Woe to that shame: "The party that built the country" is today an extreme left-wing party, denying its glorious legacy.
Her old age shames her freedom.
Instead of Zionist activism, it leads a confused and reluctant ideology that seeks to dry up settlement.
The new national priority map formulated by the Secretary General of Labor denies not only the Zionist heritage, but also the historical path of many of its founders.
Labor Secretary Eran Hermoni, Photo: Gideon Markovich
"Settlement in the Occupied Territories," as the Palmach of the Palmach - Bnei Maharshak, in April 1972, well identified, "will indeed complicate us. How?"
He asked his friends and explained: "Just as the root complicates the tree. The more it twists and goes deeper, the more it can not be detached. It is a desirable complication ... settlement is a root!"
(Courtesy of Hagai Huberman, from his book, "Against All Odds").
During the first Rabin government, dozens of Jewish settlements were established in Judea and Samaria, not only in the blocs. Ofra and Kedumim and Kiryat Arba, which "Labor" seeks to remove from the national priority map, were there. He explained that this settlement and the settlement in general were established to "transfer vital points in different parts of the country, from foreign ownership to the ownership of the Jewish people ... to deepen and penetrate into the inner regions of the country ...".
Simple and honest words.
Ben-Gurion was not prepared to give up Hebron in any way.
Even Yaakov Hazan of Mapam - once a partner of Mapai and now part of Meretz, made it clear that historically Hebron is closer to him than Ramla, and best of all distilled the words of Yosef Tabenkin: The non-ridiculous.
Security is for settlement purposes.
Not the other way around ... ".
Yigal Allon.
Promoted the establishment of Kiryat Arba // Photo: Moshe Milner / GPO,
The emerging map of the Labor Party forgets that the settlements, those in the blocs and those in the depths of the area, are not measured by the security and political bar alone. "A small Hebrew settlement between large Arab villages ... houses in one place, its fields in another, Arab fields in transit and ownership of the land is complicated," Moshe Smilansky described the early days of the mother of the colonies in Petah Tikva, in words like today written about Ofra and Beit El , Whose ground and political and security situation may be complicated, but much better than that of "Omelves" in its early days.
Smilansky, like Alon, and Ben-Gurion and Israel Galili, and Avraham Herzfeld, were not only concerned with the contribution of settlement to military security and the chances of its political survival. Ben-Gurion insisted on continuing to hold remote settlements in the Jerusalem mountains and the Negev and the Western Galilee. The existence of Yehiam and Gush Etzion also opposed the pure and simple security and political logic, but Zionism did not give up on them. It measured their value in a broader bar, which included Zionist and national values, and the spirit of the people and the question of borders. Today, this complex is called the "concept of national security." Negba, and Gush Etzion and Kfar Darom and Yad Mordechai and Mishmar HaEmek, like their successors in Benjamin and Samaria, were established not only to provide security, but mainly to realize Jewish existence and shape the borders of the state.
In Judea and Samaria, the settlements and settlement sequences also help security and the IDF's security routine.
They give our presence in our historical homeland a permanent dimension, not a weakness and ephemerality that invites terrorism.
Had it not been for the settlers in Judea and Samaria, in the blocs and in the depths of the territory, the IDF would have had to use several times larger forces to prevent the establishment of Hamastan in front of Gush Dan and the firing of missiles and rockets at Israel's narrow waist.
But first and foremost, and before that, this settlement, like its predecessors, arose for a much simpler reason, which is worth remembering and memorizing: it was established because the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, and security and policy serve the settlement.
Not the other way around.
