The fruits of delegitimization

Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press
Israel Government Press Office
11 April '10

Yisrael Hayom (Hebrew,pg.9, bottom) refers to the ideological motives behind the (Anat Kam) affair and believes that "At the base of the story stands the great intellectual alignment against the State of Israel that has reached its peak since the Oslo accords burst upon our world and clearly legitimized the talk that was once marginal and is now routine: The talk about the delegitimization of the existence of the state of the Jews and its right to defend itself against its enemies, whom mainstream journalists see as freedom fighters while IDF soldiers have become goons. From this sprang Anat Kam.

Against such a background, it is clear that whoever exposes IDF secrets and its self-defense possibilities deserves full praise… Is it coincidental that the editor of the magazine section of the newspaper that is defending Anat Kam and Uri Blau, issued an internal report during the funeral of Maj. Eliraz Peretz that he, 'does not want to live in Eliraz Peretz's country or that of his mother.' And why? Because this 'is a family of fascists and jihadists and let nobody say that he was killed for me.' Here is the tragic link that nobody wants to deal with, but is apparent as a line that is dividing Israeli society against the background of this harsh affair: Between love of country and turning one's back on it."
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Fallen major’s widow pleads for Pollard, not for own home

Widow of Golani Brigade Maj. Eliraz Peretz, doesn't ask Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin to save her home from imminent demolition.


Tova Lazaroff
JPost
08 April '10

Shlomit Peretz, the widow of Golani Brigade Maj. Eliraz Peretz, did not ask Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin to save her home from imminent demolition, when he sat in her living room on Thursday, in the unauthorized Givat Hayovel outpost on the outskirts of the Eli settlement.

On the wall was a large Israel flag that the couple had used as their wedding canopy.To ward off the chill, she wore a green fleece jacket. She grasped a plastic cup filled with water.

Her husband, 31, was killed in action in the southern Gaza Strip on March 26, along with St.-Sgt. Ilan Sviatkovsky, 21. On Thursday, politicians made their way to her two-story stone home to speak with her and her four young children.

Of her husband, Shlomit told Rivlin, “He was willing to pay the price and what happened, happened.”

What was important now was to “continue in his path,” she said. “I have to be a vessel to his memory.

“He can not work physically in this world, but I am here to be a vessel for all the things that he wanted to do.”

Among these, she noted, was his desire to have 12 children of his own and to adopt a child.

“There is one thing that I will ask of you,” she told the Likud lawmaker.

“One of the ethics that was very strong for Eliraz was not to leave people behind on the battlefield,” said Shlomit who described how he had helped evacuate his wounded friends from areas under fire.

“The state has left someone in the field for 25 years. If we could return him home, it would be a form of comfort for us,” she said.

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