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Conversation - Tzur Goldin, brother of Hadar Goldin, who was murdered & is being held by Hamas
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A painful conversation on Tisha B'Av with Tzur Goldin, fraternal twin brother of Hadar Goldin, who was murdered and is being held by Hamas. Six years later they have yet to return his body against basic ethics and international law. For more content, visit https://www.rabbiefremgoldberg.org.
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okay sure it's um
it's good to see you again for you it's
already after tisha b'av for us we are
in the afternoon
after khasaot we've we've set up we're
sitting on chairs and
we're seeking but we're still in the
heart of tisha b'av and we want to thank
you
for joining us it's it's good to see you
again so it was in our community earlier
this year
and i want to thank you for joining us
for this discussion which i know is not
easy which is painful
which on the one hand opens old wounds
and also
continues to feel the pain of current
wounds that have not yet closed before
we begin
i just remind everyone that sure is the
fraternal twin brother of hadar golden
hashem yokom damo
they were both officers and elite units
in gaza um
six years ago 2014 operation protective
edge and
we all remember we can never forget that
during a supposed cease-fire that was
brokered by the united nations hadar was
ambushed and killed
and his body was taken was kidnapped by
hamas and here we are six years later
and still they have not released his
body that returns his body so unjust
against international law against any
code of ethics or morality
so unbearably painful we know for you
and your family
and for any decent good people anywhere
in the world who uh his murder itself
is abhorrent intolerable but the fact
that his body hasn't been returned
among the many things we sit low to the
ground and we cry and we grieve about
this tisha b'av
is your brother is your brother and the
inability for you and your family to
really be able to grieve
the way you deserve to do so for him so
i want to thank you as i said for for
joining us for this conversation i know
it's not easy for you
um but maybe we can begin sewer by by
telling us a little bit about your
brother about hadar about what it was
like growing up with him
about who he was and and for the world
for us on this tisha b'av
to understand and appreciate what was
stolen from us what was wrong from us
what we're missing
okay thank you rabbi goldberg
so i'm pleased to be here um in this
special day
and i feel um
with uh i i feel very honored to be
specifically in these times where the
big missions of our nation
we should think about uh all
the bigger things about uh
uh make uh fish about our path
and uh and i'm humbled to be here
and as a part of uh discussion that
we're doing together in this uh
holy day uh i think it's
one of maybe the holiest day for me
and uh and i feel honored to speak about
tada and i do it with the great humility
even though uh for me it's the world so
thank you for having me just start from
that so
i'm the twin brother of hadar golden uh
i'm 29 years old now already
uh when when haddad was kidnapped and
killed
i was 23 years old commander in the idf
and ever since i've been a part of the
long and hard uh tiring journey of
bringing
him back home and we were fortunate to
have your community
uh i'm talking to people who don't know
me yet but
we're fortunate to feel part of the
family
and and also lucky enough to have your
support
many times um and
so this was a short brief about me we
were born hadar and i we are the
youngest of uh
in my family we were born in in the
western galilee north israel uh
in a very small place that uh put it
that uh had the goal of uh bringing
the team and hiloni and religious people
and secular people together
was specifically designed for that it
was a very small issue with
uh very happy people
with a very strong emission it was the
first uh yeshuv
that was like that and this this was the
atmosphere that we grew up with
and my father is an historian my mother
is a
computer scientist he builds she builds
rockets and he
is a historian and and
i grew in an environment we also spent
three years in england in cambridge uk
as part of my father's uh
sabbatical and so we grew up in an
environment that uh
gave us the mission and quest to feel as
an ambassadors
everywhere as uh
the team uh with the unity
a very big saying that you say in bina
kiva that in hebrew you say
and there's a makaf there's a
line in between and we were taught that
that's your mission that's how you grow
up you are the
the makaf the the small airline that
is in between and this is uh
um so this this was the mission and that
was a very bright young boy he had a
very
unique talent for drawing and designing
and he wrote comics and he wrote very
impressive piece of art up until his
very young age of
18 he was a known artist and
we are lucky to have a lot of uh
a lot of yetzirot a lot of things he
created
with us he was also a brilliant
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advisor in the youth movement and he was
a teacher
in in heart and an educator in heart and
when we grew up we went to pre-military
in shiv academy we studied in the ali
and when we were 20 years old we
recruited the military i was in
maglan but was in syret givati it was a
