Who is a victim of war?

Now another hot spot of war has opened up on the edge of the European Union (EU).

Last year's war flashpoint, when Russia entered Ukrainian territory with weapons, first with special military groups, and then with the army, has not yet subsided. The so-called Russian military operation in Ukraine has escalated into war.

On October 7, 2023, Israel experienced a rocket attack and an attack from land and sea. Also, without any declaration of war, and the targets of their attacks were and still are, to put it simply, mostly civilians. And likewise, the first attackers or aggressors are again supposed to be militant groups, not the army of an individual country. In Ukraine, Wagner and similar groups were the first to attack. In Israel, however, at least the attacks from Gaza, or Palestine and Lebanon were attributed to Islamic extremist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

The shortest end, with thousands of dead, wounded, tortured and ill-treated, is again the civilian population, including the most vulnerable part of the population, children. Children's and human rights, including through the conventions of the United Nations (UN), are trampled and despised in the fire of blind hatred and revanchism and the desire for foreign territory and foreign property, and most likely fueled by national, religious and state hatred and intolerance.

Whether these facts and the assessment of who is the aggressor and who is the victim will also take into account the fact of who first took up arms and crossed the borders of their territory and entered foreign territory with weapons, time will tell. Ukraine is already supported by the majority of EU and NATO member states. The judgments of the invasion, rocket fire and killing of Israelis, reminiscent of the Holocaust and genocide against the Jews from World War II, where most of the victims were civilians, including children, are only slowly getting their final image and also the final judgment in the international community.

  During all this time, ordinary civilians die, are tortured, displaced, in foreign captivity and wounded. And this in a social time when we should only have a civil society based on guaranteed human and child rights and protection, or legal protection of property. In addition, they should have a developed diplomatic activity, which will solve all conflicts between nations and countries in a peaceful way. Even such a society should, of course, have a professional army, which, at least theoretically and ethically, only takes care of the safety of its civilian population. This army should not carry out aggressive attacks on foreign territory and kill the population. It is also for this reason that the most likely countries through which attacks and incursions into foreign territory are carried out are increasingly being blamed on individual extremist military groups. And this despite the fact that, most likely, it would be difficult to miss rocket launches and armed groups of residents on their territory.