While it is certainly true that Hashem loves His children, how can he simply deny reality to (himself and) his child that the rockets are a terrible danger, Hashem yishmor? There is no guarantee that there would be no more rockets. There is no guarantee that Hashem would continue to perform the nissim that He has.

“He fell asleep fifteen minutes later and I thought about all the kids across the country who have been traumatized by the war of the last few weeks and how the sirens they are hearing will effect them for life.

(That word should be “affect”, not “effect”.)

“And how it’s part of growing up as a Jew.”

This is terribly wrong. Growing up in a culture of Zionism and war, even more so when that war had hit close to home, R”L L”A, is not at all “part of growing up as a Jew”, though it is, unfortunately, part of growing up as an Israeli.

To be clear, growing up as a Jew is growing up in the way most conducive to being and becoming a Torah Jew, not at all necessarily to grow up in Israel, especially if they are at war.

May Hashem keep all His children safe.

The same Gemara says HaShem also regrets creating the Chaldeans, the exile and the yetzer hara. Seems HaShem has a LOT of regrets… and pretty big ones too, no? Golus? The yetzer hara?

It is, of course, impossible for HaShem to have “regrets” (chatara) at all. One, “regret” is a human emotion. To ascribe human qualities to HaShem is a form of avodah zara. Two. as we know, “His work is perfect, for all His ways are just.” To imply that HaShem has “regret” would imply something less than perfection in Him. Third, sefer Bereishis tells us that HaShem spared the life of Yishmoel! If He “regretted” creating him, why then did he rescue him from sure death? Did the HaShem make a mistake? Dis He not know how Yishmoel would afflict His beloved Yidden?

Yet the Gemara does say “regret.” Given the above, how then are we to understand this? The MaHaraL offers an explanation in Gevuros HaShem: these things themselves have no independent claim to exitence. Yishmoel’s existence (in this case) is utterly dependent on an EXTERNAL (to them) purpose and without that purpose, HaShem would not have created them.

Then what is this purpose? Why does Yishmoel attack us? To get us to build more tanks and bombs and machine guns and iron dome missles? To make us a mighty warrior nation that conquers land and subjugates people, killing thousands in the process? NO!!! “Some in chariots and some in horses but WE remember the Name of HaShem our G-d” Yishmoel’s purpose — the reason he makes war on us — is to cause US to do Teshuvah!

May klal Yisroel throw away the tools of war, the tools of Eisav, and turn their hearts to their TRUE Guardian who neither slumbers nor sleeps.

The appropriate answer, I believe, is simply that Hashem tells us in the Torah that He loves us. This is not as immediately convincing to a child (or an adult). It takes a lot of faith. But it is the authentic Jewish response, I believe.