mitstayan
right already and he straight away
people understood that this is a very
unique kind of guy with a quest
uh to educate and he lived
uh up to up to it a lot of times
i'll give only two brief examples
wrote a lot of things he didn't write it
for people to see but uh
it was more i'll bring i'll bring it
i have it with me but he he wrote in his
siddul
everywhere he went a lot of lines that
uh
that for him alone okay so uh
one of them was a prayer before he
started the old villa the first was
shivity
but the the passages are one of them is
this is this is what is the one of the
cedaws
um and it's it's something that uh went
on with him and when you
read it and put it in your heart you
understand that it's
something very unique the second is uh
he wrote osva and avon his rifle strap
uh strength and humility i don't know if
it's the correct definition but it's the
best that
we found um because we truly believed
that uh the idf uh soldier
is is uh we should go back to our roots
every nation has its uh and don't know
gladiators
rambo uh all the patriots and all the
big warriors who set an example right
but what what are we bene david the
people of uh
israel what example do we set and he
thought about these two combinations
taken from the
siddha from from a
a very very old uh prayer that was
written
um it's a very very strong passage
written to
about two angels you know and we can
talked about the angels of course
according to
jewish tradition not the angels that are
you know
the the right uh what we called malachim
specifically in hebrew and ozba nevada
is two opposites that uh
cooperate and flatter each other and
this is the warrior
in israel um so
adol did a lot of stuff uh one of the
when we were very young in the
operations
was an innovator we i i was lucky enough
to be with him every step he went
but he thought of all sorts of ideas to
help people that are in
great danger or need help one of them
was the
operation of ferrari tsuka it was 2009 i
don't know if you remember the operation
in gaza
where he decided that uh all this there
were thousands of rockets i know this is
repetitive
but this was 2009 11 years ago
and he we opened the business that was
supposed to
bring all we were in you know the
big cities in israel and he did we
decided to take all the bakeries and all
the
supermarkets who had to close for just
over a month
and uh we took their all the uh
i don't know what's determining english
but all the merchandise they're
all the merchandise to jerusalem this is
a boy 17 year old boy
who thought about this
so you could only imagine what we feel
today
when you look at the quest to bring them
back home and we do do it properly and
do it in a way that saves lives in the
future
and also uh the feeling that we
stay with uh that is all about shared
fate
about achoot unity and uh
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rabbi i don't want to interfere i i i
want to follow your questions no no
problem
but there's uh also a very amazing
context uh about to shall we have
uh that i can also talk about uh when
when you
you will feel is right sure i wanted to
just follow first of all thank you for
sharing all of that because
what you described really is the most
appropriate for tisha b'av the notion of
your upbringing
in a place that's trying to bridge the
dating
that that that's why we don't have the
beta mcdosh and that's what it's going
to take to bring it back
is the ability to heal and to be united
and to be one
it's what your family has stood for it's
what hadar stood for
and how he is remembered and as you
described i mean i'm moved and i know
that everybody listening and watching is
moved
by what is inscribed in his what was
written on his
on his gun you know the image of a
jewish warrior which he was
in this elite unit and and a leader in
that unit
and coming out of ali both of you the
the image of the warrior is of a
someone who's a brute who's brutal right
who's but there's a soul
and an artist and a sweetness then a
poet that was inside him
which uh it just compounds the tragedy
the loss is so devastating because
how much did he have yet to write and to
do how much was yet to be said from his
siddur
and it's so tragic and it's so unjust
and as i said it's among the many things
that we mourn and grieve
uh you mentioned your father's a
historian and i know he wrote a book
about jewish martyrdom about jews who
gave their lives and when he did his
research and wrote that book
i'm sure he never dreamt that it would
be his own child it would be his own
family
so talk to us about this effort to bring
hadar home
i know that you and your family have
advocated for some change in the
in the policy um towards gaza towards
its leadership towards the international
community
um in terms of what it would take or how
we bring someone home and make sure that
that we never leave somebody ever alive
or even after life
so tell us about that change of what
you're advocating in terms of difference
in
in policy okay so i think it's very
important for the responders that we do
nations has benefits and
the way we set our mindset
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to very different issues this is one of
them
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about bringing soldiers who are left
behind
in the most i think one of the sacred
places that we
have in our hearts which are the
soldiers of the idf
