Uri Tuval the Fascist on Unauthorized Outposts in Judea and Samaria
Meet Uri Tuval, on the left here. He is the assistant editor of Haaretz newspaper's supplemental section. He is 36, successful, and single, according to his Facebook profile.
Meet Eliraz Peretz (right, top) and Roi Klein (right, bottom). They are fallen IDF Majors who built their homes in the unauthorized outpost of Givat HaYovel just outside the town of Eli. Eliraz Peretz was killed in battle barely two weeks ago with those who, if they could, would go on a mass-murder binge against any Jewish person within weapons range. Roi Klein was killed in 2006 during the Second Lebanon War as he jumped on a grenade thrown by the enemy while screaming Shema Yisrael, saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. Peretz left behind a widow and three children. Klein, a widow plus two.
Meet Eliraz Peretz (right, top) and Roi Klein (right, bottom). They are fallen IDF Majors who built their homes in the unauthorized outpost of Givat HaYovel just outside the town of Eli. Eliraz Peretz was killed in battle barely two weeks ago with those who, if they could, would go on a mass-murder binge against any Jewish person within weapons range. Roi Klein was killed in 2006 during the Second Lebanon War as he jumped on a grenade thrown by the enemy while screaming Shema Yisrael, saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. Peretz left behind a widow and three children. Klein, a widow plus two.
Uri Tuval had this to say about Eliraz Peretz:
“I don’t want to live in the country of Captain Eliraz Peretz or his mother. My consolations to the family…a family of Jihadist Fascists, and don’t dare let anyone say he was killed for my sake.”
Suprising to say, but I am not really offended by this. I am not offended because it is simply rambling nonsense blurted glibly in a moment of emotional instability. Jihadists are those who believe that all who do not follow the tenets of the religion they practice should be murdered. Peretz and Klein were religious Jews, but they didn't believe that non-Jews should be murdered, and I suspect Uri Tuval knows this. Fascists are those who believe that the State is above all else, and as mentioned before, Peretz and Klein built their homes in an outpost unauthorized by the State. Uri Tuval knows this, too. In fact, he uses this fact as his justification for his outburst.
“I can’t bear that "People of Israel- Land of Israel- Defense Forces of Israel-Israel’s children-Sanctification of G-d’s name" mantra. The officer who was killed had built his home in an illegal outpost. Is that rational? The religious Zionists have turned the IDF into a tool for their political goals, they endanger all of us, and also cause more of their group to be killed. And when they are killed, they talk about it. When they do that, we are allowed to think about it and respond.”
That is what offends me. It offends me because unlike rambling insanity that is easily rejected, this is much more insidious. It's a predictable shame that all the hype is being focused on his "jihadist-fascist" remark, and not on his overall worldview, which causes these outbursts.
Tuval, as he writes, cannot stand the sanctification of God's name. He doesn't like that "mantra". And he believes that the fact that he built his home in an unauthorized outpost shows that he turned the IDF into a tool for his political goals.
Live in an unauthorized outpost, die for your country, "sanctify God's name," and then perpetuate your evil scheme of living in unauthorized outposts by inspiring others who will then go and die for the same evil scheme.
This is Tuval's argument. Let's break it down for a minute. The evil scheme he accuses Peretz and Klein of perpetuating is living in an area unauthorized by the state. Unauthorized by whom, exactly? The answer is, Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Since none of Judea and Samaria has been annexed by the State, the political head of the army, the defense minister, must sign the final permit for building on any given piece of land in that territory.
One could extrapolate from here that if Ehud Barak just signs the permit, Eliraz Peretz and Roi Klein are no longer evildoers, and that's why Tuval hates the mantra "sanctify God's name," since it's not God's name that matters. It's Ehud Barak's name that really counts. For Uri Tuval, Ehud Barak is God. That offends me as a Jew.
And what is Ehud Barak? He is the State. And for Tuval, the State is above all else.
Who's the Fascist now?
And one more thing: Tuval accuses God-fearing Jews of turning the IDF into a political tool. I agree with him. God-fearing Jews turn the IDF into the political tool that sanctifies the name of God to the world and makes the Jewish people into a proud political unit.
My political goal is to fix the world in the Kingdom of God.
What's yours, Uri Tuval?
Suprising to say, but I am not really offended by this. I am not offended because it is simply rambling nonsense blurted glibly in a moment of emotional instability. Jihadists are those who believe that all who do not follow the tenets of the religion they practice should be murdered. Peretz and Klein were religious Jews, but they didn't believe that non-Jews should be murdered, and I suspect Uri Tuval knows this. Fascists are those who believe that the State is above all else, and as mentioned before, Peretz and Klein built their homes in an outpost unauthorized by the State. Uri Tuval knows this, too. In fact, he uses this fact as his justification for his outburst.
“I can’t bear that "People of Israel- Land of Israel- Defense Forces of Israel-Israel’s children-Sanctification of G-d’s name" mantra. The officer who was killed had built his home in an illegal outpost. Is that rational? The religious Zionists have turned the IDF into a tool for their political goals, they endanger all of us, and also cause more of their group to be killed. And when they are killed, they talk about it. When they do that, we are allowed to think about it and respond.”
That is what offends me. It offends me because unlike rambling insanity that is easily rejected, this is much more insidious. It's a predictable shame that all the hype is being focused on his "jihadist-fascist" remark, and not on his overall worldview, which causes these outbursts.
Tuval, as he writes, cannot stand the sanctification of God's name. He doesn't like that "mantra". And he believes that the fact that he built his home in an unauthorized outpost shows that he turned the IDF into a tool for his political goals.
Live in an unauthorized outpost, die for your country, "sanctify God's name," and then perpetuate your evil scheme of living in unauthorized outposts by inspiring others who will then go and die for the same evil scheme.
This is Tuval's argument. Let's break it down for a minute. The evil scheme he accuses Peretz and Klein of perpetuating is living in an area unauthorized by the state. Unauthorized by whom, exactly? The answer is, Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Since none of Judea and Samaria has been annexed by the State, the political head of the army, the defense minister, must sign the final permit for building on any given piece of land in that territory.
One could extrapolate from here that if Ehud Barak just signs the permit, Eliraz Peretz and Roi Klein are no longer evildoers, and that's why Tuval hates the mantra "sanctify God's name," since it's not God's name that matters. It's Ehud Barak's name that really counts. For Uri Tuval, Ehud Barak is God. That offends me as a Jew.
And what is Ehud Barak? He is the State. And for Tuval, the State is above all else.
Who's the Fascist now?
And one more thing: Tuval accuses God-fearing Jews of turning the IDF into a political tool. I agree with him. God-fearing Jews turn the IDF into the political tool that sanctifies the name of God to the world and makes the Jewish people into a proud political unit.
My political goal is to fix the world in the Kingdom of God.
What's yours, Uri Tuval?
posted by Rafi Farber @ 12:43 PM
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In the interest of truth and completemess, you should include Tuval's letter of apology to Miriam Peretz, which is available at Arutz Sheva (israelnationalnews.com).
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