http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2006/07/04/the-lefts-war-on-the-entebbe-legacy-of-judaism-jewish-morals-ethos/ The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2006/07/04/the-lefts-war-on-the-entebbe-legacy-of-judaism-jewish-morals-ethos/#comment-2791 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:28:41 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2006/07/04/the-lefts-war-on-the-entebbe-legacy-of-judaism-jewish-morals-ethos/#comment-2791 [...] This author can’t speak as one who has suffered or is suffering through the dire fear and trauma of having a loved one, a chayal kidnapped, taken prisoner by a band of vile murderers as can Noam Shalit or Esther Wachsman. Can one presume to know or intuit the feelings that surround such an event? Having said that, one must see and realize that our generation’s leaders of Medinat Yisrael have fallen into the pit of appeasement, of dignifying despicable, vile murderers. Negotiating prisoner exchanges with murderers are wrong, dead wrong and it begets more and more of the same. This is equally true whether it involves an alledged drug pusher or an IDF soldier. It is part of a mentality which says “we are like grasshoppers”, that we are too small and puny to defeat giants. To contrast the kidnappings of the young Yeshiva student and the young soldier with the rescue of 100 hostages at Entebbe is to see how far Medinat Israel is fallen. [...] […] This author can’t speak as one who has suffered or is suffering through the dire fear and trauma of having a loved one, a chayal kidnapped, taken prisoner by a band of vile murderers as can Noam Shalit or Esther Wachsman. Can one presume to know or intuit the feelings that surround such an event? Having said that, one must see and realize that our generation’s leaders of Medinat Yisrael have fallen into the pit of appeasement, of dignifying despicable, vile murderers. Negotiating prisoner exchanges with murderers are wrong, dead wrong and it begets more and more of the same. This is equally true whether it involves an alledged drug pusher or an IDF soldier. It is part of a mentality which says “we are like grasshoppers”, that we are too small and puny to defeat giants. To contrast the kidnappings of the young Yeshiva student and the young soldier with the rescue of 100 hostages at Entebbe is to see how far Medinat Israel is fallen. […]

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