this is one of the most uh solid
unifying uh
val i don't know if to call it a value
or
piece of our heart um for 40 to
just over 30 or 40 years israel has been
struggling
with the kidnapping terrorism it's a
type of terrorism that is aimed to break
our spirit as a nation
uh terrorist organizations and not only
in israel it's a global
issue seek to kidnap
soldiers and civilians in order for that
to be
a burden for us and assets for them
in order to gain political uh
political uh targets and in order to
break our
our spirits because they uh
put us into a position when we need to
choose
uh from two felonies one is uh
paying ransom with uh releasing
uh thousands of terrorists and the last
example was
the i don't think it's uh
it's just to say the gilad shalit but
that's how i remember because
he was a soldier and his family
he needed to come back home and he's now
he's building a
beautiful family in israel he doesn't
need to
he or his family need to pay a price for
different uh
decisions that the government or leader
has taken but
one over a thousand uh terrorists has
been released
and this is just an example of one
felony where you
release terrorist terrorists and uh
endanger
your own nation the other family is a
felony
is leaving him uh leaving soldiers
behind breaking the most basic
uh character that um
sorry about my english but the most
basic uh
the morale
30 or 40 years we have been struggling
with that it's
sometimes it had become a political
issue um
and now we were uh
unfortunate to to hold the
the present shift uh shift uh mishmagit
where uh you know i live in the
jerusalem i'm speaking from uh
uh from you know a lot of people have
lived there and family lived
uh so this is the feeling where now
we're in a very very
um important uh twist and change of tide
where israel has understood that this is
very
that this is a war that we are not
winning and
uh and so we are advocating to bring my
brother home because we reached
a situation where the mindset
is that uh leaving a soldier behind may
be possible
especially if it's a fallen soldier or
uh
or the chances and the risks are high
and
uh and we got to a position where hadao
my
beloved brother is held by this barbaric
terrorists and he's held there in a
place where we exactly know we know
where he is it's an
hour's drive from tel aviv uh we know
where
what the terrorists what are their
weaknesses we know uh
how this could be a solution and how can
can we flip the equation we can bring to
a point
where when a terrorist organization
doesn't kidnaps a soldier
or an israeli civilian that it's not an
asset for them but it can be a burden
and so we need to flip the equation make
them pay prices is not us
and this is a perfect uh situation where
peace could achieve peace and humanity
can achieve humanity
because the gaza strip hamas is a
terrorist entity of 30 000 terrorists
that's it
we call it the regional bully we hold
two million uh palestinian civilians
as hostages uh for a lot of cynical
reasons
and this is the a way where in the
situation especially when we're talking
about the
kuvit 19 and the crisis that is global
uh where israel could could uh reach for
another search with civilians when
another terrorists win
and so we go all around the world uh we
are dedicated to this mission
we will never stop until we bring my
brother
uh home and in that in a way
that secures uh the future of israeli
soldiers
families who will know that uh the
jewish nation and all the jewish
communities around the world
won't rest until soldiers are bringing
back behind and we know that when
when when you deal with when you even
talk about the situation about leaving a
soldier behind
consciously then you know it doesn't
really matter if it's a fallen soldier
or a wounded because when we know now
when we're dealing with a coronavirus
with the cuvette
that when you disrespect uh the the
fallen
and then you disrespect the wound you
will disrespect the wounded
and then you will end up uh disrespect
respecting life itself uh but with your
permission rabbi i will talk about the
context special context of uh
of tisha b'av so hadal was the
we were commemorating this week we were
commemorating his
fact that he was kidnapped and fallen in
a very special event
but uh the date of jesus christ his
commemoration
is and it's always in the middle of
tisha taymim and the context is very
strong because
especially towards what he stood up for
which is
israel and what we believe is the very
strong
and the but not
and at the same level the importance of
the fact
that our values our shared fate shared
values will be as strong as as solid
as possible the sense of shared faith
and the sense of bringing a soldier back
home
and there's a very and of course
tsuketan was in the middle of tisha b'av
and the day of uh what we called shiva
where we could
commemorate any sense of uh
commemorating uh the fact that he passed
away
uh was uh during those days and um
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also we are commemorating uh uh
these days 15 years for uh the pinoy of
gushkatif the region
that it was right in the middle of gaza
where over 5
500 000 civilians were evacuated or
moved
i don't want to use any i want to be
politically correct
but it was a very i think most of us
were here
it was a very disappointing a very big
sense of hobart doesn't matter if it was
with love
it doesn't matter if it was uh but it
