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A Frustrated Jew!

Question

Hello Rabbi,
As a decent Jew living here in the country, I look around,
and the nerves and boiling blood from the situation our state is in make me furious and pained…
In a situation where a conquered people lives under us, are we doomed to the point that Jewish blood is completely ownerless?
The feeling is that not enough is being done!!!
No expulsion of families!!! No death penalty!!! No deterrence!!!
Ayman Odeh calls for rebellion, and Ahmad Tibi consoles the families of terrorists, and instead of sitting in prison for incitement they are members of Knesset?!
Mosques under Israeli control praise terror attacks and the police do not shut off the loudspeakers?!
What peace and what agreement can possibly be imagined when in Tulkarm and Ramallah and countless villages they dance and hand out candy after every attack?!
Why is the Sheikh of Jerusalem preaching murder and not in prison?
Why don’t they shoot in the head anyone who so much as picks up a stone?
Arab society is rotten from the foundation, from its education. A society that teaches that if life is a little hard, you can take an axe and chop off Jews’ heads?
Arabs attack police officers with stones and Molotov cocktails and are met with nothing but restraint and more restraint.
Is there a solution? A practical one?
Is what’s needed a strong and tough hand?
And if so, then why the hell aren’t they already doing it?
Why does it feel like the situation just keeps dragging on and on, while meanwhile Jews are being killed for dinner?
Why don’t we learn our lesson?
If you have a recommendation for a good book surveying the issue of the conflict, I’d be happy to hear.
 
 
 

Answer

I don’t. have a book recommendation, and I don’t see how such a book would help you. Personally, I agree with most of what you say. As for a strong hand, though, that needs qualification; it is really not certain that it would help. Dictators greater than we are have not succeeded with a heavy hand in the long run. A heavy hand merely to satisfy public anger and boiling blood is not a recommended policy. I wrote my view on this in Column 149 (and also 389).

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