The last column of the municipality of Linor in "Israel Hashavua" (September 17) dealt with the Minister of Communications, Yoaz Handel, and among other things, his tendency to mention that "Ben Gvir did not serve in the army" (when the truth is well known to him) was mentioned, mainly to mark the difference between the good and enlightened right. , "The Zionist warrior and lover of Israel" of its kind - compared to the dangerous and dodging right - of its kind.
Handel, who sits in a coalition with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, declares on the radio that he prefers Walid Taha and Ra'am over me and my comrades, who bears ministerial responsibility for deepening the loss of governance in the Negev and Galilee and the lax response policy To others.
But demagoguery also needs to set boundaries from time to time, and in my case the boundary passes in my presentation as a dodger.
I do come from a right-wing family (by the way, not religious), but my mother, the late Shoshana, from the Kurdish neighborhood of Jerusalem, not only joined the Irgun as a teenager and was even arrested by the British, but also served in the IDF as an officer. He fought in all the Israeli wars, and my brother Shai joined the Nahal nucleus in Sde Boker.
I, too, was supposed to continue on this path, but my ideological activity, the one I started at the age of 14, when I participated in countless demonstrations, put me in the sights of the State Attorney's Office.
Yes, these are my love and care for the people of Israel that have been shaking among political elements like Handel.
The days were the days of Oslo, and the same elements heeded the appeals of the people of the extreme left, and in fact prevented me from serving in the army.
I will not forget the conversation with the commander of the recruitment bureau at the time, who told me that my views prevent the IDF from recruiting me. "So you are actually saying that you are a political army?" They applied and demanded to prevent my enlistment, and the IDF agreed to them.
No hunger strike I held for three days in front of a recruitment bureau helped.
Inquiries and pleas did not help, including an exciting letter written by the late mother Shoshana to the then chief of staff, who waited for an answer until the day she died - in vain.
Considering that the chief of staff was then Ehud Barak, it is also clear why.
Having no choice, I continued to serve the people of Israel in a different path, and I have not stopped since.
I was persecuted by Shai Nitzan and political elements because of my love for the country.
I moved to Hebron about 20 years ago as an emissary of the people of Israel, and in a series of bills I submitted from the day I entered the Mishkan, I seek to give back to soldiers and police and allow them to operate freely and without restrictions (the same restrictions imposed on them by the government).
All this, however, does not prevent Handel and his ilk from continuing to cast mud on me to cover their shame.
But these are other days, and the public has come to know me beyond the demagogic demonization that Handel is a partner in, which is why he has been criticized for the unfortunate interview in which he admitted, bluntly, that he prefers to support terrorism over Zionist-loving Israelis.
That's the whole truth, Handel, and everyone sees it.
Adv. Itamar Ben Gvir is an MK from the "Religious Zionism" faction and chairman of "Jewish Power" "So you say you are a political army?", I asked the commander of the recruitment bureau, who admitted that the problem was my opinions. The left did appeal to the IDF to prevent my enlistment