was a very
huge sense of quran and nadal chose to
marry be engaged
with edna saw he was meant to uh
to marry uh to to
marry her three weeks after uh he has
fallen
and um and edna was
uh evacuated from uh when there was the
settlements in there
in mitslam in sinai but his family her
family and then they were vectored
then after that uh they were evacuated
they
evacuated from then and i was a
15 16 years old when that happened 15
years ago
14 i'm sorry for exaggerating 14 years
and during that time i remember growing
up and asking what happened to my nation
what happened to my beloved
values and the the title or
what leaded us is the fact that this
quban
has all to do with then he took it was
called eight night
the disengagement but we the the
the lesson that we took is that the
disengagement wasn't the disengagement
physical one
but it was a disengagement between the
religious torts
the parts that were in in uh 500
000 uh civilians all the families
the the the nituk they were between
different parts of israel one of them
was secular
the others were religious one
part of them were had a very very strong
sense of zionism
of they were sure of the way and the
others thought about other things
and the huge lesson that we learned is
to unify
and to to find a way to build bridges
and then to be as one and i think we
made a very long way now i know a lot of
you watch the media watch the news
i'm also very scared of what happens to
our sense of
our sense of unity
doesn't matter how well politicians do
politicians are here
and very they're here at the moment and
after
they will go someone else will
swap and change their and be in their
positions but
i i think that in these days where we
see a lot of protests
which are just for any this is our
hearts
being spoken a lot of pro protests and a
lot of people
with one uh um
the auth with the ocho note one of them
is more left one of those more right one
of them thinks about that and
the other um and there's also a sense of
and we are all around about how do we
keep this sacred
shared faith and the way that we are
together and i can tell you
that this is for me it it's all all
coming together the fact that
was fallen in in afiyah and it was only
about
less than a kilometer where uh
the yeshua that i once was the 15 years
old
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fiance was evacuated and the very place
where there are terrorists and you see
the
depravity of hamas the depravity between
people who who
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we have life and the sense of unity and
the lesson that we learn
from them and i can tell you
and in order to cheer you up that uh
when you look uh beyond what is in the
media
and all the sinha i can see the future
and we see
a lot of a young generation and when i'm
saying young generation i'm speaking
people
between 20 to the early 40s
people who were tired of hate
and who look at the future and what you
do your community
the the the way you i i was
in your community not too long ago a few
months ago with my uh
friends from my tevet we went through
very very hard times in
tsukitan lost a lot of friends and we
came for a
therapy in your community and uh we are
grateful and i can tell you this is only
one example but uh
the way you support in many different
ways uh the future
of israel and the future of our values
and i don't think you do it as in uh
you you you see you see through
everything you know the reality is not
always i think this is who
this is we we are not ignorant about our
reality we're not ignorant of
how things are and this is what i say a
lot of uh
times people ask me if the situation is
so terrible
how can you persist what is holding you
um all the time so what it's holding me
is that
the jewish nation we are holding about
what is ideal
not what's what is current and we
when we look around and we see faces
that together
when you persist and you go on for a
long journey
our values will be saved and our path
will be
it's sure to be good and uh
and and and we will find a way to not
only to cure our
uh wounds but also to set an example for
the entire world
absolutely sir you speak so beautifully
and your english is wonderful and you're
a great spokesperson for all that we
believe
and and for your brother we're not
hanging up don't worry don't look at
your watch yet we got a couple more
questions to go
but i wanna i wanna follow i know it's
late in israel but at least you've eaten
already
i wanna i wanna follow up i'm eating
already i had to
i had a cake and coffee you know tea
perfect where else cannot be here
and uh i mean my family we
drink a bit of tea and then cake and
then after that that's it you're good to
go
after the tea after you're good to go so
you know you mentioned turning the
policy on its head where
um when terrorists capture a soldier
alive or dead they're not in the
advantage they're in the disadvantage
because now they know they have to fear
and and that's a a wonderful vision um
and and that can be accomplished by
going in
by the israeli army going in to do what
they need to bring someone home
it can be accomplished by turning off
the power to gaza and say you're
violating international law
you have to deliver the body and until
you do we're cutting off the power
which many would object to as a communal
punishment and
something which is immoral and unjust
you know my question to you is
