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Who’s scared of Daniela Weiss?

Normal rightists can distinguish between just positions and crazed settler violence

Many people in the religious rightist camp are embarrassed by Daniela Weiss. They watch her losing it in Hebron and they whisper to themselves: “She’s causing us damage. Why is she doing it to us?”

 

The answer is simple: She is doing it because we are merely whispering, instead of telling her to relax. Religious rightists are uncomfortable about blatantly speaking out against reckless settlers, because then people will think that we are leftist too, and at this difficult time it is not nice to join the leftist media wave. So once the seasonal attack on the settlers starts, everyone enters the bunker.

 

This is a mistake, of course. One can be in favor of the right of Jews to hold on to the House of Peace in Hebron, yet at the same time be outraged by the thuggish behavior of the youths there. One can see the injustice inherent in the court ruling, yet continue the fight without going crazy.

 

So what if she’s one of us?

One can be both a rightist and a religious Zionist without Daniela Weiss’ ecstasy representing us and leading us by the nose, as if this is the only way one can love the Land of Israel.

 

And so what if she’s “one of us?” What do we have to do with the stone throwers, the people who vandalize tombstones, and those who attack officers and rabbis? And who decided, for God’s sake, that every time Ben-Gvir, Marzel and their buddies decide to get angry, which happens every two weeks, we all need to drop everything we are doing at the time and enlist to support their agenda?

 

This fight is not only about Hebron; rather, is also about our right-wing views and our Zionism and our religious views. It is a struggle about their substance, and to a large extent about the proper conduct befitting civilized Jews.

 

Riots that are meant to set a “price tag” in order to deter the army from operating are both a moral injustice and a life danger.

 

There are some people who will never get it, yet normal rightists know how to distinguish between appropriate, well-supported positions and a violent and crazed style adopted by 16-year-olds. Indeed, for every blow that a soldier sustains, the religious Zionist camp and its love for the Land of Israel sustain two blows.

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.06.08, 12:56
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