tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post9005143414381483626..comments2024-03-17T17:22:49.862+02:00Comments on A Soldier's Mother: Ben-Dror Yemini - What the Heck?A Soldier's Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11370218893899121159noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386256495088401444.post-66943263732806978322014-07-02T09:21:02.183+03:002014-07-02T09:21:02.183+03:00I read it and I was disgusted.
The Israeli elite ...I read it and I was disgusted.<br /><br />The Israeli elite - the branja - remain insulated from the reality in the country.<br /><br />Its not their children who were murdered. So they can lecture other Israelis to maintain a calm that has never existed.<br /><br />Ben-Dror Yemini and his ilk don't get it. Its not about revenge. Its about ensuring the safety of Israel's children. A civilized country owes them that much.<br /><br />And if the Arabs don't want to play by the rules - Israel has to act. Before another Jewish child gets murdered.<br /><br />The Arabs feel no guilt over what they do. But they can shamed into recognizing that killing Jews will harm their own standing with their family, their clan and their people.<br /><br />Israel must exact from them a price high enough that they won't dare to do it again. Showing weakness in front of the Arabs only reinforces the contempt with which they hold the dhimmi Jews. Fear is far more powerful than love.<br /><br />What the Jews need is to be feared. Yemini does not understand human nature -least of all that of the Arabs. The rules of the game need to change in Israel. Or what happened a few weeks ago will happen again.<br /><br />This is what needs to be done - not some prattle about a meaningless calm that has never existed in Israel. Yemini should know above all true peace is not simply the absence of violence but peace between man and G-d, peace between man and nature and peace between men. We're far away from it.<br /><br />Until that day dawns, Israel will have to protect itself from those who seek to kill its people and who plot its destruction. That is the reality of the Middle East. Whether or not Yemini and the Israeli elite come to terms with it is not something for them to airily dismiss; it has been brought home to every family in Israel.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.com