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Israel Abandoned My Son Out of Fear
Simha Goldin
October 26, 2023

People ask me, how does a prophet of the apocalypse feel when his prophecies come true? Or how does a historian feel when he holds up a mirror to leadership and they ignore or shatter it? How does a bereaved father feel when he points to the completely mistaken concept of achieving “quiet” at the cost of abandoning any security value, and yet the military and political leadership dismissively mutters, “He’s just a bereaved father.” My response is always the same: Those who abandon the dead will abandon the wounded and the living. By bolstering Hamas, we invited their aggression. And as we’ve learned, there’s no barrier impervious to a determined enemy. READ MORE

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