would you fear the international
community if one did that
would they say israel is the aggressor
and israel is practicing communal
punishment and israel is too aggressive
and disproportionate and so on all the
things that we've heard before
can the international community be
recruited to be part of the solution not
the problem
if this is in fact an international law
why do they allow terrorists
shouldn't they be holding these
terrorists accountable why aren't there
condemnations at the u.n
where is the american government i know
that you and your family have had many
meetings with elected leaders in america
and i know you have some allies and we'd
love to hear about them but
why why isn't the international
community doing more to say this is
against international law this is
unethical this is unjust it's wrong
it's simply wrong and you cannot border
you can't trade
we won't allow to negotiate with
terrorists we've seen what's happened in
the past when terrorists are released
it's simply not right what can we do to
raise our voice and to join yours
you know you were in our show every
every shabbat when the show is open in
operation
we say his name we dive in and we
of course the oven for for hadar as well
um but davening is is one thing we
appeal to to
hashem and we have to our tradition is
always taught we have to combine the
prayer with taking action
so where's the international community
who are the allies in the american
government what are they doing
and for our listeners who can help what
can we be doing what more can we do
in order to get this front and center it
should be the cover of the newspaper
every day it should be black and white
every person of a moral conscience
should be outspoken and say
adar golden's body needs to be back home
go back home
okay thank you for this question because
the international community not only
that it it's not a barrier uh it's the
key
for uh resolving this situation um
and that our main activity is uh most
importantly in the u.s the white house
the u.n
american administration and also uh a
lot of other organizations
uh we also work on the qatar on qatar
a lot and then the egyptians turkey the
turks uh
we work all around the world because we
understand this is the key
uh first of all not only that it's it's
uh
it's a barrier it's not a barrier uh the
fact that we
hold terrorist organizations accountable
specifically this is
when we in regard to gaza because gaza
is as i said the original bully that
holds
2 million civilians hostage
we have all the right the international
community has
all the rights uh to uh
combat this kind of terrorism and
this is not only uh and we are not
aiming in order to make
a terrorist organization to pay the
price
uh you don't need to
um to bring to a collective punishment
it's not something
to do with uh we never conditioned
medicine food uh sewage or anything like
that
uh that are humanitarian for uh
uh for uh the civilians in gaza
uh and contrary we found a lot of
solutions uh
using the international community um
that should for all we concern uh
transfor gaza into singapore
our offer is uh business
and our author is polit politics and
diplomacy
and what we are doing i think rather
successfully but
we are not there yet is uh unifying the
the entities the important entities
international community american
administration u.n eu
icp we do a lot of icc sorry we do a lot
of
a lot of work all around the world with
all the politicians
concerned and opinions are all different
opinions
of israel in order to bring to a uh
a point you know we have the deal of the
century that we're talking about
we have all sorts of opportunities all
the time considering the rehabilitation
of gaza
gaza bring a solution and you know when
both sides are climbing up a tree
about all the uh peace process or
the lack of peace process uh a key to
put take everyone down climb down the
tree
the tree the high tree that they climbed
on is uh
is actually pursuing this stuff and we
do it with great success
uh but we need also to support this is a
long a long long journey and a very hard
one
and we need all the power that we can
uh get in order to convince those
politicians
to go to pursue this way and
specifically
uh there was uh decision 2474 the
security council of the u.n that we
always complained that they are against
israel
against the jewish nation everyone
they decided with the very strong effort
that we did with professor irwin cutler
the person
with the great squiott he brought nathan
sharansky out of jail and nelson mandela
now he's working in venezuela he's the
human rights expert
and he's uh also an israeli
and we reached to a decision a
security u.n security council decision
that says no
permanent agreement in gaza would be
reached before uh prisoners will be
brought back home
for the specifically the boys and the
u.n
is now there a lot thanks to the support
of your community this is this has to be
said
you should know and i know this is a
long journey we're talking about
shaping our future the way to bring my
brother is not only
uh to bring him home specifically
but we there's a saying in in israeli
slang if we choose the long way the
hardest one
then the fruits will be brought
immediately and not
you want you understand the point but
this is the first thing and why the
why do does the the american
administration understand it very well
it was also the obama administration now
