One morning,
when Erel Segal awoke from his tumultuous dreams, he discovered that he had turned into a giant poison machine in his bed.
"We are all standing the test of whether we will succeed in the eighth decade as a sovereign and united state or we will fail again because of internal conflicts," he read in the prime minister's letter, then examined the state of the factional garden.
The opposition has become a poison machine, complains the man who shouted in the Knesset "my people are dead" and is now practically and consciously a member of the Balfour camp and its affiliates.
It's a regular pattern.
Like herpes, it comes and goes with mental stress.
Whenever the healing government and its supporters encounter public protest, aggressive opposition from the opposition, and venomous criticism on social media, a passive-aggressive campaign against the inciting right begins.
After all, this government, its voters and its mouthpieces in the media, have been operating an incitement machine against Netanyahu and his voters for years.
Yuk self-awareness.
Incite and complain about incitement.
"We need to redeem Israel from the malignant disease named Benjamin Netanyahu," Deputy Minister Yair Golan said this week, and the next day refused to apologize, stating: "The national champion of incitement is Benjamin Netanyahu. The intensity of the danger and the degree of poisoning of this man's public space. "
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Bennett's letter includes a warning of civil war.
The left is always threatening.
He is allowed.
The right as a camp, in the practical test, not in theory, in disengagement, cried and surrendered.
But the option was ready.
On the eve of the disengagement, Ami Ayalon, Maj. Gen. (Res.) And former GSS chief, proposed a second Altalena. Nisso Shaham's friend ("Shit on them, use an olive") wrote in his writer's pen: "Only one weapon is missing today in the IDF's arsenal, and that is the holy cannon."
The fact that Altalena did not become a black spot in the history of Zionism is only thanks to historians on behalf of, the crime remains a crime
On Tuesday this
week marked the 74th anniversary of the Altalena crime.
"And I stood in all the great crowd down by the sea, and with them with my own eyes I saw the young men of Israel jumping from big cars and steel hats on their heads, and machine guns in their hands and they armed from head to toe and they two, two, tens, many hundreds - running to shoot And I do not know anymore: why do I have eyes if they see such. And I passed between the houses, and on the roofs and porches of Israel companies down in the sea. , Azriel Carlebach, Wednesday, 16 Sivan 5768).
Altalena binds the generation of founders in one fateful, bloody fate: Ben-Gurion, Begin, Galili, Alon and Rabin.
As I grow older and overcome prejudice, I understand in my mind the greatness of David Ben-Gurion, a great man, a biblical figure, the Messiah Ben-Yosef - but my heart is boiling. It is difficult or impossible to forgive. Begin and the Irgun, who brought the ship, and were also willing to compromise, forsook his opinion.
Ben-Gurion wanted to crush, eliminate, eliminate his political opponents.
Ben-Gurion wanted the confrontation.
First to eliminate the Irgun, and then the Palmach, which eliminated the Irgun.
Even if we accept with pain and rage the fact that Ben-Gurion did in his mind indeed see in Altalena the buds of rebellion that must be suppressed and therefore the sinking of the ship as a symbolic act, let us say justified, it is impossible to understand the massacre of surviving survivors waving a white flag.
The fact that Altalena did not become a black spot in the history of Zionism is only thanks to historians on its behalf.
The crime remains a crime.
Hilik Shapira, a 16-year-old Etzel fighter who boarded the ship wounded after the battles in Jaffa in which he participated, told me in an interview how after they waved white flags and jumped from the burning deck, Palmach men shot at them while in the water.
Next to him swam an American volunteer, a gentile, who took part in the battles of the Pacific during World War II.
He told him: "Even the Japanese stopped firing when they waved white flags."
According to Shapira, the story is clear.
They wanted to murder Begin.
In his important book "Altalena" Shlomo Nakdimon brings testimonies of those who were there.
Dr. Shalom Weiss, a physician of the Navy ship "Wadewood," watched from the deck. He watched a cannon hit Altalena, and spotted a white flag hoisted. For living purposes. "
Volunteer Jerry Salzman jumped injured into the water.
"Wounded and uninjured who were in the water were shot for 20-15 minutes."
Two volunteers from Salzman's unit, former officers in the British Army, issued a statement after Altalena: "We, as commanders of the Anglo-American group that came to Israel to join the Jewish army without political leanings, demand an immediate military investigation Their lives. "
The Jewish writer Arthur Kostler, who covered the events in Israel, described how Etzel members ran towards the armored cars of the defense, took off their shirts and shouted: "They shot me, but let them, our brothers on the ship, live!" Rabin was also there. To the place and was appointed commander of the Palmach force at the Palmach headquarters in Beit Adom on Hayarkon Street.
The late Prof. Zeev Tzahor
claimed that accusing Rabin of responsibility for the murder of Altalena immigrants was a lie.
In the article he wrote: “Altalena is a cult affair, recurring headlines once every few years.
Circles from the camp of the killer 'discovered' that Rabin commanded the killing of the burning Altalena survivors who jumped into the water off the coast of Tel Aviv, something that was not and was not created.
Rabin was not involved in any role in the Altalena affair. "False. Yitzhak Rabin testified in his autobiographical book" Service Book "that he commanded the Palmach force in Altalena.
And so Rabin wrote: "The ship is on fire. The sounds of ammunition explosions emanate from it. People jump from its deck into the sea. The Irgun members on the shore are hysterical, shouting: 'Begin on the ship!
Begin on the ship!
Save Begin! '
(...) Infernal fire, of extraordinary intensity, from all the weapons, was opened towards the ship.
"The sediment of hatred of the Palmach and the defense towards the organizations and their leaders found expression in the intensity of the fire."
That night Begin delivered a speech on the Irgun's secret radio station, during which he burst into tears. Despite the outrage, Begin warned his men: "We will not open fire.
There will be no civil war while the enemy is at the gate. "
In his memoirs, Begin referred to their mockery: "There are tears that no man should be ashamed of. There are saving tears. There is a choice: tear or blood."
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