A Path to Peace or Prolonging the Conflict?
By Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt
The late Geula Cohen, a Likud member of Knesset was asked how she would react if her son, who at the time was serving in the IDF in Lebanon was captured. She replied that she would stand outside the Knesset and join the protestors in shouting and demanding that the Government do whatever it takes to get her son released. And then, she would go inside the Knesset and take her place in the parliament and tell her colleagues not to listen to the demonstrators outside.
Such is the dilemma facing Israel, and it explains why one cannot help but harbor mixed emotions over the current deal.
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