it's the
trump administration uh because
the international community understands
two things the one is combating
terrorism
it's all it's all around us israel was
always the
israel was always a pioneer at uh defend
uh
combating uh bombing attacks in buses
and attacking all over and teaching
setting an example for the whole wide
world
uh the only and and so we we find
support in this in this target and they
understand it very well
and the plans are written the pans are
written in israel their plans are
written in
the everywhere we go they're set
you got to know my mother and my father
and all the efforts of over 100 people
that go all around the world to
uh to pursue this um so
this is not only said as uh i don't know
there's something uh
something that is not solid on the
ground the plans are there
and uh the will is there the only will
that should be
sorted is the israeli will we we are in
times in dark times where we underst
when there's a lot of fear to do
anything in israel
there's a lot of we always calculate
risks
and not calculate opportunities we don't
we
we don't look beyond and fight for what
we love
and we demolish everything we love and
respect with both hands because we don't
uh fight it and if if we don't
uh do it ourselves and convince all the
people to act
uh this could be the second thing just i
didn't finish the second thing about
that the international community
understands the humanitarian
issue and everybody understands
according to all religions
all uh sets of values and doctrines that
moral doctrines that bringing
a soldier back home bringing the
the the fallen soldiers back home is
of the highest importance to ev every
set
and also to muslims
and especially the palestinians and we
got into contact with a lot of
palestinian families
and you would be surprised how they find
this an opportunity to get rid of the
of the dictatorship that holds them
hostage
and of course they don't adhere to a lot
of things that
israel that we stand for and we have a
lot of conflict with a lot of things
but in this thing the agreement is uh
from end to end
and i believe and i i would say
hiratson also that with great effort
because now is the money time where we
can really push
and uh reach the situation
where we're flipping the equation and
perhaps the quest to bring hadao home
in in his memory would be
a quest that uh saves lives in the
future
and uh and bring us into a
path where we our dignity our human
dignity come
is back our values come back and it will
help us
shape uh the future that we want for our
children
and we want for the next generations of
it is israel
and the way they and and their uh
passage the way
they communicate to the world so tell us
first of all thank you for your time
it's getting late in israel
and you speak so passionately and
beautifully and we're so grateful to you
um leave us with what your what your
charge is to us what what more can we be
doing who should we be talking to what
should we be saying how do we scream
from the rooftop
how do we do we need to in addition to
including your brother's name in
artfulot which we continue to do
what more can borrow hashem is many
listening and watching
tell us what to be doing because you
know transforming gaza is a beautiful
long-term plan and maybe short-term plan
but
it takes a it takes a long time um he
should be brought home even before it's
reformed even before we get rid of
terrorist leaders
even before the palestinians are set
free in gaza that that is a noble effort
and it will as you said yield fruit not
just to bring hadar's body home
but it can really advance what we care
about in the world
but what can happen more quickly more
immediately should people call their
elected officials
and put it on their radar put it on
their map make them demand
that hamas releases body give us uh in
closing
give us a charge of what you're asking
everybody to do
so the first thing that should be said
never give up this is a
long way long road i know that all a lot
many of the people who are listening
took part in
the the efforts to bring my brother home
never give up never give up persist
and seek the don't uh and seek seek the
ways in the past
so so there's there are the usual things
that can be done the first thing
is uh people who are with the
connections and have and can seek to
affect all the politicians and every
simple people can do that
everywhere in power if it's an
administration if it's local
if it's people with power politicians
people with power of money
or people with a lot of powers to affect
the reason i told you a lot of stuff
this the u.n there's american
administration there's the
um uh countries like uh turkey
egypt uh qatar a lot of uh
and the europe in america and israel
there's a lot of ways the most simple
thing is to ask any government of israel
even in israel
or and i know they come i live among you
know they come and they want the money
and they want a lot of stuff and they
want support and one power
ask one question where are our boys
why aren't they brought back home why
are you scared we know
real we know it is through reality this
is one
speak your representatives your
officials talk to them persuade them
don't don't uh accept no for an answer
even if they they disappoint you carry
on
we all in a great go from strength to
strength
and the second thing is also you know if
there are any
people from youth movements or people
