To all who think that Hashem doesn’t directly control wars -I’ll bring some proofs.
I’m not even going to talk about the six-day war.
Let’s talk about more recent conflicts.
How about the First Gulf war? Why did Pres. Bush stop from going into Bahgdad? His decision cost many lives to be lost later on. His General said to proceed to conquer the country and he didn’t listen. (Perhaps) this was Hashem’s decision – so the Pres did something against common sense.
Lebanon war: Israel could have easily taken it over, but instead retreated and abandoned their long time allies -the Xians for no reason. They constantly have problems with that front. Again a country doing something against common sense. Why?
Then Israel did it again when they went into Gaza -they just left. Why? Not a drop of common sense.
If anyone doesn’t see the Yad Hashem in all these instances -it’s because he/she is living with their head in the ground, like the ostriches.