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| Dafna Meir (HY"D) and husband Natan Meir. |
There comes a time when you have to speak the truth. And the truth is singular. There isn't one
truth for me and my people, and another for the Arabs. There isn't #MyJudaism
or #MyIsrael, but only one Judaism, one Israel, one God.
It is only by embracing the truth and spreading it far and
wide, no matter who it offends, no matter how many detractors it has, that
peace will have a safe space to flower.
Peace will not flower among the lies. It is the lies that
will proliferate like weeds, to choke out the truth, and take away its
airspace. Lies must be rooted out and destroyed.
It's the only chance we have.
Judaism: An Affront to Replacement Theologies
Another woman has been murdered. Not because she is an
Israeli and not because she lived on a settlement. She was murdered because she
was Jewish and her religion is perceived as an affront to adherents of Islam, a
religion that was meant to supplant Judaism, just as Christianity was meant to
supplant Judaism.
That Dafna Meir's murderer wants the land she lived on is
unquestionable. And yet, it is beside the point. What her murderer wants is to
eradicate the presence of Jews in the world.
Dafna, May Hashem avenge her blood, was a symbol of a truth
that came hard to her murderer, that Jews existed before Mohammed was a gleam
in his mother's eyes, and will continue to exist forever.
We will NOT be eradicated.
And there will always be a small number of people who refuse
to accept the lie that there is more than one truth. There will always be
people who know, deep in their hearts, that the land belongs only to the Jews
and to no one else. There will always be people who know the difference between
a narrative and the truth.
There will always be people who know that strength is found
in numbers and that we must be on our own side. That no one else will be on our
side except for us. It will always be true that if you excuse murderers, you
will have removed the thin veneer that lies between good and evil, and crossed
over to the other side.
There is no people who is occupied except for the Jews who
are occupied by a brutal and murderous people whom the world supports. In doing
so, the world is supporting the side of evil, as surely and plainly as the nose
on your face.
The Truth: Neither Hashtagged Nor My-Centric
There are no two truths, two narratives. No hashtagged
thing that is my-centric. There is one
single truth, and one single side for good.
And that is a good thing, a wonderful thing. For truth is a
powerful thing, as long as you give it air and space to breathe. Give it room
to flower by pulling out the lies by their roots, leaving not even a thin
tendril of untruth behind.
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| "Dafna had a large crown: the crown of truth." |
Today, at the funeral of his wife, Natan Meir
said, "Dafna had a large crown: the crown of truth," Natan said.
"She was very honest, as accurate as a razor. Not everyone liked that but
everyone was able to appreciate it, and this truth has now been thrown to the
ground, it has burst into smithereens.
"I request that everyone who came out here, pick up
something from the light that was spilled on the ground, so that truth may
spring from the earth."
For Dafna's sake, let us speak loud and clear. Let us preach
the truth no matter how vigorously they oppose us, revile us, laugh at us,
troll us.
Israel is ours and they may not have it. It is not theirs. Full
stop.
Because there is only one truth, one God, one Judaism. And
the God of the Jews gave the land to Children of Israel.
And not to anyone else.
