Due to the participation of many Knesset members in the funerals of the murdered boys, a shorter-than-usual debate was held in the Knesset plenum today, which included one-minute speeches, with all speeches referring to the murder of the boys.
MK Yitzhak Vaknin (Shas): "We pray for peace all the time, but there is no doubt that in the face of those enemies who try to harm us, we have a duty to pursue them to the bitter end.""
MK Eitan Cabel (Labor): "There are families who, in this difficult moment, knew how to unite an entire people around them, and this is no small matter. We do not speak in the language of right and left, but in the language of one strong and united people.""
MK Ronen Hoffman (Yesh Atid): "Sometimes it seems to us that the term unity of the people is more of a cliché than a reality, but this moment proves that there is something beyond all the disagreements. Despite all the difficulty in these moments, we need to appreciate this strength whose engine was the families of the boys.""
MK Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism): "There has been no shortage of disagreements in recent times, and the polarization is growing. Large publics feel that unity has been damaged in recent times. Why should we expect only such events to bring us to this unity? In these days, we will take it upon ourselves to engrave unity on our flag.""
MK Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid): "Every home in Israel is hurting from this unbearable and cruel moment. I salute the families of the boys from here. You taught us all a lesson in nobility, you united the ends of the people all as one.".
MK Dov Hanin (Hadash): "There is no pain like the grief of parents for their murdered children. I ask myself whether we and our neighbors will be able to find the strength and intelligence to break this terrible cycle of death, occupation, and violence. Sadness and anger on the edge of an abyss now, let's not fall into it.""
MK Yoav Ben-Zur (Shas): "My cousin was also murdered when he went to purify himself in a spring, so I know the emotions at this moment. The feeling of desire and revenge, but we need to know how to show strength and not by getting carried away by things.""
MK Robert Ilatov (Likud Beitenu): "The terrorists are developing and growing, raising families here and deciding one day to murder people just because they are Jews, and the next day people from within this house rise up and justify these actions, and call on the terrorists to continue kidnapping civilians. We as a public cannot pass this by silently. It cannot be that people who incite terror and murder are roaming free here, we must put an end to this.""
MK Nachman Shai (Labor): "I thought to myself, in a country that has already gone through several things in its life, why is this event different and different? I think it's thanks to the families, they radiate something different. They radiated patience, tolerance, support, and gave the government and the army the necessary space to do the job. They didn't rush or push. Even now, their behavior is different from what we are used to, and thanks to them, a country that has gone through so much terror knows how to treat this event with all its weight and also see it in the broader context. I thank these families because we all know that it could have been completely different.""
MK Pnina Tamano Shetha (Yesh Atid): "The world knows that this is the murderous face of Hamas, like any other terrorist organization, which sows incitement and the murder of innocent children. We must ensure that such a case does not happen again.""
Knesset Speaker Yuli Yoel Edelstein summed up the discussion and said: "I think the influence of the families is also evident in this discussion today because I think if they were asked, they would say that the will is to continue unity not only in moments of crisis, and that is a very important message.
"My office has already received many letters from heads of parliaments and international organizations that strongly condemn the murder of the children and express our solidarity with the people of Israel, and I am sure that these are only the first letters. I hope that these families have influenced not only us, but that their influence will also be noticeable throughout the world.""
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