To all my five dear sons who are at the front and last but not least, my son-in-law as my son. I wanted to tell you that in addition to loving you very much – I am equally proud of you for being at the edge of the IDF "spear" (okay... The Border Police is also a spitz in its own right.)
Documentation of the Chief of Staff's conversation with IDF forces operating in the sector // IDF Spokesperson
Your amazing children are with us and we enjoy them, and it is amusing from time to time to see you in them. So much for the introduction, and hence the main thing.
In the morning I woke up earlier than usual, and with the coffee in the kitchen I realized that you – who are now fighting every single site – are not alone. And I don't mean your fellow soldiers, but invisible fighters, Jews of all generations who could not fight for themselves.
These were Jews in Mellah, Morocco, who were massacred and raped by their neighbors and could not fight back. And also in England. What alternative path was there for the families of English Jews some 830 years ago, who would rather commit suicide and kill their children than fall into the hands of their Christian neighbors?
Jews in Spain were burned at the stake and shouted "Shema Yisrael..." And in the last century, Nahum, Grandfather Shlomo's uncle, along with his fourteenth wife and all the members of the Polish family that hid them, were burned.
Fighters returning from Gaza after Operation Cast Lead, 2009, photo: AP
Those killed in the pogroms in Israel, pogroms abroad and persecutions around the world maintained their Jewishness despite everything. Even though they were murdered because of their religion - and without the possibility of defending themselves in the same way. They, including everyone, together with the beautiful Sulika from the Maghreb, Moishele and his raised hands from the ghetto shout to you in a whisper, behind your shoulders: Win!
In the mass graves, in the cursed land of exile, the lips of the murdered, along with the ashes of those burned in Treblinka, are now crying out: Win! For us, please, win! We couldn't fight, please get revenge for us!
Your thoughts were interrupted as morning hit, your coffee cup emptied, and your charms woke up from their sleep. Then I realized that you have to do it for them too, that it won't happen anymore! And that they will live better and without outside threats. Ignore background noise and confusion from our people. Fight!, "Without the High Court of Justice and without B'Tselem."
Please G-d protect your heroic sons who rise up to defend the desecration of your name.
Now, my dear sons, it is your turn. Please win so that no one in the world will think of raising his hand on a Jew.
"In God we will do well, and He will defeat our troubles" (Psalm 60).
Leave in peace and return to peace.
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