Enough of the government's betrayal, enough of these unfit to rule who do not govern for the people!
לכל עם ישראל,
קיים
פגם אידיאולוגי
מהותי בתוך הממסד הפוליטי הישראלי הנוכחי – שמאל וימין כאחד. הם מאוחדים על
ידי תשתית אידיאולוגית מתישה אחת, המעמידה את רדיפת צדק במקום השני הטוב
ביותר למשהו אחר לגמרי: הישרדות. היהודים למדו לשרוד אבל חווית הגלות השיגה
דבר אחד: כמו האיש המסכן שמאבד את היכולת להסתכל
מעבר לחיפוש אחר מהיכן תבוא פיסת הלחם הבאה, העם היהודי הפך אובססיבי עם
ההישרדות שלו. כל השאר זה הסחת דעת, נארעשקייט-שטויות! זה איזון מוטה.
הגיע
הזמן
לשנות את הממשלה שמעליבה את אזרחיה, מתעלמת מהצדק והחוק, מנפצת את כבוד
היהודים ומאשאת לעולם שדם יהודי הוא הפקר ומתנהגת כמדינת וסל של ארה"ב.
אדמת ארץ ישראל
לא שייכת לנתניהו או לקרי. היא שייכת לעם היהודי. הממשלה עושה רק מה שהאנשים מאפשרים לה לעשות.
מערכת
החינוך
הישראלית מתביישת ביהדות, בציונות ולאומיות. אני מוצאת את זה מטריד ומזעזע
שהישראלים יודעים כל כך מעט על זכויותיהם לאדמות ארץ ישראל ויותר מכך, הם
אינם מוכנים לנקוט עמדה והם מאפשרים לדיפלומטים זרים לרסק את זכויותיהם
וריבונותם מכל הצדדים. 30 מיליון מצרים יצאו לרחוב
כדי לעשות את מה שנכון למדינה, להדיח את מורסי והם עשו זאת מבלי לדאוג
שממשל אובמה ישאיר אותם יתומים! להם לא היה אכפת מה אובמה יגיד! 850,000
ישראלים ליוו את גופתו של הרב עובדיה למנוחתה האחרונה, אבל 5-6 מיליון
יהודים בישראל לא יכולים / לא יצאו לרחוב ויומרו לקרי
"עוף מפה, צא לנו מהעיניים, מהחיים שלנו ותפסיק להתערב ולארגן מחדש את הארץ
/ המדינה שלנו!? הארץ שייכת לעם לא לנתניהו, לא לקרי לא לאיחוד האירופי.
האדישות של הישראלים היא תופעה מטרידה שתעלה לישראל ביוקר.
שאננות ואדישות
הורגות, מבחינה פוליטית, רוחנית ומוסרית.
זה
לא רק בעניין
שחרור אסירים. זה גם בעניין לקיחת קרקעות מהיהודים ,שלפי החוק שייכות להם
לפי ההיסטוריה והחוק, שניתנות לרוצחים ולאלה שמסיתים לרצח יהודים ולאלה
שמשבחים ומעריצים רוצחי יהודי.
הפגנת ענק
ממול לכנסת צריכה להתקיים מייד כדי לשנות את כל מה שלא בסדר עם הממשל בישראל, כי זה מתיש.
נורית גרינגר
לוס
אנג'לס
To the nation of Israel,
There
is a fundamental ideological flaw within the current Israeli political
establishment
- Left- and Right-wing alike. They are united by a single, debilitating
ideological underpinning, which places the pursuit of justice as at best
second place to something else entirely: survival. Jews have learned to
survive but the experience of exile did
achieve one thing: like the poor man who loses the ability to look
beyond the search for his next crust of bread, the Jewish people became
obsessed with their survival. Everything else was a distraction,
narishkeit-nonsense! That is a tilted balance.
Time
to change the government that insults the
people, ignores justice and the law, smashed Jewish dignity and makes
sure the world knows that Jewish blood he hefker and acts as a vassal
state of the USA.
The land does not belong
to Netanyahu or Kerry. It belongs to the Jewish people. The government only does what the people allow it to do.
The
Israeli education system is ashamed of Judaism
and Zionism and nationalism. I found it disturbing and appalling that
Israelis know so little about their rights to the land and more so, they
are not willing to take a stand and they allow foreign diplomats to
crush their rights and sovereignty from all sides.
30 MILLION Egyptians came to the street to do what is RIGHT for the
nation, to oust Morsi and they DID it and did not worry that the Obama
administration will leave them orphan! They could care less! 850,000
Israelis followed Rabbi Ovadia's body to its final
rest BUT 5-6 million Jews in Israel cannot / will not come to the street
and tell Kerry "Get the HELL out of our life and stop meddling and
rearranging our land/country?! The country belongs to the people not to
Netanyahu, not to Kerry not to the EU. Israelis'
apathy is a disturbing phenomenon that will cost Israel HUGELY.
Apathy KILLS, politically, spiritually morally.
