Ok, how do you win a war? You do it, by understanding your enemy, and understanding yourself, as the Chinese war strategist Sun Tzu, say.

So who are we? We are this illustrious culture, dating all the way back to Abraham. We have the most Nobel prize receivers compared to our size. We are rebellious and industrious. If there is a new interesting development somewhere in the world, you can be sure to see a Jew there.

But our less positive side is, that we can be a bit arrogant, calling non Jews Goy and things like that.

So who are the Iranians. The Iranians are much more like us, than we care to admit. They too come from this illustrious culture, they have given birth to heroes like Cyrus the great, and a lot of the things we take for granted, they invented.

In other words, they have a bit of the same grandiose understanding of themselves as we have, with good measure.

So what happens, when two cultures, who are a bit selfconcious meet at the battlefield? Well, the first thing that happens is, that we meter each other, to see who is the most illustrious.

If the other part does not recognize our supremacy, we will be offended and feel bad about it.

So in order for us to get the recognition we feel we deserve, we start pruning around and bumping our chest. If that does not work, we start shouting insults, to get attention. If that does not help, we start sending bombs on the other part. Get the idea?

A lot of the animosity of Iran is really just an attempt at being recognized as an equal.

And the truth is, they are equal in many ways. They invented the idea of goodness in Iran. They have had illustrious philosophers as we have.

So instead of just see this as a tit for tat, maybe we should try and understand them, so that we can live along side them in the future.

I get it, we are in a middle of a war, and we should not be naive.

But we should try and see it from their perspective as well, in order to win the war.

G-d bless the will to understand your opposition.