by Dror Eydar
What has the death
culture that surrounds us sought to sell in the past hundred years? Look
around: there are no Jews in Iraq and no "territories" in Syria, and
nevertheless the angels of death gleefully slaughter each other. No
science and no industry and no inventions that will benefit humanity.
Just death, and it's wrapped in a thick layer of damned political
correctness that has distorted our thought process. Dozens of
organizations stand up for the rights of the emissaries of the death
culture while we are stunned by the additional absurdity that crosses
the bounds of tolerance. "Just as long as we don't associate Islam with
terrorism" has been the line of the Obama administration since he was
first elected and up through the catastrophic embrace of the Fatah-Hamas
unity government. The abduction of the three teens Gil-ad Shaer,
Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrach began when humanity's healthy
consciousness was hijacked. If we don't realize that the executioners
who pack the condemned into cattle trucks and lay them by the dozens or
hundreds in ditches and put them to death amid devilish ululations -- if
we don't get that this bunch is operating on our borders, and that its
successes encourage our own local death culture, we will have to pay
heavier prices in the future.
Action
We must employ full
force against the emissaries of the death culture, those who aid them,
their military and civilian infrastructure, their sources of funding,
their families, their clans, and anyone who knows something but just
nods his head and keeps quiet. We know the argument that keeps us
emasculated: "It will only increase tension and give an incentive to
terror and strengthen the cycle of bloodshed." Not at all. The culture
of death doesn't need incentives -- it kills and murders and kidnaps,
because that's what it is. Perpetuum mobile. It's a shame to go on.
Instead of trying to understand, we should look at it as a natural
phenomenon. No one negotiates with cancer cells -- we fight to dig them
out at the root. If new ones appear? We'll fight again. And if, heaven
forbid, again? We'll fight again. That's our fate. In the past 150 years
we have learned to grasp a scythe with one hand and a sword with the
other. Up until now we've managed all right, thank God. Our neighbors
and all the saints of the death culture will learn that we aren't afraid
of it, and we aren't afraid of close-up photos of cut-off heads and
spilled guts. They are the ones who should be afraid of us and of their
own deterioration, because that culture will bring destruction only upon
themselves.
The families
From time to time we
hear despairing remarks about the state of the young generation and how
idealism is fading, about spreading materialism and "Big Brother"-style
reality shows and all the rest. But then larger-than-life characters
appear who don't keep their distance but rather give us courage to live
and believe, and even in their grief give the entire nation strength. In
this case, these were the mothers and fathers who stood up and reminded
us of life truths. If we want to live -- and we do -- this is the way,
the example we should follow. The rest of the complaints and the debates
are transitory foam on top of the deep currents inside us that are
stronger than any horror. These mothers even faced the world, in one of
the most hypocritical places on earth -- the U.N. Human Rights Council
(rights that include everything except the right of the Jews to a single
independent state and to defend themselves.) And there, in that place,
they spoke for all of us, throwing the truth in the impassive faces of
Israel's persecutors. That is why Israel has embraced these families so
strongly.
Not only to comfort them, but also in thanks.
The settlements
Aah, the accusers said,
they're settlers, so it's understandable and there is room to explain,
and anyway they brought it upon themselves, and all sorts of other
stupid remarks that only Jews would know how to fling at each other,
even when at the gates of the death industry.
But that's just it --
we're all settlers. Not just in the hills of Samaria and Judea, but also
in Tel Aviv. In the eyes of our neighbors and some parts of the world
we are all people who stole a land that wasn't theirs. This blood libel
is spread every day by anti-Semites and haters of Israel, as well as by
useful idiots among us. There's nothing new under the sun. But this is
the truth: We are settlers because we returned to settle our
forefathers' inherited land. It's simple. This country was a wasteland
that waited for its rightful descendents for 2,000 years, like a mother
keeping her milk for her true children, like a woman waiting endlessly
for her lover who disappeared.
Various conquerors and
nomads from the four ends of the earth have arrived in this country. But
since we Jews were exiled, no other sovereign entity has sprung up in
this land. What would this country be if it weren't for the Jews? What
would Jerusalem be without the Jews? The groups of strangers never
wanted to compromise with the Jews who survived extermination and came
home after a long exile. Even today they refuse to compromise and seek
to oust us from the entire country. From Tel Aviv, too. This murder is
the latest in a long line of murdered Jews, the cursed fruit of the
death culture of our neighbors. The fight for Israel is our fight for
life. In the face of a culture that has sanctified death, the boys'
families showed us the sanctity of life and devotion to the land of our
life.
Prayer
Israeli society
discovered at the height of the matter an ancient weapon in the history
of our nation: prayer. The People of the Book believe in the written and
spoken word, it its power to imbue the skies and build on earth; to
pierce the heavens and mainly to rejoin those who are separated. Singing
in a group is also prayer. Some were startled by this religious
awakening, but most of us prayed, each in his/her own way and style. The
legitimacy given to public prayer won't dissipate; it will remain. The
purity of prayer will restore -- if not the dead, then at least those
left behind, letting them cling together to the power of the ancient
words and remember where we came from and where we are going. Even if it
seems like the door is shut and the decree has been made, it is
accepted in the tradition of our people that: "Even if a sharp sword
rests upon a man's neck he should not desist from prayer." It's a matter
of culture. And belief. And in the end, we will remember the deep,
courageous words of Rachel Frenkel, Naftali's mother: "God doesn't work
for us."
Revenge
We still don't know
exactly what happened, but in sane places people don't die from flagging
down a ride. No sane place carries on a hypocritical dialogue about the
necessity of hitchhiking while our boys' blood is spilled. No sane
place indirectly justifies the bitter fate of these youths, our
children.
Don't preach, the ones
who always preach against us in favor of our enemies will say. Don't
listen to them and to the castrating talk. We are allowed to be angry
and impassioned about the murder of our children and an entire country's
descent into madness. We are definitely allowed to seek revenge. We are
the sane ones, not them.
I always wondered why God asks
Adam in the Garden of Eden why he ate the forbidden fruit, and then asks
the woman, but doesn't ask the snake -- he metes out immediate
punishment. Here is the answer: We don't ask snakes why they bite. We
cut off their heads.
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=8939
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