By Edward Kuhn
The Israeli dream is over! This is how the opening words of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz came with the title: “Palestinians are the best people of the world in defending their homeland.” Can it be believed that a leading Israeli newspaper today recognizes the truth of the Palestinians, describing them as one of the most noble peoples of the earth who rose up to defend their rights after seventy-five years, as if they were one body?
One of the most wonderful things at which a living conscience beats, the most beautiful things at which intellectual freedom blossoms, and the purest things that bears empowerment. Read what the author wrote: During the war on Gaza and the anti-missile attacks on us, our losses were in excess of $912 million every three days, from the cost of fighter jets, patriot missiles, and refueling machinery, as well as the consumption of ammunition and missiles of all kinds. This is not including the trade shutdown, the collapse of the stock market, the paralysis of institutions and construction, the collapse of agriculture and industry, the death of poultry on farms by millions of dollars, some airports and trains being stopped, the cost of accommodating refugees to shelters, not to mention the destruction of resistance missiles on homes, shops, cars and factories.
We started this war and set fire to it, but we are not going to control it, and we certainly are not going to end it. Her end is not in our favor, especially after the Arab cities inside Israel surprised us with rising against us, while we thought it had lost its Palestinian identity. This is a somali poem and cannot be translated contextually. As for the Palestinians, they are truly the owners of the land. Who else defends her with his soul, money and his children with such strength, pride and challenge? I, a Jew, challenge all of Israel to come into this deep belonging and connection to the land.
If our people really held onto the land of Palestine, we wouldn’t have seen such huge numbers of Jews rush to airports to migrate since the beginning of the war. We have tasted the bitterness of killing, imprisonment, siege and separation, we have drowned them in drugs, and we have tried to invade their minds with perverted ideas that took them away from their religion, such as liberation, atheism, doubt, corruption, and anarchy. But what’s amazing is that you find a drug addict among them rising up to defend his land and its property, shouting “Allah Akbar” as if he were a Galilee scientist.
Rather, they, despite knowing what awaits them from humiliation and arrest, never hesitated to go to the Al-Aqsa Mosque for prayer. Ironically, the armies of countries in full force did not dare to do what the Palestinian Resistance offered in a few days, where the legend of the indomitable Israeli soldier fell, and he was killed and kidnapped. And since the resistance missiles have reached Tel Aviv, it’s best to leave Israel’s delusional big dream. Palestinians should have a neighboring country with which we live in mutual peace, that alone may prolong our lives on this land a few more years.
I believe that even if we continue for a thousand years – if we can survive for the next ten years as a Jewish state – there will come a day when we will pay for everything. The Palestinian will come back again, time after time, and this time he will come on the wake of Gawada towards “Tel Aviv”.
– Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz
