The anonymous "bereaved father" quoted here does not understand that we are no longer in the Diaspora, and the "senior security official" sows submission and fear • Lieutenant Hadar Goldin's father responds to Yifat Erlich's column from last week
Lieutenant Hadar Goldin with his soldiers at the end of the route, April 2014
A week ago, Yifat Erlich wrote an article here called "Return Home," in which she expressed empathy for Leah, Hadar's wife and mother, who has been with the enemy for six years and eight months.
But Yifat also presented us with two "unknowns" referring to the "situation."
I remind everyone what it is about: two outstanding soldiers who are thrown at the enemy - Sgt. Oron Shaul, outstanding president of the Golani Brigade, and Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, commander of an outstanding team from the Givati Brigade. The State of Israel not only does not cleanse this disgrace, , Warms him, and now even stores him from Corona, without returning the soldiers home.This is the "situation."
The first anonymous person Yifat brought was a "bereaved father," who told her that he did not understand the Goldin family, since "there are millions of Jews in the world who have not been given the grave of Israel."
I have to talk to this "anonymous".
A person who does not understand the difference between the millions of massacred Jews, who were thrown everywhere and burned alive, and the IDF casualties held by the enemy, does not understand what we went through from an enslaved people in exile to a sovereign people in his country. He has an exiled mentality. Destroy it without a grave and without a score. We will return to it.
The second anonymous - "senior security official", who convinces Yifat that the Israeli government is doing its duty and sells it the essence of the concept that is supposed to reassure readers until three IDF representatives knock on their door.
He constructs a long explanation in which there is not a single sentence that cannot be refuted.
But worse, it violates three core values.
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The first value is that we bring the soldiers back from the battlefield - alive, wounded or dead.
Anyone who does not return the spaces from the battlefield will abandon the wounded and abandon life.
Ask Pollard.
The second value is that we do not succumb to terrorism.
Everyone knows that when Hamas wants to burn - it burns, when Hamas wants to fire a missile at a soldiers' bus - it fires, when Hamas wants to threaten the president - it fires a heavy barrage on the city of Sderot, killing a civilian sitting in his car, Moshe Feder.
When he wants to snip and kill a Givati soldier, Sgt. Aviv Levy, he will snip and kill him, and when he wants to flee the prime minister from both Ashdod and Ashkelon, he will flee. And the anonymous, "senior security official," explains: In the south. "This is exactly what Jabotinsky wrote in the anthem of the Betar movement" that silence is slime, no blood and no soul. "
When silence is false - it is not quiet, it is slime, and it leads to abandonment of blood and soul.
exactly.
We are succumbing to terrorism.
The third value is that we tell the truth.
In the words of a "senior security official", "the Israeli government has chosen not to release terrorists."
On Monday this week, the terrorist Mahmoud Shehadeh Abu Aisha was released from Nasirat, who had been in prison for 17 years and is now returning to Gaza.
Praying on the beach and preparing himself to "continue the struggle."
Dozens of such terrorists have been released every month since the Eitan Cliff War, all are released to Gaza, all are given positions in Hamas, all are integrated into the assassination mechanism.
There are those who burn, there are those who dig tunnels, there are those who train to attack from the sea and there are those who build bombs from the materials that Israel transports - agricultural fertilizer, irrigation pipes, irons for building.
And the senior figure is known to the people of Israel that Israel does not release terrorists.
This is what the senior factor does not want to understand - there is no silence here, and there is no gram of security here, and there is no sovereignty here.
There is slime, there is the feeding of all these values.
There is exile of the soul here, and here lies our real challenge, the challenge of freemen.
How do you get out of the shackles of this exile concept?
How do we get rid of her, before she destroys us?
The answer begins with the challenge of the essential understanding, that it all begins with the restoration of spaces.
It is not empathy that the Goldin family needs, but mobilization for initiative - to bring the soldiers back from the enemy, in the way we decide.
We, the freemen.
The "senior security factor" represents the opposite: the self-enslavement, the thought.
When you look for the excuse that allows you to do nothing, while our values lie in the dirt, you continue to be enslaved.
Bringing space to the grave of Israel is the effort that is based on the ability to be sovereign, to be free.
It is engraved in Halacha, it is imprinted in IDF values.
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Yifat Ehrlich's article captured this turning point in the calendar: leaving Egypt, creating the memory of the Holocaust, going to independence.
Before we gain independence, we remember the IDF casualties. In this way, through our lives, filth was imposed: the abandonment that we abandon our soldiers as an enemy to the enemy. How do we reach independence when the enemy holds our dead and blackmails us, and we come to terms with this blackmail? She is this? And
we will return to yesterday, to Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day. The late Rachel Levin was a fighter in the Kaunas ghetto and a partisan in the forests.
A few years ago she met me and grabbed me by her iron hand.
A 90-year-old woman. She said: When we were in the forest with the partisans, one of the boys wounded us and we had to leave him in the forest.
He was the son of a doctor and his name was Goldin, and he was very similar to your son.
You remind me of what I can not forget.
Do not give up, you must return the soldier's citrus, because otherwise - what's all the difference?
Rachel Levin has passed away, I hope her legacy and courage will shake the bereaved father, who does not understand the difference between sovereignty and the Diaspora, and the senior senior security official, who is intertwined with submission and fear.
When we bring our soldiers back from the battlefield, we will all understand.
shishabat@israelhayom.co.il