active direct threat that successfully committed the Oct. 7 atrocity, the most violent attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Hamas, who had no representatives present in Iran’s Syrian embassy complex on April 1st. When questioned about not providing humanitarian aid to prevent disease, famine, and death in Gaza Israel has responded by saying it must have 100% focus on removing Hamas from Gaza, while also protecting itself during its Hamas war period of vulnerability to possible attack from other terrorist groups. So to attack a country not directly involved in the Oct. 7 attack while in the middle of a war with those directly involved with committing the Oct…