Herzog lauds Israeli unity, says war on Hamas is between ‘absolute good’ and ‘absolute evil’

President Isaac Herzog says that Israel’s war against terror groups in the Gaza Strip is not morally “complex,” and is instead part of an international struggle to maintain free societies.

“Everyone talks about complexity, but this moment is not a complex moment. There is absolute good here and there is absolute evil here. There is light here and there is darkness here,” Herzog says.

Thanking the United States for its public support and military aid, Herzog adds: “We are not alone in this war. We are fighting the war as part of the family of nations – of all those who seek justice, peace and freedom – against an enemy that has proven that humanity and humanism are its enemy.”

Saying that there are “few moments in the history of a nation where there is so much at stake” as the present, Herzog adds that Israeli society has unified in the past 10 days, coming together despite religious and political differences.

“The brutal attack by our enemies was directed at the Jewish people, but did not distinguish among blood. There is hardly a home in Israel where the ripples of the painful tragedy we experienced have not reached,” he says.

“The depth of our shared grief proves: We are all one Israeli nation,” he says.

“We have a wonderful nation,” he adds, “a nation that knows it has no other choice, has no other land, and has no other country.”