Some behaviors are so bizarre that they require no commentary except by qualified psychiatrists. I shall therefore not comment on a speech Benjamin Netanyahu gave on September 1st, the first day of the Israeli school year, to a classroom of first-graders in Ashkelon. I shall simply translate and emphasize that he is speaking to six-year-old boys and girls. (Comments in brackets are mine. Translation ends at the 2:05 mark)
“… I want you to be not only excellent, but also Zionists [it rhymes in
Hebrew]. We have only one land and it is this land. We must defend it.
The first lesson in first grade was “Shalom [peace] first grade”, with
emphasis on the “peace”. We educate our children for peace. A few
kilometers from here, Hamas is teaching its children the opposite of
peace and occasionally it tries to shoot at us, at you, and my policy is
clear: zero restraint, zero containment, zero tolerance for terrorism.
We respond to every launch into our territory, whether by overt or by
covert operations, and we also foil terrorism, as we did yesterday in
Jenin, and I wish a full recovery to the IDF soldier who was wounded. We
want peace, but first we shall protect our land, we shall protect our
children, we shall protect you. This is our first obligation—the
security of you children. I want you to know it; it’s important.”
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