Tali Gottlieb: "Yesterday's sights reminded me of terrorist demonstrations"/Knesset Channel
Hagai Lober, the father of (resp.) Sergeant Elisha Yonatan Lober, who was killed in a battle in the southern Gaza Strip last December, delivered a message this morning (Sunday) to the families of abductees who called for an increase in the fight against the government. In an article he published on the 'Channel 7' website, he clarified: "You You will not burn the country. If I have to fight you, I will. Millions of people look at you in shock, and only because of your honor, they are silent."
In his conversation with Yanon Magal and Barak Seri on radio 103FM, he responded to the words: "When I stood in front of the open grave of Yonatan, my son, I swore on his grave that neither I nor people like you will Return to October 6. We will continue to disagree, of course, I'm not talking about the substance, the tone and the style must change because of them we were destroyed. Suddenly I open the Mochash and see these things, it was like a second knock on the door for me. People, in a big mistake, think that if someone is in pain, they are allowed to destroy the country. We will establish a moral and ethical force, it has already arisen, and this force, not me I founded it, it arose from masses of people that what they will never do is resort to the same methods that we speak against."
Sgt. (resp.) Elisha Yonatan Lober/IDF spokesperson
The demonstration last night in Tel Aviv/Reuters
According to him, "I think this nation is moral, values. At the next demonstration that they are going to block, I will stand there with a big sign of Jonathan and I will ask them, 'Did Jonathan fall in vain?' And if they want to come down and block, let them do it on my body, let them run over me, let them kill me, let them join me together with Jonathan. It will not happen here in this country. Do you want to say your words? Say. I spoke this morning with my good friends and my loved ones and my valuable ones from 'Brothers to kiss', we corresponded, I said to them 'how? You sat at my house, at my place at Shiva and told me never again and we still think that Bibi is a danger to humanity, I don't know why, to the entire universe, but we will not return to this path', and now they are writing to me that because they are right, they have to. 'They were polite for two, three, four months', what a shame and disgrace that is."
"Who are you fighting against? Against me. It's not Bibi, it's awfully easy to say Bibi. It's just to dodge. You're not against Bibi, 'brothers to kiss', Kaplanists, Brexiteers and I don't know who else, you're against me. Against a bereaved father who voted for the right and still Thinks the right is right and thinks that Jonathan was killed, in my opinion, because of the Oslo agreement. Jonathan who was a small child during the disengagement and we were dragged away like the protesters were not dragged away, that's why he was killed, because of the disengagement, this is my opinion, so what? So I'm going to demonstrate against them? I scream at them 'shame' '? What is this thing? You held back for three months? Four months? Applause. In front of whom did you hold back? In front of me you held back and will continue to hold back," he read.
"I speak against the bereaved families who do this"
He also claimed: "Controversy is a wonderful thing, they can think that we should return to a Palestinian state and give Hamas the place and that the abductees are the most important thing, there is no dispute about this, there must be a dispute, there is a tone, there is a style, there are roadblocks. Roadblocks are violence. 'Brothers To kiss' they wrote to me today that 'this is a non-violent protest', this is violence. Shutting down the economy? This is violence. Now, at this time, in my opinion at any time, but at this time, it is disintegrating, it is breaking. Express your opinion, I am not against, Say, but to say 'burn the country?'"
"I am speaking against the bereaved families who do this. It is allowed to me and allowed to every person in Israel, even if he did not send his sons to fight, even if he did not send his sons to fight. You are a citizen of the country and you are allowed. The pain does not create ownership of the discourse. I am supposed to speak this night again at Hatavim Square and I will speak wherever I am invited, and it is perfectly fine that they think that the last of the terrorists should be returned and leave Gaza, but if the families of the abductees stand and say - 'we will burn the country', every A citizen of the country may, it is his right to speak against and say in a clear voice 'I am against this act of the families of the abductees'. He doesn't even have to keep saying in the same breath, 'And I'm in favor of releasing them,' it's so clear, it's so simple," he clarified.
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