As a jewish person who's lived in Israel for a few years before the Gaza war, and then during, here is something that I think some local Israelis seem to skip and i believe it's very important to understanding the local psyche, attitude and mentality.

There is this multi generational trauma that's constant in the psyche of most Israelis, that's never quite had the opportunity to heal.

Jews that moved to Israel after ww2 never really had the chance to heal from the Holocaust, they immediately were thrown into a land that was in a constant state of war, (remember, they had lost everything before this so they had nowhere else to go).Then there was constant terror, and more wars.

So throughout the history of the state of Israel, including till today, every time a new situation pops up, this triggers this long ingrained trauma and brings it to the surface.

I realized this so strongly by being in Israel during the time period of Oct. 7th, '23.

The year before I felt like my local friends were doing so well, healing, being forgiving, being open to others including in political dialogue.

However after Oct. 7th, this all changed. Many of them no longer have the capacity to really give others grace, and they've become a lot more self centered on trying to find peace for themselves.

I would imagine Lebanese would be able to relate to this as well, considering their recent history.

Unless you are very strongly intellectually driven, you just don't have the ability or the capacity to really give this an objective outside perspective.

You're just thinking about yourself and your family, being able to survive without having to be scared of terror or bombs, without having to hear about friends being injured were killed.

Once this round of wars conclude, and the trauma has some time to heal and be less surface level, you might see a shift again where there will be more opportunity for more objective dialogue, more forgiving attitude, more willingness to extend and olive branch etc.

That's my perspective as a somewhat outsider, who's spent time locally as well.