I am currently in Boston speaking to Harvard University students about starting an international movement to combat the “Free Palestine” movement and I just received a call from my daughter back in Israel.
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“Daddy, did you hear what happened to Yehuda?” My heart sank. When 9 months earlier you received a call like this and the result was to find out that your wife and two daughters were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists, this is not the call you want to receive. “No,” I said, “What's happened?”. “He's been arrested at Keren Shalom!” “Baruch Hashem!” Was my reply. And what a Baruch Hashem it is.
I am so proud that my 15-year-old son, Yehuda, is doing what he can to help the families of the hostages, even if our Government disagrees. Especially if our Government disagrees. How many 15-year-olds today care so much about the pain of our people? Apparently, Yehuda does. And that makes me proud.
None of us can imagine the pain and anxiety of the hostages' families today. But what are we doing about it? Calling for a deal to pause the fighting for two months and release thousands of terrorists from Israeli jails and will put thousands of our soldiers in danger and millions of our people.
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Yehuda Dee during the funeral of his slain mother murdered in a terror attack that also killed his two sisters
(Photo: Alex Kolomoisky )
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The Dee family together before the deadly terror attack that killed mother Lucie and two of the girls
(Photo: Courtesy of the family )
So why not try a different approach?
What if Gazan humanitarian aid was blocked long enough that the Gazan people themselves started to fight their Hamas overlords? What if the Gazans started to imprison their own terrorists? What if regular Gazans began to reveal the locations of our hostages under fear of their own starvation? What if this could save hundreds of lives of our soldiers who would be able to withdraw from Gazan territory? What if it also saved thousands of lives of Gazans who could end this war months earlier without the inevitable bombardments that will follow a temporary ceasefire?
Rabbi Leo Dee Photo: Rafi KotzI applaud Yehuda and I'm tremendously proud of him and his friends. In fact, I call upon all Israeli high school kids to come, next week, to Keren Shalom to block the food trucks and to bring about a rapid and peaceful end to this conflict by encouraging decent Gazans to rise against their own tyrannical regime. By doing so they will be saving the lives of our hostages, of our soldiers and so many decent Gazans in the months ahead.
Go Yehuda!