9 Shevat 5779
15 January 2019
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
The Ras Karkar Junction, Deir Nizan, Shukba, Deir Abu Mash’al, Beit Ummar, Hizma, the Tapuach Junction: the list goes on and on. There were more than 25 locations at which Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with “rocks” and Molotovs yesterday.
In Jerusalem:
Yehuda and Tamar Kadouri, 70, were buried yesterday at Har Hanenuhot in Jerusalem. Found stabbed to death in their apartment Sunday in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, the police–as always–lurched about for any reason not to call their deaths terrorism. Believe it or not, their initial, outrageous, determination was that it was a murder-suicide.
However, as yesterday progressed, and more forensic work was completed, it became obvious that the Kadouris were murdered by a terrorist–probably the same terrorist who stabbed the young 15-year-old girl at the bus stop beside the Kadouri’s apartment on the same day.
TODAY’S BLOG:
“He prefers the life of the enemy over the life of my sons.”
The symbol of Israel’s Golani Brigade.
A follow-up to yesterday’s blog about Benny Gantz . . .
In response to the video that was revealed yesterday which displayed former IDF Chief of Staff and current Israeli politician Benny Gantz talking about how he happily put the lives of the Golani soldiers in his command in danger during the 2014 war because of his self-described elevated “morality”, the mother of four Golani soldiers wrote a letter to Gantz which has gone viral.
Here are excerpts from that eloquent letter:
Hello Benny,
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My name is Michal, a mother of six boys. Four of them have served as fighters in the Golani Brigade. Their love for the brown Golani cap and the Golani tree symbol were received from their uncles, my brothers, who proudly carried the brown cap on the shoulder.
Listen, my son [referring to Gantz], we are simple people of this country; my parents and my husband’s parents, Shalom, immigrated from France. I am a Jerusalemite who grew up in the walls of the Old City, trying to do good for our people and our country.
We are crying and suffering on Holocaust Remembrance Day, mourn for our fallen on Yom Hazikaron, and are excited on Yom Ha’atzmaut . . . We embrace the Bible Quiz, the Jewish youth movements, our children, the values of patriotism, heritage, love of the people, and love of man. More than these, our children were raised to love the land, give devotion and sacrifice to it, and to serve as fighters in the Israel Defense Forces.
In Operation Tzuk Eitan [the 2014 war with Hamas], there were two of them there in Gaza. When the rumors came about the burnt armored personnel carrier and the casualties [7 Golani soldiers were killed], our hearts burned . . . it was a price almost . . . too heavy to bear.
Our children returned from the war heroes, bearing on their shoulders the events, the sights, and the pain of friends who did not return alive.
I hear your words as chief of staff proud of morality, a distorted morality that means endangering my sons and their friends in Golani, Givati and Paratroopers, and all the fighters, and I ask myself “is it possible that a hair would have fallen from their heads or that their blood would have been shed because of consideration for our enemies?”
Our blood is boiling, the blood of fighting mothers, members of the brigade who are crying out to heaven. How I will explain this to my children, and how I will send them to fight, to the army that promised me ‘that the fate of my sons will be given to a commander who deserves it’?
When in practice he prefers the life of the enemy over the life of my sons.
We pray to our Father in Heaven to strengthen the defenders of Your people Israel, the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, and to send good advice to our leaders . . .
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Michal and Shalom Galil
“When in practice he prefers the life of the enemy over the life of my sons.”
Thank you to Michal Galil for saying what needed to be said.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.