Translated from the Yisraeli newspaper

Yehudit Dasberg was one of the first victims of Oslo. Her daughter and son in law were murdered in a drive-by shooting near Gush Ezion. Yehudit and her husband Uri adopted their two babies and have raised them ever since. When Israel began to release terrorists, Yehudit appealed to the Supreme Court. Time and again, the court rejected her appeals. After a number of years and terrorist releases, Yehudit tried a new tactic. She came
to the court equipped with a large poster onto which she had pasted pictures of more than one hundred men, women and children. “Do you know who these people are?” Yehudit asked Justice Mishael Cheshin. “These are the Jews murdered by the
terrorists that you insisted on releasing."

The release of the murderers of Jews has become a fact of life. At first, they explained that it would bring peace. Today, they tell us that it will strengthen the good terrorists in their fight against the bad terrorists and that it will help get negotiations started. Nobody buys it but nevertheless, as if it were some sort of heavenly decree -- we continue to release them.

Why?

The answer to that is hidden in the realm of our denial of our Jewish identity.

We have rejected our Jewish identity and have enlisted the cruelest of our enemies to help us be rid of it. We called it a peace agreement, or Separation, or Disengagement or who knows what -- but it is all one and the same. It is the drive to purge ourselves of the Land of the Bible and the people faithful to it -- the people who interfere with our denial of our Jewish identity.

And it works. We have denied our Jewish identity so much that we tolerate the murderers of Jews. We release them time and again to preserve our illusion of normalcy.

Return to Jewish values, Jewish identity and the Land of Israel means return to Divine morals. Our sages expressed Divine security morals in the adage, "If someone plans to attack you, be sure to attack him first." (Sanhedrin 72).

It is imperative that we return to the life-giving values of the Torah. Our security culture must be motivated by the principle that potential aggressors will be attacked before they have any chance to cause us harm. The battle must move from within our cities to enemy territory. An aggressive security stance is not only necessary, but also Jewishly moral. When this principle is applied in our security culture, it will, with G-d's help,
bring Israel genuine and long lasting security.
 

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