To Subjugate, Not to Surrender
MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Eretz Yisroel Shelanu
Two groups stood at the entrance to the government office this week. Both waited for the decision out of what is called "the forum of the seven ministers" on the Shalit deal issue. Around the Shalit family huddled a large group of supporters of the deal, and some distance away stood a small group around Yehuda Etzion from Ofra carrying a sign with the inscription "In the name of the dead who are still alive".
When I came there I understood how hard it is to face the Shalit family, terribly anxious prior to a decision concerning the fate of their son. The heart is inclined to be persuaded by slogans distributed in the vast, perhaps unparalleled, mass media campaign: What would you do if it were your son?, "Israel must do everything to bring the soldier home!, With the kidnapping we will take account, but we can not impose all the problems of the Middle East on Gilad's head ".
Professional interviewers, exciting headlines and deliberate leaks are designed to throw sand in the eye to blur our discretion. Despite it all, Ichud party members stood by Yehuda Etzion, despite the difficulty to face the Shalit family.
To the questioning reporters who did not understand how we dare to face the family full of anxiety, we answered from a thinking mind and turbulent heart: the fate of Gilad Shalit, could decide the fate of many soldiers and civilians. If G-d forbid this sad deal is approved, hundreds of arch- murderers will go home, and that would be the signal for the kidnapping of many others in Israel and abroad. Our crazy world would get a lesson how to reduce the Jews to their knees and trample them.
The attempt to make the Jibril deal where Ahmed Yassin, yemach shmo, was released, shows that the transaction gave rise to the Hamas and changed the face of the Middle East. Not for nothing, the entire intelligence community warns of serious consequences of the transaction. Aside from the surrender option displayed in the media as the only option for Shalit's release, there is another option. Rather than submit to defeat, instead of getting down on our knees, make the enemy get down on all fours and make him beg to release Shalit, and rid him of the desire to think of doing it again. But it seems we have become accustomed not to think in such healthy terms. We can and should, pursue and eliminate anyone who is related directly and indirectly, to that organization of murderers. We must conquer the nest of murderers in Gaza, and destroy all terrorist infrastructure and those that are suspected as such.
Some would say its madness, that this is warmongering, and the like. But whoever believes that he will buy some peace and quiet by this terrible surrender, will not gain anything: he will also surrender and also not have quiet. To Gaza we will have to return sooner or later. Sooner, if we will "come to" and understand that surrender will bring upon us rivers of the blood of our precious ones. Later, if we decide to surrender to the demands of those who seek nothing less than our annihilation. So when the situation will be insufferable and we will have paid an unnecessary price, all will agree that the murderers cell of Shalit's kidnappers have to be overcome in their den, the earlier the better. |
