Slander his brigade that does not maintain the purity of weapons • The media has won and its promotion has been delayed • Now, the targeted thwarting of them as chairman of Yad Vashem is carried out in the same hypocritical methods • Opinion
A soldier of the nation.
Epic with them
Photography:
Dudi Vaknin
Two sons of families of Holocaust survivors on one anti-RPG weapon in the First Lebanon War, Battalion Commander Efi Eitam, the candidate for chairman of Yad Vashem, and I. In a moment of respite, he confesses: I am a soldier of the nation. "
His personal confession accompanies me as I watch the organized campaign against his appointment as chairman of Yad Vashem.
With them he was prepared for battles against the enemy, but not for a dirty political battle.
His path was paved for promotion.
From those on whom the "hermetic" bride sits. "For his heroic deeds in the Yom Kippur War, he received the exemplary medal with them. In the rescue operation in Entebbe, he commanded the Golani Regiment.
His punishment was that he did not humble the spiritual move that threatened the "enlightened."
As his dome grew and he grew old as a brigadier general, so did the defamatory campaign against him, in the same methods that they did for another brigadier general at the head of the battle battle dared to put the words "with the help of God."
Slandered his brigade for not maintaining "purity of arms."
The media and the dipstate won.
His promotion was delayed.
Up to eight to the commander of the prestigious formation in the north, others including Ashkenazi bypassed him.
Targeted thwarting
The assassination now targeted at Effie Eitam as chairman of Yad Vashem is carried out in the same hypocritical ways. In an ironic show, MK Yair Lapid appears: "Effie Eitam has extreme statements."
Which did not bother him when his father Tommy Lapid was appointed chairman of Yad Vashem, although he routinely incited against ultra-Orthodox and Arabs. So she transferred lists of Holocaust survivors from the organization for political use ahead of the election, to Lapid's party.
And who appointed Avital to speak out against Holocaust survivors against the hero of Israel?
Not my parents - Auschwitz and ghetto survivors, who spent their entire humble lives without knowing either Mrs. Avital or her organization.
Nor is the second generation I belong to, like the couple with whom their families were destroyed there.
In the heat of battle, a Jewish organization from abroad was also recruited against Brigadier General Eitam, some of whose representatives went up to the Muqata.
Arafat yes and with them - no!
The appointment of a brigadier general with them is now a national issue. Because below the attempt to thwart his appointment at Yad Vashem, the attempt is to compare the Holocaust to the issue of the purity of weapons and the morality of fighting in Israel. As a former general and current MK on the left, The statement indicates processes that are taking place in parts of Israeli society and that need to be sterilized.
National issue
When IDF soldiers are asked to answer at Yad Vashem the question of whether we too can degenerate into a Holocaust and become murderers, it is a retreat from the insight that the Holocaust stemmed from anti-Semitism and the desire to exterminate our people, in every generation. And that should be corrected now by striking at sin for our actions in war, against the enemy. All this is another reason for the appointment of Eitam as chairman of Yad Vashem.
He will have to work on the narrative expressed by Dr. Jacob Herzog in the mythological debate with the anti-Semitic historian Toynbee. Toynbee has tried to explain the persecution of Jews throughout the ages as historical faults, also at the fault of the Jews. Herzog, on the other hand, "A people alone will dwell."
The author is Lt. Col. (Res.) And chairman of the Almagor terrorist victims' organization