“The secular Israelis, the Hareidim, i.e. the Satmar Rebbe, and most of the world attribute the Israeli victories to having better trained, better led and better armed soldiers.”
What, so a miracle can’t be a neis nistar? It has to be in-your-face, rabim-beyad-me’atim in order for it to be with siyata dishmaya? How can anyone go through life without understanding that the Hand of Hashem is in everything, even if it seems to be merely teva? Or can something only be from Hashem if the right people think it’s the right thing…
Do you think that the Holocaust was somehow against the will of Hashem as well? (The outcomes, IMHO, of the two events could not be more different for the Jews- however, I wanted to pick something unequivocally negative for comparison.)
Just because an outcome may not be what you consider that Hashem wanted doesn’t mean that He was not in control- as, indeed, He is of everything. Saying that something happened merely because of good soldiers, etc completely undermines the constant awareness every Jew should have that indeed, Hashem is the (often invisible) Hand running every aspect of our existence.