It's tempting to start a column criticizing idiots. of two kinds: those who think that one year of this government caused a war, rather than a long-standing abandonment of arrogant generals and securityists; And the second kind – idiots who think Netanyahu has nothing to do with this wanton situation, which has emerged under his nose and with warnings that he texts. But this is not the time for criticism.
When this nightmare ends, everyone connected or connected to the security and intelligence apparatus in the previous two decades, each and every one of them, must fold home. Everybody. From Benjamin Netanyahu down. Anyone who lent a hand to the abandonment of the South (and the North, but we woke up in the slap), to weaken the IDF and turn it from a war machine into a chubby, inclusive and loving cat, who is mostly offended when attacked; Anyone who ignored (at best) and mockingly dismissed the warnings at the gate, everyone who made sure to transfer money and equipment to the Nazis every month – oh, how embarrassing to write this now – each and every one of them should ask for forgiveness and pack.
Until then? I support leadership unreservedly, and I expect it from every reader as well. Yes, he also supports Gantz and Eisenkot and Saar and the rest of those who have (and will kidnap) fire and brimstone here. They are now my representatives, ours, and I have to believe in them.
The stories of my grandmother from the pogroms, and of my aunt from 2019, and all the sad stories that are part of the national ethos we grew up with - now it's us. We replaced them. We are the witness from the war who will say that he was there. We are the ones who will visit our grandchildren's gardens to tell about the pogroms and our Farhud.
Cast aside words of unity and love. They are clear to all, and those who have not yet understood them will never understand them again, and there is no dialogue with them. It is critical to internalize: we do not have the time and luxury to fight now, because we are only at the beginning. The Second Six-Day War will no longer be here. Neither is the Third Lebanon nor Yom Kippur. It is critical to realize that we are facing a long, exhausting, disintegrating period full of nerves and rage.
Apart from worrying about friends and family in the reserves, we are facing weeks and months of heartbreaking photographs of captives and captives, our brothers in the House of Israel who are in trouble and in captivity and begging us, and this time we already understand who the monsters are holding them. A time when a huge part of the nation will be mobilized at any moment, and those at home move from funeral to funeral, from comfort to consolation. We are facing a time when grief and rage will be something we will have to fight as much as the war against the Nazis. And yes, we're all going to go through it in the same little pressure cooker.
We don't have the time and the luxury of fighting now, because we're only at the beginning. The Second Six-Day War will no longer be here. Neither is the Third Lebanon nor Yom Kippur. It is critical to realize that we are facing a long, exhausting, disintegrating period full of nerves and rage
There is still a lot of work to be done to the world so that it will understand that ideologically speaking, it is definitely next. An essentially anti-Jewish world, whose window of shock is very small in general, and towards Jews in particular. There is still much internal information work to be done, in order to help the latter realize that there really is no difference between the Nazis of Gaza and the Nazis of Huwara.
The world will slowly stop being shocked by the Nazis and will return to being shocked by us. It's stronger than him. Anyone who misses the days when we were two sides and focused on our differences will try to crawl into the studios, it's stronger than him. We must look straight ahead, and not listen to the poisoners of the networks. We must write less and meet more. We will pick up the pieces, and we will also land along the way – but we will pave it together.
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