Israel’s northern border is not merely a line drawn on a map: It is the meeting point between two opposing worldviews. On one side stands a state seeking to live in peace and to guarantee the security of its citizens; on the other stands a military arm of the Iranian regime whose very purpose is to threaten that state’s existence.

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In practice, Israel faces two options.

The first is to continue managing periodic rounds of conflict with a terrorist organization that strengthens itself between wars, while attempting to extend the time between each confrontation. This option effectively preserves and legitimizes the reality of recent years, one that enabled Hezbollah to recover, expand, and grow stronger.

The second option is to change the geographic and military reality by pushing Hezbollah beyond the Litani River and eliminating the villages in the zone between it and Israel’s northern border, thereby significantly reducing the threat of a ground invasion into the Galilee.

These are not the only two options and it is terrifying that people think this way. This is an inherently extremist, exterminist world view make no mistake.

Does this sound like a healthy way to see other human beings? To attempt to understand resisting forces of “evil” that appear to be lovecraftian in their indecipherability? The bluntness of this world view is a selfulfilling nightmare.