Last week, IDF forces entered Nablus. The reason: securing the renovation of the Tomb of Joseph compound, which was vandalized by Arab rioters. "But as sons of kings. In this way we are privileged to restore the honor of the land and the people of Israel."
Criticisms from the left were heard immediately, "Peace Now" sought to oust the officer, and Zehava Gal-On even defined the style as "Hezbollah rhetoric" - no less.
But to the chagrin of Galon and her friends, it seems that the problem did not start with Colonel Zweig, but is much deeper and older.
"The fate of the State of Israel is in your hands. The eyes of the entire nation are on you at this fateful moment and pray for your victory and your safety. And may God be with you," said Southern Command General Yeshayahu Gavish on June 5, 1967.
Yes, even then we had Hezbollah rhetoric.
A day later, Uri Ben-Ari summed up the first day of the Six-Day War as commander of the Harel Brigade and said: " "We will hit it and defeat it. Soldiers! Our mission is to liberate entire Jerusalem."
I guess he too should have been ousted, with zero tolerance for a commander who speaks like that.
But why stop here?
Let us die immediately and publicly condemn Moshe Dayan as well, who read the Ben-Gurion Epistle at the end of Operation Kadesh: The third. "
And if we are already firing, then the Chief of Staff, Major General Bnei Gantz, will also be asked to relinquish the equipment after sending a special letter to IDF fighters on the occasion of the end of Operation Pillar of Cloud, in which he wrote: And we spoke loud and clear: we will stand firm against every enemy and play on our house like a wall in a way - that is what we have done and this is how we will continue to act. "
You must have noticed that I did not quote Ofer Winter ("God of Israel would please succeed in our ways, which we are going to fight for your people Israel against the enemy who despises your name"), but only complete secularists, some even leftists, who would believe.
Since our first day command as a people, that of Moses, who said when we came out of Egypt "Today you have become a people," the most effective speeches are those that speak of our belonging and identity.
They are the ones who not only determine what needs to be done, but also why it should be done.
What is legitimate at any time in any army in the world, is not legitimate in the eyes of the left here.
But in order to survive and for this survival to have meaning, for this life, we must condemn the condemners.
Because when we return the stones to Joseph's tomb, we also restore our control, our kingship, the damaged symbols.
And most of those who heard their commanders say these things, were motivated to act out of this belief.
Get stronger from them.
And he who does not believe in the importance of symbols, cannot be explained to him.
He probably suffers from a disability and his life is empty of meaning, and we have nothing but pity for him.
Were we wrong?
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