Opinion | Revenge is not a bad word Israel today

"We have no mercy and no sense of revenge."

This is how Shlomi Zebralo, the brother-in-law of Rabbi Avishai David Yechezkel the 14th, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Bnei Brak, opened his remarks.

The remarks were made to Esther Hayut, who chaired the panel that discussed the demolition of the killers 'homes from the attack, and were a prelude to a plea that Zebralo faced, to allow the State of Israel to operate the procedure - set out in law anyway - and likely save many Jews' lives.

This video, a link to which can be found on the Facebook page of my friend Alon Malik, shocked me in several respects, and is a symbol of the loss of the compass and the value anarchy in which the State of Israel operates.

The internal Israeli conflict revolved around a scale of values.

Every video like the one that Tori deals with, or one that documents the frightened experience of IDF soldiers, every discussion in the Supreme Court and all the false information that reaches the citizens through the media - all these are different expressions for one question: Who are we Israelis? Do our culture hold national values? , Conservative and Jewish, or are we an international exemplary company committed to a universal set of values ​​relevant to the entire world population?

In his disgust and pity I am proud to stand by Shlomi Zverlo, and regardless I regret the statement "We have no feeling of revenge", because what I long for is exactly the action known in the mouth of the ruling elite as "revenge".

I fenced the word in quotes, because the "correct" word distorted and claimed the concept in a false sense, made it a sign on a door.

The people from Rehavia and Neve Ilan convinced us that behind this door, violent, human-eating monsters are gurgling, just waiting for someone to knock on it.

I deny this assertion.

The need for revenge, not only is not foreign to a white culture, on the contrary, is a first-class survival mechanism.

It is the fuel that drives the mills of justice and it is a worthy, moral and right human need.

And for the avoidance of doubt, I will describe exactly the correct course of events: once the identity of the terrorist has become clear, his house will be destroyed within 24 hours.

The move will be based on a legal structure that the Knesset of Israel will decide on, and as part of which there will be no way to delay the demolition.

Laws mistakenly referred to as "High Court bypasses" will protect the bulldozers. The demolition will be quick, rude and blind. The punishment will be collective by definition, and one that is disproportionate with deliberate intent. Yitzhak Rabin, and from now on only the newspapers will be able to read about the State of Israel.

I do not intend to try and market the conduct I have described here.

I will not provide explanations as to how it aligns with the values ​​of humanism, tolerance and human dignity - because it is not.

Deterrent punishment and expulsion forever express a renunciation of the values ​​in the light of which the elites in Israel today operate, and represent a different scale of values: Jewish-Torah and national.

Shlomi Zebralo does not stand alone.

Two million Israeli citizens who have been expelled from the borders of Israeli legitimacy, and whose ballot papers have been swept away, stand by him and demand revenge.

We know what is on the other side of the door and we are not afraid.

With our eyes open, we knock on it: tuk-tuk-tuk.

Were we wrong?

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