We Can Always Choose Unity

The bravest woman in Israel is a mother of one of the hostages, and all she wants to talk about is unity. She is saying in this interview (in Hebrew) that she has inner peace because she has total faith in our "top professionals" (intelligence units and top commanders) to do their best to get the hostages back. She's not a supporter of the current government but is stressing that we all must unite around this effort. When asked how she can smile at a time like this, she explains that she's a healer and nurse for terminally ill patients and says everyone has a different way of dealing with things. Everyone in the studio is in total shock of her positive attitude. She doesn't look like a person going through hell - just the opposite. She is an inspiration to all of us.

From the article >>

"The mother addressed the criticism that has been hurled at the Prime Minister and other ministers in recent days and made it clear that this is not the time for division: "It's hard for me to hear that our country is being attacked - I need a strong country now. To know that it is protecting me and my child and all the children who are in Gaza."

She also said: "We don't have another country, this is something I'm only understanding now. This is the safest place - 100%" now14.co.il

Her name is Iris Chaim .

My Commentary

Our purpose in general and not only for war-time is to be a united country. It's not difficult to understand mentally, but emotionally it's really difficult to implement. We're not like other nations who are connected to a certain blood line - our only point of connection is around the ideology of loving your neighbor as yourself, which we started. And this is something we will have to finish.

The issue of togetherness is not a moral thing for us to have a beautiful life. It's a basic necessity for peace and the existence of a society -- any society. And especially us -- the people of Israel.

The idea is to gather everyone together in one circle, and together they undergo a process where they learn to overcome things together. The issue of togetherness is not a moral thing for us to have a beautiful life. It's a basic necessity for peace and the existence of a society -- any society. And especially us -- the people of Israel.

Unity is a very serious matter. And even though we see clear signs of how separation endangers our existence, and how we're actually saved by the spirit of unity. And as much as we'd like to agree to work toward unity as a supreme social value - it doesn't work on us.

We cannot yet measure the results of unity, because we do not yet have a measuring tool. But at the moment we're trying to be united in the face of everything that is happening. The volunteering and the general commitment we have built now, provide us with examples of how we can help each other, and how to accept the required changes.

When pressures are applied to us, they never come in a way that a person can understand, because they change the person according to their environment, and also in wider circles. On an individual basis, us humans don't understand why we need to change, why the conditions don't work according to man's intellect and emotion. And here's where the efforts of unity come to fill those mental and emotional gaps, more than we can as individuals.

The dependence of a society, of a group that consists of the sum of all its parts is something we will have to deal with. And we won't be able to ignore it for long. We see with our senses how the people of Israel and the State of Israel are facing difficulties, which are only increasing year by year. In the short term, we must make a joint effort to pray for all the security forces who are giving up their safety and their lives, and for the safety of the hostages. In the long run, we also owe it to ourselves, to each and every one of us, and to everyone in the country.