Former MK Hendel: every value today is a war

• Author: Hezki Baruch
• Date: 11 March 2021
• Published date: 11 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

"Throughout all governments, we have had bitter political, religious and state struggles with the left and we have not apologized for that," Hendel said.

In his remarks, Hendel notes, "Left-wing figures such as Shulamit Aloni, Uri Avnery, Ran Cohen and the late Yossi Sarid have had radical leftist agendas perhaps even more than today, as many did before the Oslo Accords, Gush Katif, and even during the first Intifada. However, in recent years, the discourse on the part of the left has gone from feminism to secularism to blatant anti-Zionism."

"Today a war is waged over all the values that were once taken for granted. The distance from any Zionist value grows steadily, as we have seen in the unfortunate statements of leftists in favor of a criminal investigation by statesmen and military personnel in the International Court of Justice," Hendel says.

"In our time, the whole issue of aggressive intervention by European governments and Christian and progressive foundations in Israeli society did not exist, and even if present, it was certainly not in the formidable intensities we experience today, in all aspects of Israeli society."

"Is it conceivable that the Israeli government would have intervened in the ongoing conflict in Catalonia or in the re-education of the Chinese? We are witnessing a war of consciousness that has undermined the Jewish democratic foundations of the State of Israel in order to become a people like all other peoples, despite the significantly decreasing numerical power of the other side," states Hendel.

"The vast majority of the world intuitively understands that every people has a right to exist on its own, understands what a family is and does not connect that to politics. Identities. I think keeping our tradition is not darkness, it is light."

"I appreciated Donald Trump's conduct for despising the politically correct notion that it is appropriate to rebuke people who hold traditional or conservative worldviews," Hendel says. "Throughout history, great and powerful forces from those elements have tried to erase the national and Jewish power of the State of Israel. The same attempts to undermine the values of tradition and family and the introduction of secular...