A Visit to Sanity *and* Historic Changes to Israeli Politics

Before I get into the historic changes in Israeli politics taking place today, I would like to tell you about a visit I made with a group that I guided.

Yesterday, we visited a place called “Maoz Esther” or the “Fortress of Esther”.

Esther Gallia, mother of seven, was murdered by “Palestinian” Arabs in 2006 near her home in a drive by shooting. We don’t know if the murder weapon was one of thousands that Israel ceremonially issued to mega terrorist, Arafat’s colleagues in 1993 (as part of the Oslo accords).

“Maoz Esther, near the site of the murder, was subsequently established in her memory.
The residents of Maoz Esther did not ask for permission from the authorities to establish the newest Jewish presence in the lands liberated by Israel in 1967.

Since the   1993 Oslo perfidy, no such permission has been granted. At the same time thousands of Arab homes and infrastructure are built against all official government zoning laws, with almost no government response.

Jews know that they suffer an embedded disadvantage vis a vis Arabs when it comes to the scrutiny and the determined fist of the authorities in the liberated territories.

Maoz Esther is a few shacks, including a synagogue (which is waiting for a roof)
In one shack lives eight teen age girls. In another one just a few hundred meters away live some teen-age boys.

The boys herd sheep. Their daily presence in wide ranging areas creates an ongoing Jewish presence beyond their shack or community, thus securing even more land for the Jewish people. If they were not there, the Arabs would quickly move in and yet another parcel of the Land of Israel would be lost. They want to prevent this.

The boys are the ones who keep a sharp eye out for local Bedouin intruders as they guard their own and the girl’s shacks.

The girls, up at the crack of dawn, divide their time between farming, working for cash on neighboring communities, housekeeping and study.

I saw a large pile of debris lying next to the path up to their shack. I asked what it was.
When every few months, after the police swarm to demolish their shack (and brutally drag them out of their beds in the middle of the night), the girls pile the ruins in one spot. Then they rebuild.

I thought, one day that pile will be a monument to Israel’s great folly: Instead of persecuting these idealistic youth they should have been given medals and assistance.

Alas, folly, folly, folly.

Ahuvia Sandek lived in the boy’s shack and fulfilled his dream of following his father and grandfather in settling the land of Israel. They faced their challenges in fulfilling the dream; now it was his turn to do so.  A few months ago, Ahuvia was killed when a police car, chasing his, rammed it. The car flipped and Ahuvia was killed. The police suspected him of throwing stones at Arabs.

They are now covering up the incident and preventing an investigation.
In the decades of daily Arab stone throwing at Jews there has never been a case of hot pursuit and ramming. This determination is reserved only for enemy number one!
The “hill top youth”.

I met them.

They are the best we have.

Now for current Israel politics;
In great contrast to my visit at Maoz Esther, the Israeli political establishment and media are waiting eagerly for the words of Mansour Abbas this evening. The head or the “Ra’am” party (a branch of the Hamas supporting “Muslim Brotherhood” who stone Gays) will give a speech.  Since half the Jewish politicians will not sit with the other half to form a government due to reasons of personality and ambition, it falls to Mr. Abbas to choose which government will rule the Jewish state.

This is indeed a first in Israeli politics and history.
The media and political establishment are preparing public opinion to accept this as not just an unexpected result of democratic election but a welcome enlightenment of Israel as a society.

Vying for the support and concessions to Hamas’s supporters is a good thing, not even a necessary evil.

The youngsters holding on to the land of Israel represent the opposite. Abbas represents progress and enlightenment and the “hilltop youths” are the ones preventing it.

Or for the still sane amongst us, perhaps the opposite?

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