It's
not just about the prisoners' release.
It is the entire take of land away from the Jews, that rightfully
belongs to the Jews, per history and the law, and is given to murderers
and those who incite to kill Jews and
to those who adulate Jew murderers.
A HUGE demonstration in front of Knesset must
take place to CHANGE the WRONG becauseit is exhausting.
Nurit Greenger
Los Angeles
Dear Ari,
This is soooooooooo painful to read!
Yossi Klein Halevi says: we can only have peace if we, Jews, ALL Jews, believe that all the land belongs to us.
You say, "We cannot simply fume at Bibi, or Kerry, when well over
half a million Israelis
turned out to respect one man who died of natural causes, but only a
handful can find the time or effort to defend the
memories of thousands of innocent victims, whose honor is being handed
over to the brutal enemy which took their lives in the first place." You
are RIGHT.
You
say, "We must face up to the question: why did we come here? Why did we
sacrifice so much for this tiny land? Was
it to build a hi-tech ghetto - a banana-republic its anthem speaks of
the yearning of a "free people", but whose leaders act as
"heavy-hearted" slaves? Or did we come here for freedom, for justice
[for sovereignty for DIGNITY]"? You are RIGHT.
You write, "We, the people - the ISRAELIS – MUST make up our minds - because we only get the leaders, and the decisions,
we deserve." And you are RIGHT again!
The land does not belong to Netanyahu or Kerry. It belongs to the Jewish people. The government only does what the people
allow it to do.
The
Israeli education system is ashamed of Judaism and Zionism and
nationalism. I found it disturbing and appalling that Israelis know so
little about their rights
to the land and more so, they are not willing to take a stand and they
allow foreign diplomats to crush their rights and sovereignty from all
sides. 30 MILLION Egyptians came to the street to do what is RIGHT for
the nation, to oust Morsi and they DID it and
did not worry that the Obama administration will leave them orphan! They
could care less! 850,000 Israelis followed Rabbi Ovadia's body to its
final rest BUT 5-6 million Jews in Israel cannot / will not come to the
street and tell Kerry "Get the HELL out of
our life and stop meddling and rearranging our land/country?! The
country belongs to the people not to Netanyahu, not to Kerry not to the
EU. Israelis' apathy is a disturbing phenomenon that will cost Israel
HUGELY.
Apathy KILLS, politically, spiritually morally.
It's
not just about the prisoners' release. It is the entire take of land
away from the Jews, that rightfully belongs
to the Jews, per history and the law, and is given to murderers and
those who incite to kill Jews and to those who adulate Jew murderers.
A HUGE demonstration in front of Knesset must take place to CHANGE the WRONG because as you say, it is exhausting.
Nurit Greenger
***
Op-Ed: Israel
Must Stop Fighting For Survival
Published: Monday, December 30, 2013 10:10 AM
The people have the power to stop terrorist releases - all it takes
is a simple change of mindset.
Ari Soffer, A7 Managing Editor
Here we go again. Another "batch" of 26 convicted killers set to go
free in
a futile "goodwill gesture" to those who seek our lives;
another campaign by the bereaved families of their victims completely
ignored by the powers-that-be. Another betrayal of justice. More tears,
more heartbreak. It is so exhausting.
The
will of the people in all this is, of course, completely ignored.
Support for such "gestures" exists only among Arab nationalists and the
fringes of the far-left, and Israeli national consensus is staunchly and
vocally opposed. Yet there seems to be little the silent majority can
do other than shake our heads in dismay, powerless
to stop the impending, heart-wrenching abandonment of all sense, justice
and compassion. As we watch the tears roll down the faces of bereaved
mothers, siblings, sons and daughters, we witness the eternal truth of
the Jewish saying that "he who is merciful
to the cruel will ultimately be cruel to the merciful".
The
question on everyone's lips is: Why? Or rather, how? Because we
know the "why": American pressure. The real question is how a supposedly
"nationalist", "right-wing" government has caved in to that pressure
again and again, to the extent that it will betray its own citizens and
knowingly fan the flames of terrorism - tearing
open old wounds and guaranteeing new ones as the appetite for Jewish
blood is once again whetted. It just seems so bizarre, so unfathomable,
such a betrayal.
The
answer is actually very simple, and exposes the fundamental ideological
flaw within the current Israeli establishment. For the Israeli political
establishment - left- and right-wing alike - are united by a single,
debilitating ideological underpinning which places the pursuit of
justice as at best second place to something else
entirely: survival.
Zionism betrayed
Yes, the
Jewish people knows well how to survive.
Foreign conquests, exile, pogroms, inquisitions, expulsions, forced
conversions, holocausts - none of them could snuff out
the soul of the eternal, if weary, people of Israel. Any yet, the
experience of exile did achieve one thing: like the poor man who loses
the ability to look beyond the search for his next crust of bread, the
Jewish people became obsessed with survival. Everything
else was a distraction, narishkeit.
