So let's be real.
Three months ago, we celebrated the Day of Remembrance for the fallen IDF soldiers here. All the paparazzi photographers took to the streets to hunt down ultra-Orthodox people who don't stand by the siren. Who don't respect the memory of the fallen.
But someone needs to stand up and declare the blatant lie and blindfold that the government is telling an entire nation, when it tells all of us that on this day it honors the memory of our soldiers who died defending the State of Israel.
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I do not mean, of course, that the lie is on the part of our holy and pure soldiers. God is my witness that my heart has been broken for almost a month for every pure soldier of ours who walked bravely and willingly to protect me and you.
The lie is in the government's attitude towards the war.
The first unnecessary injustice was dealing with the stench of Gaza with a ground operation, risking our noble soldiers in vain. The second and worst injustice of all is in stopping the treatment: If you have already entered and taken the risk, what is the point of leaving before destroying Hamas to the ground?! What is the ridiculous ceasefire before stopping the rocket fire on Israel?!
All these people sat in the Mamidim, acting like the most amazing home front in the world, and only prayed in their hearts that this time they would do what was necessary. And now, on the next Memorial Day, Sean, Adar, and Oron will join this new list of soldiers on the list of the fallen. And the devastated mothers, brothers, fathers, and fiancées will join the bereaved family.
Why? For what?!
So don't tell me that the Haredim don't respect. The whole concept is rotten. Jewish life continues to be ridiculed and persecuted, only this time from within. The world is destroying us from the outside and we are helping it from the inside. Every now and then we ask for permission to make a humanitarian gesture with ourselves and act as if we are fighting. But not really. This time we have achieved peace for a long period! Hurray! And I am more anxious about this peace than about this morning's barrage of missiles. I am anxious about the next round, and what it will bring with it.
Our beloved and dear soldiers. On a day like Tishrei, you must be doing a parade in the sky. Standing tense and proud under the throne of honor. Please don't forget us down here, call on Eyal, Naftali and Gilad, call on Sheli Dadon and the Vogel family, call on baby Shelhevet Pes, and on all six million. Prepare the parade of life!
Tell the Creator that He has placed a blind shepherd at the head of the flock for us. That we are helpless in the face of everything that happens. That we chose differently. That we are hungry for the bread of the face, and in general for the face of the face, otherwise why all this book of faces?! Tell them that Tet Bab is a great day to surprise and that we trust in the Creator who knows how to prepare a great party.
And you should know, dear soldiers, that we all know. The fact that this weak government sent you to die for nothing does not count, because man sees with the eyes and God with the heart. Because your heart was ready to die not for temporary peace. But for true security. And that is how we will remember you. And not only on Memorial Day.
