Meir Ettinger – Who Will Protect Eretz Yisrael?

Meir Ettinger

Who Will Protect Eretz Yisrael?

Those who embraced the soldiers in Gush Katif and called on his students not to refuse an order - effectively qualifying the expulsion of the Jews of the Gaza Strip, bears responsibility for the consequences of the disengagement

I do not usually write about politics, and do not attribute unnecessary importance to what was done in the Knesset elections. Despite this, this time I want to write about a certain point because, although it has a political touch, it is mainly ideological, and it seems that we have to prepare for it, God forbid, perhaps we will need it one day.

Every day when I left school in eighth grade I would see the inscription sprayed with paint spray paint on the wall: "Where did Effie Eitam go?" I mean, I did not know who sprayed the same address, but I remembered it this week when he was elected Head of the new Jewish home.

There is a reasonable probability that after the current elections we will have to embark on another struggle for the integrity of the land, the integrity of the land which is also the integrity of the people, because the people and the land are one. No one knows exactly what Netanyahu and Trump are planning on what is called the "100th deal," but it can already be understood that we are facing a difficult experience. Even if no settlement is evacuated within the framework of that deal, and even if, on the contrary, hundreds of housing units are approved in the settlements, they want to tear the land of Israel apart and hand it over to other nations.

If this happens, God will have to deal with the same leadership in the same struggle as the leadership that crushed that struggle, the leadership that what is important to her is to be 'beautiful' and incapable of placing the Torah above the laws of the state.

Those who hugged the soldiers in Gush Katif and called upon his students not to refuse orders - and in effect effectively prepared the expulsion of the Jews of the Gaza Strip - bear the responsibility for the consequences of the disengagement no less than its perpetrators. And endangers the inhabitants of the Land of Israel.

And all this why? Anyone who chose to turn the struggle against the disengagement into a matter of 'values', for the matter of 'spirit', in which one has to choose some more 'value' again - the people of Israel or the Land of Israel, as if it is possible to separate them. Belongs precisely to the blindness of those who led the disengagement, let alone predicting the consequences of the disengagement, and nevertheless chose to endanger the lives of Jews in the name of ideas and ideas.

Those who do not believe seriously the words of the Torah that warned that if we do not exclude the inhabitants of the land, we will not consider the disengagement as a real life-saving, and the desecration of Gd - how can we rely on such a person to bear security responsibility or preserve the Land of Israel?

When Saul was reprimanded by Samuel after he did not properly fulfill the commandment to wipe out Amalek, Samuel told him two verses whose content was seemingly the opposite. On the one hand, he says to him, "If you are a tyrant, you are the head of the thousands of Israel." In this verse he criticizes improper humility Knowledge and obsequiousness. And immediately in the next verse, "He who hears the altar of good, listen from the milk of the rams" - seemingly opposite criticism, for having considered his opinion instead of listening to God.

To teach you that these two mistakes go together - excess pride leads to wrong humility, and submission where undesirable leads to ego battles. When there is humility in the place of desecration of the Lord and the saving of the soul instead of saying the opinion of the Torah in a decisive manner, as the Rambam states: "If the king says to cancel a mitzvah, we do not listen to him."

On the other hand, the desired leadership is the leadership of Adino Haetzni, the leadership of King David - a concession in everything connected with the personal issue, and uncompromising insistence on everything related to the Torah. Only such leadership can preserve the Land of Israel.