Hillel Weigel, the late Yaniv, every time your picture appears on the screen, or in the newspaper on the counter, I look down. I can't contain the light in your bright green eyes. It's a good thing that the evil was able to extinguish with a few shots, just like that in the middle of the day. I look down in front of Your faces, dear boys, dear brothers, in front of your heroic parents who bear this horror with awe-inspiring nobility, and feel the helplessness that overwhelms me. I feel the sense of humiliation in every pore of the skin, that Jews cannot travel safely in their country and state.
Hvara is not far from where I live in Ofra, and we often pass through its streets on our way to Samaria.
On the last independence day we went there with our children and had a humbling experience.
When we were standing in traffic in the heart of the village, a Palestinian boy jumped up to our car and tore off the Israeli flag that was flying from the window of the car.
In order to regain a little of the lost dignity, the driver of the car chased after the young man, who ran away as long as he could.
We continued to drive with a broken flag stick, and with a sour feeling in our hearts.
When a flag is cut it is only a symbol, when a life is cut the heart boils.
And when the heart is boiling there are people who lose their brakes and do things that should not be done.
Barbaric acts of indiscriminate harm to the innocent.
These acts were called "settler violence" in the media, which is what the US also called it when it condemned them.
Brothers' funeral // Photo: Yoni Rickner
More than half a million people live in the settlements, 99.9% of them have never resorted to violence, yet the word violence has been affixed to them in the ugliest way.
The only common denominator that unites half a million people who are called settlers is the pioneering for the settlement of the land.
Violence is not part of it.
A violent settler is a terrorist who is behind bars.
And yet, what do we do with the feeling of humiliation?
Strengthen the hands of the IDF soldiers and the security forces, who are the only factors that can act on behalf of the people of Israel to pursue and eliminate the terrorists. And do what settlers do - build and establish another settlement. Terrorism would have been eliminated a long time ago if the Palestinians knew that for every person killed, a new settlement would be built here Unfortunately, the right-wing government did not establish the settlements of Yagal and Hillel, but vacated the settlement of Avitar. The same government conducted secret negotiations in Aqaba to freeze construction. If the Israeli government wants to lift the spirits, restore security and governance, there is only one way to do it. This: to build.
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