"Everyday Funeral ..." lamented Uri Zvi Greenberg during the events of 1936. In his harsh language, the poet described how the public in Israel becomes something apathetic to kill and the dead.
"Even killing without respite is already a habit among the people ... Is there no land of exile in which the blood flows so well?
Israel has already emerged from several times more severe waves of terrorism, the most difficult of which was during the "Oslo War" (the second intifada), in which more than 1,400 civilians and soldiers were killed, sometimes entire families.
That war, which began in 2000, was fought over the years in the book and at the home front, at intersections and on the way to schools, buses, cafes, pizzerias, the seam line and the front line, along and across the country, and was designed to crumble us from within.
The routine of terror then was unbearable: bereavement, orphanhood and pain, and he beat and beat us.
Once a night and once a day.
On Saturday and Saturday night.
He had no rules and regulations, and everything became possible.
One of the scenes of the attack in Bnei Brak, Photo: Coco
We are still very far from those days, but so, just like that - like last week - it started even then and it is forbidden to go back there.
In those days, the Sharon government waited long and bloody months, until it ordered the IDF to launch Operation Defensive Shield. Today the reality is even more complex: the threat is not only outside - from Gaza and Judea and Samaria, but also from within - Israeli Israelis Within us and with us.
The May riots last year were a wake-up call.
Not sure we learned the lessons.
Since the riots in the Jews of the cities involved, the incitement has continued not only from Hamas and the PA, but also here, in our backyard, within us, among Israeli Arabs, almost unhindered.
The elephant in the room we avoid engaging in is already present and significant, and is the root of all evil, and incitement and terrorism: the growing preoccupation of Israeli Arabs with the "Nakba" and the "right of return" - not only as a heritage, consciousness or theoretical matter, Real practical.
Mirrors of lack of governance.
Riots in Acre during Operation Wall Guard, Photo: None
It's time for action
In recent years, many Westerners in Israel have exaggerated the definition of their self-identity and omitted the Israeli component and identity from it.
They explain that first of all they are Palestinians and only then Israelis by virtue of their residence and citizenship.
Another part is more precise and defines itself not as an "Israeli Arab", but as an "Arab in Israel."
Meaning: belonging is to the place and less to the state.
Many Arab MKs reiterate this in media interviews. MK Iman Khatib-Yassin (RAAM), for example, defines herself as "a Palestinian who holds an Israeli identity card."
Joining this consciousness base is the almost unlimited availability of weapons in the Arab sector in Israel and in the Judea and Samaria territories. As long as there are weapons in the sector, there will be those who will seize it, whether as part of a criminal offense or as part of a national crime.
"Everyday Funeral," lamented the great poet Uri Zvi Greenberg 86 years ago.
It is forbidden to return there and we have it.
Do not be afraid, Israel.
Fear not, Government of Israel.
Now is the time for action rather than talk.
Of these we already had more than enough.
Were we wrong?
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