The son of a friend is studying medicine in Hungary. When the chaos began, he got on a plane, enlisted, and has been in Gaza ever since, for three months. As far as the Hungarians were concerned, he lost the year. Three months is a hole in the material.
The young man, Nadav Shmo, approached the institutions responsible for medical studies in Israel, with a request - at the end of the war to continue his studies here. Makes the most sense. You gave - you received. Received an answer: Unfortunately this is not possible. So risking my life in Gaza is fine, but getting a transfer to study in Israel isn't it? I understood the priorities. The respondent replied: Indeed, it is worthwhile to start a war on this. Genius.
As more reservists are released, they discover that the beautiful words and sweet gift packages remain in Gaza, but when they return to Israel, the same unfortunate patterns of rigid bureaucracy, of inappropriate rules, meet them and take all the wind out of their sail. The question that arises immediately is whether for this I sacrificed months of my life, endangered my well-being and the well-being of my family, harmed my studies and business, rises like green wheat buds in the fields of the Negev? Another question is whether at the end of this war, when everyone is liberated, if at all, will there be a huge group of people here who gave everything and received nothing in return?
There is a kind of rule in Israel – if you do something wholeheartedly, you will be screwed. Ask social workers. If you have no conscientious, moral, national choice, someone will sentence you to a coupon. The system will recognize that you have more important things than money, and sting you. Terrible disease. But this time it's not the interns, not the teachers, not the psychologists in the public service, but all these dear people, all the righteous people who didn't know they were like that, all the recruits from moment to moment, all those who abandon jobs, the chairs, the families, all those who within a day changed existence from a normal civilian life to a life of heroism and sacrifice at the gate of hell.
And I expect that all the roads from Gaza back to Israel will be lined with red carpets for returnees, and that the words "I came back from Gaza" or "my husband returned from Gaza" will be a magic key that will shorten any complicated procedure, turn any arbitrary stubbornness into generous kindness, and that the families of the reservists will generously receive assistance of every possible kind, because that's how it should be for two reasons: 1. It's moral and humane. 2. Because soon they may be recruited again, and if they know that no one will indemnify them for the investment, they may stay in Hungary, and it will be a little unpleasant for them, but they will not come out suckers again. For the treatment of the default government.
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I saw an amazing video. 3,000 Palestinian men sit handcuffed in a square in Gaza, in their underwear. Special cameras take pictures of them. These cameras are programmed to recognize the ugly faces of everyone who was on the attack at seven. There is a huge database that was established from all the cameras that were filmed at the time of the incident, security cameras of the communities and the cameras of the worms themselves. The faces were fed into a system that could later identify that inferior person when it met him again. And here is a chance encounter in the square. And you don't have to investigate one by one, and you don't have to guess and speculate. Everyone is filmed at once, and the camera marks who participated in the atrocities, and who only supported his heart.
The statistics are interesting; Of the three thousand, sixty were identified with certainty as having invaded Nahal Oz, Sderot, Kfar Gaza, and more. They were taken out of all the detainees with tweezers and sent to the interrogation compounds, where they began chanting the Nukhba. All the others were released. Not that anyone thinks they're completely innocent, but they don't have to settle the bill right now.
And the problem with everything I've said so far is that even those sixty who were caught online, who joined hundreds more who have already been identified, may be released very soon, when the everyone-for-all deal happens. All the disturbed, deviant, psychopathic, dung of this world will return to being free people, and what their idea about spending their freedom we have already understood.
If you had quickly crowned me the all-powerful ruler of all, I would have set up field courts to try these domen, and anyone with footage of him doing what he did, would be convicted on the spot, and from there to the firing squad. There is nothing more moral than that. After all, it is inconceivable that in a few months we will see them waving their hands that did what they did through the bars of the bus. That can't happen. Therefore, these sons of Satan will be led to their deaths. How it will work I leave to your creative imagination. I know that there are many people in Israel who would love to pull the trigger, myself included, but I think there is a point in sterilizing the process from emotions, making it industrial, businesslike. That's how it is, go argue with the process.
Only son
I have something unpopular to say. My heart collapses into itself with every news of another void, no matter who. I have an inner level of sorrow, certainly the voids that leave children orphaned crush me, but most of all - only boys. This week, Meron Moshe Gersh, an only son from Petah Tikva, fell. And now comes the statement - the IDF must immediately stop recruiting only sons for combat. No matter how much they beg, no matter if the parents agree, or pretend to agree, there are prices you can't pay, and an only child to his parents is that one too many.
Who doesn't know the harsh system of pressure that single sons exert on their parents to sign? This also happens in bereaved families. I don't know many parents who manage to withstand their children's pressures, even on less critical issues, such as obtaining a motorcycle license, for example. It seems to the parent that persisting in his refusal will ruin his child's life and spoil the relationship with him forever. And with an only child, destroying relationships is almost as terrible as losing him in battle or on the road.
It is not clear to me why the IDF did not make the obvious moral decision. There is no life-threatening service for single children, or families who have already paid the price before. There isn't - and that's it. A letter will not help, no signature will help, will not help the chief of staff, will not help the Supreme Court. The Basic Law on Military Service, Section 4a: No person who has no brothers, or who has any of his brothers killed while serving in the IDF, shall not serve in a position that has a chance of being killed in battle. Is. The story is closed.
From my visits to the homes of bereaved families in this starving war for human blood, I see - yes, every soldier in the entire world, every loss, even in a family with many children, is a cutting pain, but when the parents are not left alone in the world, there is a softening to the blow. Parents of only sons, by unsuccessful choice or by necessity, may not rise from this blow.
Say - what is the fault of an only son for his singularity? Does he have to live with restrictions and barriers all his life so that a hair doesn't fall out of his head and upset his parents? Maybe he will also be forbidden to go on the big trip to South America? Maybe also a disco night, because people are being stabbed there? And I will answer you - years of bloodletting lie ahead. Years of military rule in Gaza, uprisings in the West Bank, a war of attrition in the north. A high price in the blood of the boys will still be paid. That at least the small families, those whose whole world depends on this individual, will have a preferential chance of not being kidnapped.
And that we will achieve world peace tomorrow. Artist.
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