This
was out of necessity, of course. Indeed our ancestors are worthy
of much praise and admiration for surviving in the face of the most
unbelievable adversity. Their experiences bear testament to their iron
will, their deep faith and their unstinting dedication to us, their
children.
But
then came Zionism. The Hebrew liberation movement reignited the
flame of redemption, handing to their children, to us, the
responsibility to hope for more than mere survival - but for freedom,
justice and independence, after nearly two millenia of unjust slavery in
foreign lands.
While
the dream to return to Zion is as old as the Jewish people itself,
modern political Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish
nation, rose up from the ashes of vanquished ancient Jewish revolts
like a mythical phoenix, beckoning us to ride its wings to freedom.
And
so we did. The founding of the State of Israel was a thrilling moment
of liberation the Jewish people had not felt for thousands of years,
achieved through the blood, sweat and tears of pioneers, and more
importantly through the Grace of God. But even as our legs walked us to
freedom "we were as dreamers"; Zionism
was hijacked by small-minded people, and turned into merely another mode of survival - albeit a far more effective one than the ghetto walls.
So
today, the first stop for any visiting dignitary is not the Temple
Mount - for we would not want to provoke anyone by being seen to stake a
claim to the very root of our history here - but to Yad Vashem, so that
our leaders, Left and Right, can desperately remind the nations of the
world: "Look
at why we need Israel - we would be so weak and defenseless without it! Pity
us, and therefore judge us favorably!" And
all the while even our best friends smile awkwardly and shift their feet - for they know that if the Holocaust is the primary justification
for the State of Israel on land which another people claims is "stolen" then it is a pathetically weak one at best.
The phoenix's wing were clipped, the blood
of martyrs betrayed.
Instead
of decisively stamping out terrorism - for that could provoke
the nations of the world, and surely that would be the end of us - the
authorities look to "manage" the situation, while pacifying the masses
by "explaining" to us that what we are seeing is just a "terror wave"
and not
"a third intifada"
- leaving the pundits to make thoughtful faces and carefully, inanely,
pointlessly try to distinguish between two sides of the same coin.
Instead
of being given the means to fight
back, those living in front-line communities are made fully aware that
if they are ever stupid enough to defend themselves against Arab
violence they will face the wrath of the legal system.
To make up for it, we are pacified by a new government grant to
help us reinforce our car windows against the forecasted shower of rocks from our partners for peace. (We should, of course, be grateful for such generous
grants, but we must also recognize that within the context of the government's overall policy, it is merely another coping mechanism to
help us survive another day of directionless leadership.)
Instead of clearly and unashamedly insisting
on our claims to this land, we speak in terms of "security" and what is feasible to give up from a strategic perspective (never mind that, ironically, the
plans currently on the table appear
to contradict the most basic military
logic). A few token utterances about Jewish history in the
Land of Israel may escape the lips of our more "right-wing" leaders, but their knowledge of what is just and right is drowned out by the palpitations of their own
hearts. They know what is just, but survival comes first. So
Bibi hunkers down and digs in for one more year of survival against the Obama administration. Nothing more.
And so when
in the meantime the American overlords demand we satisfy the liberal fantasies of their current commander in chief - who staggers drunk
from a bitter cocktail of foreign policy failures and
his own vain and desperate quest, in spite of it all, to forge a "legacy" for himself -
our leaders rush to do his bidding. With
"heavy hearts", of course (and we will be urged to feel sorry for those heavy hearts in the next few days), but they do so because in
their minds we cannot survive without the US, and therefore we
do not have the luxury of standing up for what is right. Instead, we
buy more time with the blood of our dead.
The solution
But America is not to blame. Those who seek to deflect their fury onto
the Obama administration would do well to note how our government is equally eager to abandon justice through sacrificing the blood of terror victims to
the Chinese dragon.
So yes,
the problem is very real and very clear. But so too is the solution:
in a democracy, the people must shoulder responsibility for those they elect.
We, the people, have the power to steer the ship away from the looming
precipice. We must send a loud, clear message to the leaders of
this country that they are accountable to us. That we will not mindlessly vote based on some vague ideological preference but that
those who cast a vote in favor of something as abhorrent as this will lose thousands of our votes
along with their coveted positions. That
we
will not simply leave it to the families of the victims or a few
especially angry youths to demonstrate but will turn out in our hundreds
of thousands.
We cannot simply fume at Bibi, or Kerry, when well over
half a million Israelis
turned out to respect one man who died of natural causes, but only a
handful can find the time or effort to defend the memories of
thousands of innocent victims, whose honor is being handed over to the
brutal enemy which took their lives in the first place.
We
must face up to the question: why did we come here? Why did we
sacrifice
so much for this tiny land? Was it to build a hi-tech ghetto - a
banana-republic whose anthem speaks of the yearning of a "free people",
but whose leaders act as "heavy-hearted" slaves? Or did we come here for
freedom, for justice?
We, the people, need to make up our minds - because we only get the
leaders, and the decisions, we deserve.
Shalom,
Nurit
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