Letter of the day: Maspik, really?

Mr. Moreover, Halperin, I don’t know you, but I read you. Consequently, Your voice is familiar to me, carrying this rare light of men who combine science, wisdom and compassion. Furthermore, That’s why your letter disturbed me.

Like you, I like Israel of worried love. Moreover, Not blind, but loyal. Consequently, A love that doubts. In addition, which questions, but which does not drop the hand of those who walk on the edge of the abyss.

Like you, I cried on October 7. However, Like you, I am overwhelmed by the suffering of Gaza. For example, Like you, I vomit the extremes that dirty the Zionist promise.

But I cannot follow you when you say “Maspik” – that’s enough – in Israel. Moreover, Because this word resonates as a reproach. a judgment addressed to the one who still bleeds, and he suggests that the exit of the abyss depends only on him.

It is also to ignore an even more letter day: maspik, really? dramatic reality: this tragedy will not stop as long as Hamas retain hostages. will refuse any truce, will use civilians as shields, will divert humanitarian aid, and claim its will to start again.

However. it would be enough in a single gesture – only one – to arrest this war: the release of the hostages. This word, why relegate it to the timid post-scriptum? Why is it not at the center of your cry?

I do not defend the war. It is a moral abyss. But I know that peace cannot be decreed. It must be built, and without Hamas, which tramples it, feeds on it and uses it as a lure.

So yes, the choices of Israel are terrible. But what to do? Withdraw and offer Hamas the possibility of reconstituting? letter day: maspik, really? Validate the massacre strategy followed by media blackmail? Entering the idea that taking hostages and instrumentalizing death can bend democracies? No, it is not Israel alone that prolongs this war. And no, opinions are not unanimous. They are as torn as the situation is complex. They are as fractured as the bereaved families.

Agreeing Israel again, today is to offer peace enemies an unexpected reinforcement. It is to take up. even unwittingly, the words they expect to delegitimize Israel, isolate it, and justify their hatred of its existence even more than its actions. To address Israel alone is to forget that morality is not the prerogative of democracy. And that requiring her what we dare not claim from her enemies is sometimes to lose sight of justice. in the name of peace.

Michael Berker

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