האם הצבא מאבד עצבים

Palestinians say the IDF fired on journalist Sheerin Abu Akala, the IDF says Palestinians oppose a joint investigation that will determine who shot. And we, the public, cannot know who shot the journalist. Is there a chance that the Palestinians fired Abu Akala? There is certainly a chance, because they are firing in all directions, especially in the northern West Bank, with and without the IDF's involvement in counter-terrorism operations supported by most of the Israeli public. But is it possible that the army lost nerves, and fired in the direction of the press team, headed by Abu Akala?

We do not know the answer. But in a video that the Palestinian television station uploaded to the Internet about five years ago, and as for a screenshot of it attached here, an IDF soldier is seen aiming a rifle loaded at the head of a Palestinian TV reporter. And it looks completely like a loss of temper. The soldier did not fire. We hope that Abu Akala was not shot by an IDF soldier either.

Why should the army lose nerves since it is skilled in its procedures as an important body in a democratic state? Because it is conducted according to regulations and procedures that prevent a value collapse and nerves, and which derive from the laws of Israeli democracy, but it is also composed of people. And this sword of turbulent emotions is always hoisted over his head and over our heads as a society. Because people are naturally affected by the behavior of the other side: from the endless threats of extermination that the Palestinians and their allies launch at Israel, From the bloodthirsty murder and slaughter of unarmed civilians from the back, in axes, in knives in firearms and in bombs with nails, from the Palestinian curriculum, which despises Jews and Judaism, who does not recognize the Jewish history that preceded Islam by thousands of years, who does not recognize the property connection of the Jews to the Land of Israel and the Temple Mount that existed on the mountain and in the streets thousands of years before Islam came into being, In public behavior that does not recognize the Balfour Declaration, or the United Nations resolution, or the political recognition of all the countries of the world, and it repeatedly tells Palestinian children in classrooms and on "educational" television screens that they will "return" to all the territories of Israel, from Tel Aviv to the Jordan River.

But does the Israeli army have the luxury of losing its temper? Can the Israeli public suffer the loss of its army's minds? No, the public cannot, because such a collapse in values ​​could lead to the collapse of the public, which is already politically and socially divided. The only way for the IDF to continue to win, and to fulfill its national role, is to preserve the democratic standards and the values ​​of the Jewish heritage. This is to protect Israel, and itself.