According to Israel Today, the recent events are not just a random flare-up of violence, but a pause in a war that has never ended.
We are here to fulfill our destiny as a nation in our ancestral homeland.
This war started long before Hamas and the "Palestinian cause," and is rooted in a 1,400-year-plus Islamic jihad ideology that aims to destroy the Jewish state.
Author's summary: Israel faces ongoing war fueled by Islamic jihad ideology.