The most popular program in the media today is called "Let Someone Talk" or "All Talk and More Talk" or "Talk to Lampe.".
So many people, experts in their own right and on behalf of their PR people, fill every spare hour in every remote studio and talk themselves to death. Most of them talk and recycle the nonsense that brought upon us the Oslo disaster and the other disasters that have haunted us since. Just like a dog sitting on a keel, they recite hollow slogans that it seems they don't believe either.
Zehava Galon, Tamar Zandenberg and others manage to drive me crazy, and the one who brings my jannah to a boiling point is MK "Mr." Merav Michaeli.
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This woman is toothless. She has no way of stopping the nonsense that comes out of her mouth. "If only we had sat down with them to negotiate" and other stupid, gibberish sentences that indicate a lack of understanding of reality and manage to turn me on (and I'm usually a very calm person).
The media, mistakenly called "Israeli," continues to weaken the spirit of the people, weaken the hands of the precious IDF soldiers, and exhaust listeners and viewers with insane amounts of defeatism, deceit, and one-sided presentation.
Dozens of terrorist incidents occur every day on the roads of Samaria, in the Upper Galilee, in Jerusalem, the Holy City, in Jaffa, and even in Tel Aviv, and they receive not even a minor mention in the media, which continues to sell the public the lie of peace.
It's lucky that Hamas doesn't cooperate with them and continues to prove that Tel Aviv is the same as Netzarim.
Most of the speakers are men full of self-importance, graduates of military doctrine, who were apparently lax even during their military service. "Terror cannot be defeated," "there is no military solution," and similar sentences that have one conclusion - they are stupid, and it is not at all clear how we entrusted our fate to them and paid them a meager salary, while they had no intention of protecting us.
Police officers are ordered to withdraw from territory under Israeli sovereignty. In the neighborhoods of the Seam, Jews are beaten, stones are thrown at them, fireworks are fired at them, and the state "contains" what it calls "riots" and not "popular uprisings," as the rioters themselves call what they are doing.
The media, as expected, cooperates and does not bother to reveal the mask over the leadership's defeatist face.
It is true that from time to time a ray of light shines through the media's clouded consciousness, and people like Sharon Gal, Emily Ambrosi, and others manage to make the sane voice of the Jewish state heard. It is true that even the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense manage to muster a little Jewish courage, but the media manages to obscure this too through cynicism and raised eyebrows.
In short, we began the Book of Deuteronomy. Talk and more talk. Humanitarian and non-interventionist truces, words and phrases that come to us in the blood of soldiers.
Explicit Halacha
But if we have already become accustomed to the general media being unable to report the truth and unable to present positions that contradict the distorted and defeatist agenda, it is impossible to get used to the absence of courageous Haredi media.
Where is the Haredi watchdog? In which Haredi newspaper did you read an editorial calling on public representatives to stand up and strike for the sin of supporting the expulsion of the Jews of the Gaza Strip, which brought upon us the threat of missiles and tunnels?
Where have you read a comprehensive, incisive, and thorough investigation into the implications of the votes of representatives of the ultra-Orthodox public on security issues? Where have you heard an interviewee squirm on live broadcast in the face of an interviewer's difficult questions?
There is no such thing. The Haredi media prefers to bury its head in the zero-VAT law and the persecution of the Torah world by the heir of Tommy, but does not utter a word when our public representatives are willing to risk the lives of millions of Jews in exchange for lentil stew (entry into the government and a few hundred million for yeshivahs).
This week we will mark nine years since the expulsion of the Jews of the Gaza Strip. The expulsion of Jews by Jews for the first time in history. An impressive achievement for the Sharon government under the auspices of ultra-Orthodox representatives.
In less than two weeks, we will mark the 85th anniversary of the massacre in Hebron, Jerusalem, Safed, Haifa, Jaffa and other places across the country, and it seems that no one will rise up and remove the veil from our eyes. Like in the story of the emperor's new clothes.
Don't we have brave journalists who will stand up and tell the story of the Arab uprising of 1974?
Are there no editors with a backbone who would clarify that in order for there to be a Torah world, the lives of Torah students must be protected? What good will budgets for yeshivahs be when rioters attack them as they did less than a century ago in Hebron?
And what hurts the most is to discover that our own journalist writes in the general press that "we didn't know what was going on under the spotlight.".
What didn't we know?! We didn't listen!
The settlers of the Gaza Strip shouted over and over again that they were defending with their bodies the safety of the residents of the center. They repeated over and over again the scenario that was coming true before our eyes and we didn't know?!
When will we finally understand that the entire Land of Israel is a "city adjacent to a village" in accordance with the law ruled in the Shulchan Aruch (Sabbath laws)?
For the benefit of those Haredi public representatives and Haredi journalists who prefer to escape to more interesting topics, such as Lapid's stupid VAT law, I chose to quote the aforementioned halakhah. Below:
""Foreigners who besiege the towns of Israel, if they come for financial business, they do not desecrate the Sabbath against them, and if they come for personal business, and even if they come simply and there is a suspicion that they have come for personal business, and even if they have not yet come but are about to come, they go out against them with weapons of war and desecrate the Sabbath against them. And in the city next to the book, even if they do not want to come except for business of straw and chaff, they desecrate the Sabbath against them, lest they capture the city, and from there the land will be easy to conquer before them.".
Why didn't a single journalist stand up and ask our representatives, who were elected by our votes, how they could close their eyes and ignore explicit policy?.
Why hasn't a single Haredi representative stood up and condemned the sin of supporting (or avoiding) the Rabin and Sharon governments, which inflicted this disaster on us that endangers the lives of millions of Jews?
Take advantage of the opportunity
But, on second thought, it is precisely in these days, days of destruction and devastation for the people of Israel, that we must see the positive side of this nation. Recently, we have witnessed manifestations of unity that have not existed in this nation since the difficult days of waiting on the eve of the Six-Day War.
The expressions of solidarity for hundreds and thousands, expressed in assistance to soldiers, the wounded, and bereaved families, in the love between one person and another, and in the mobilization of the ultra-Orthodox public in prayer, study, and good deeds in honor of the soldiers who give their lives to protect the people who live in Zion, are the evidence that the State of Israel is alive and that they have not lost their loyalty to the land.
Here is a story I heard and did not check its reliability.
An incident in a yeshiva that took it upon itself to add to the lessons in honor of the soldiers in Gaza. Each student took the name of a soldier and dedicated the additional lessons to his honor. One of the soldiers was wounded during the fighting and it later turned out that the student who took it upon himself to learn in his honor was negligent in his work...
Whether this story is true or delusional, there is no doubt that the social cohesion of the last two months, which began with the kidnapping of the three saints, may God avenge their blood, is a golden opportunity for us. An opportunity to bring the hearts of Israel closer to their Father in Heaven.
I have witnessed dozens of women who have begun lighting Shabbat candles every Friday. I have heard of dozens of Jews who have begun putting on tefillin every morning, and stories of acts of kindness and assistance are multiplying day by day.
All these rights, all these prayers, the study of Torah done with the intention of protecting the people of Israel, everything about everything adds up to the right and further accelerates the true and complete redemption. Nothing is lost.
The writer is the owner of "My Choice", an event host, lecturer, and radio broadcaster.
