Real Heroes And Real Martyrs
Barry Rubin has put up a powerful piece marking today’s Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron) for Israel’s fallen soldiers and those killed at the hands of terrorists. Read the whole thing but the sentiment at the end is what matters.
I thought exactly the same thing watching last nights big ceremony: not one mention of our enemies, not one moment of hatred, no triumph or any desire to continue this slaughter. Just the most powerful desire that this be the LAST time we add to the list of names, even though we know it will not.
In all of this and throughout the nation on this day, there was not a word of hatred, of reviling any enemy. No smugness of triumph, no desire for conquest; no thirst for revenge or punishment. Thus behaves the world’s most slandered nation.
via RubinReports: Seated Among the Heroes and Watching the Faces of the Martyrs.
Candle lighting ceremony held in Itamar this year on every night of Chanukah, in front of the home of the Fogel family.
As the Rabbi of Itamar, Rav Natan Hai said, “The terrorists wanted to frighten and silence us but we will go on building and lighting a great light in the hills of the Shomron. Our beloved righteous ones, the Fogel Family, were murdered, but their light will go on and their way shall overcome.”