are younger you are our key
you are our army for everything go to
the media
go follow our pages the one is bringing
our home
everyone says to people that are the
closest people for him
your daughters your sons your brothers
your mothers
shali they are not mine but i feel like
it's mine
uh so that's the name of our page you
can follow you can share
and you there's a lot to be done and
specifically
in this at this situation and in this
uh opportunity and uh piece of time that
we are
rare times that we are dealing with uh
people see it as hard times and we see
this as an opportunity a real
opportunity for change
and this is what happens international
community the third thing
uh is now in august we will start
a very very unifying and strong
and positive campaign in israel uh it
will be in the whole wild world and it
will involve all the
remember this involves i can't talk
about it about it a lot
it will it will involve communities
around the world
uh who will uh give a strong message
to the leaders in israel and to the
leaders in
uh the us specifically uh that now
is the time uh uh we we are not happy
with the way things are handled we want
our soldiers home
and uh we want uh bring us back the
value of unity bring us back the value
of shared fate
and i believe i hope and this rather
shame that we will talk afterwards
rabbi goldberg in happier moments that
we could look at this time this
month of august i hope this is recorded
at the time where the effort the shared
effort that we have done in the
near month will be the one to that
brought us the fruits and the fruits are
bringing our soldiers home uh bringing
our strength back
and our sense of pride of our nation and
the sense of pride
for our soldiers back saving lives in
the future
and by no means it won't be a way to
bring any punishment
to collective punishment people who are
innocent this is not the way
and this is not the case the case is uh
putting terrorists terrorists lose
civilians
uh win and
our soldiers will never be abandoned and
left behind
in the way that my soldier my brother my
dear brother hadan
was left behind in the sex six past
years because
may have no doubt my brother was left
behind because
our because we were tired and because of
fear
a conscious uh decision
by the leadership by our leadership
thought this is the solution
this is the way to uh to change our
uh our fate and now there are
people understand that this is not the
case we have sacrifice there's a
mashal there's a fable not a fable but a
word that
we use when you want to save the baby
and he's in the
bathtub so you throw the water with the
baby
okay to say that you wanted to solve a
minor problem
and by by solving it you you
destroyed the the the biggest pro the
biggest
thing that is dear to you and and uh the
true
aim that you are at unfortunately for
six years
six years consciously uh the decision
was to leave them
back behind there were endless
opportunities to bring
my brother home it in the easiest ways
and in way of victory but now we're
talking about today
and we're talking about how we are sure
of our of the
of the truth of our actions and
true to our and our sure and
believe and in our existence in israel
as and we truly believed in our uh
soldiers and the way that we convict
victor bring to a victory upon terrorism
and not lose it because
now i come back to the to the how i
began this
uh conversation if terrorists want
make us choose between two felonies uh
one is to pay
uh prices and terrorism and the second
is to
uh abandon our soldiers our civilians
our beloved ones
that we will we will seek we seek
victory and we will find it
uh we will choose life and life will
persist
and life uh and the life of our beloved
israel and our beloved uh nation
communities congregation will win
terrorism
and uh
uh and i'm working as the rabbi as rebel
said prayer are enough now their actions
and uh i i i act and go
and go after my brother i did it in the
operation protective edge i was
in the rescue effort to bring him home i
didn't know it
uh i was
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i was told to go out and that was where
my physical mission i was a combat
soldier
officer in operation protective edge i
was there to bring my
brother home out of the tunnel i didn't
accomplish that
i'm doing it uh from the past six years
and ani mit pale
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will bring my brother home uh
i hope immediately but uh up until next
time
so are you a tribute to your parents
your tribute to your brother your
tribute to our people
i want to thank you for your time and uh
we're going to go from tisha b'av to
shabbat nachamu
and we wish nahama to you and to your
family and the great nakama they can't
bring hadar
back to life but they can bring hadar
back to home
and to be able to allow you to have the
closure to be able to mourn him properly
and to be able to move on so we are with
you we'll continue to dive and we'll
continue to work we'll continue to make
those phone calls
thank you for giving us this time and
thank you for serving our people
in the idf and thank you for continuing
to serve until today
and we look forward to seeing you uh
please god soon up
so up the hill and then down in the beta
mcdash we'll meet there for a great
barbecue together with you
and with haddad and with all of ami
israel thank you so much for your time
thank you so much take care