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Dror Eydar. Source: LinkedIn.

Dror Eydar

Dror Eydar is Israel’s ambassador to Italy

The left does not have a monopoly on morality, and we have never charged it with ensuring that Israeli politics remains kosher.
As far as the left is concerned, those on the right have always been fascists, neo-Nazis, messianic and a bunch of other curses.
The denial of national feeling was a replay of the denial of religious feeling, which had been banished after the secular and scientific revolutions. Even atheists can acknowledge the organizing function served by faith and religion.
Indeed, what are the laws of Israel to us if he knows better than we do what should be done, and can establish a “state within a state,” and steal our sovereignty as citizens to decide our future and our fate?
It is time for religious Zionism to come into its own as a movement that includes many different worldviews, rather than risk splitting the conservative-right vote among increasingly specific sectors, which could wind up putting the left into power.
A group of former Israeli generals and defense officials wants Israel to “divorce” the Palestinians, but they clearly fail to understand history • Our vast experience teaches us that Arabs have always rejected compromise; the conflict isn’t territorial.
Another lesson that is much more self-evident in our region than in Europe: Bloody conflicts cannot be resolved merely by entering negotiations and signing a piece of paper that is destined to lay abandoned in an archive, a silent witness to the folly of our leaders.
What is keeping Gaza from becoming the Singapore of the Middle East? Who is using the millions of aid money sent to Gaza to dig tunnels to commit murder and terrorist acts?
The liberal-left democracy is actually a secular religion that sees itself as “humanist” and engages in behavior very similar to conventional religion. It has temples, priests and religious authorities.
To be considered innocent until proven guilty is not a privilege, it is a moral right.
The raging dispute over the nation-state law blows a debate that has been quashed and suppressed in public discourse for years wide open—Judaism not as a religion, but as a civilization, and the central responsibility of Israel for its continued existence.
Tisha B’Av, is not a religious day in the narrow sense of the term. The destruction of the Second Temple wasn’t just the destruction of the Temple itself, but of our national homeland.