The interview is in Hebrew for women only:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbqIHB9f-AU
This interview follows in the spirit of the interview with Efrat Mor, mother of Eitan Avraham, as described here:
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And of course, the Leibman family, whose captive son's name is Elyakim Shlomo ben Avishag.
It's important to emphasize that while I'm focusing on the mothers' interviews, please know their entire families take the stance presented in these posts.
In other words, the fathers, siblings, and their supporters are equally heroic.
All these families are religious and members of the Hope Forum (Forum HaTikvah), a forum for families of hostages who support each other with emunah, bitachon, and the rock-solid position of ahavat Yisrael — meaning, they unilaterally oppose releasing Jew-murderers in exchange for the release of the treasured sons of these families.
Unfortunately, these heroic Hope Forum families face the censure of other families of hostages (which the Hope Forum understand and judge favorably). Furthermore, the Hope Forum families undergo unforgivable slander in Leftist media, such as in the media rag referred to on this blog as Am Ha'Aretz.
And all because the Hope Forum families refuse to risk the lives of other Jews by releasing bloodthirsty savages who live to murder Jews.
The worst terrorists were freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit.
Sinwar was one of those terrorists.
BTW, in addition to all the Jewish blood on his hands, he happily murdered fellow Muslim-Arabs — including those called "Palestinians."
In fact, Mosab Hassan Yousef ("The Green Prince" and "Son of Hamas") recently revealed how, while in prison, Sinwar decapitated the head of a fellow Muslim-Arab into a sink.
(Decapitating fellow prisoners wasn't the only privilege the Israeli prison system allowed Sinwar and his fellows. You can read here to discover how liberally the Israeli prisons treated these bloodthirsty monsters: former-prison-director-betty-lahat-shatters-the-lies-fed-to-us-regarding-terrorists-prison-conditions-for-terrorists-humanitarian-assistance-and-the-complicity-of-the-media-and-officials-in-the-intensification-of-terror-against-jews.html)
And these same freed bloodthirsty savages orchestrated and participated in the mass slaughter that occurred near the border with Gaza.
If only Shalit's father and the secular Israel authorities had cared about Am Yisrael as much as the Mors, Leibmans, Ohrs, and others of the Hope Forum care about Am Yisrael!
So many lives and a tremendous amount of suffering could have been spared.
"We Believe We are Part of Am Yisrael, Part of the Whole. And the Struggle within This Reality is Not Individual."
The Hope Forum is a union of families of hostages for whom it is important to bring another voice to the arena...a voice that stands on two fundamentals.
One is that we relate to reality from the outlook of emunah, from within the knowledge that everything that happens is hashgacha pratit — individual Divine supervision. It's the Creator of the World Who is orchestrating everything.
The story here? It's His story.
Whether it's the general picture of Am Yisrael and everything that's happening to the country and to all the Jews, or whether it's the individual picture of every one of us as a yearning and hurting family struggling with this powerful challenge — just know that we come from a place of emunah.
That's the first fundamental of the Hope Forum.
And the second fundamental is that we as the families of hostages — we are a part of society as a whole.
It's not that we are coming to solve my individual problem and nothing else matters — as if, at all costs — let the whole world die, let I-don't-know-what die — I just want my son and I don't care about anything else.
We believe that we are part of Am Yisrael, part of the whole. And the struggle within this reality is not individual.
The suffering is not just my individual suffering...but it's an encompassing story of Am Yisrael.
And the solution needs to come integrated.
Just as the difficulty arrived integrated, so the way to solve it needs to come with an outlook that takes into account these two views.
And these two views go together. They don't contradict each other.
What's good for the whole is good for the individual and vice-versa.
There's no contradiction. We don't need to endanger millions of Jews to save dozens of Jews.
She concludes the philosophy of her emunah-based companions with:
If we truly go from within emunah — and that's the first fundamental of the Hope Forum — and we'll do our role on a individual level and on a societal level in the form of emunah, then it's certain these things will go together.
And the good will appear on both the individual level and the societal level.
Highlighting the Heroic Ahavat Yisrael of These Special Families
May Hashem protect, save, and release all the captive, missing, and imprisoned of Am Yisrael and especially the sons of the above families:
- Avinatan ben Ditza Tirtza (Ohr)
- Elyakim Shlomo ben Avishag (Leibman)
- Eitan Avraham ben Efrat (Mor)
- please-meet-the-mors-the-family-of-gaza-hostage-eitan-avraham-mor-and-one-of-the-only-families-willing-to-stand-strong-against-the-manipulations-of-hamas-the-erev-rav.html
- the-truth-behind-the-5-year-shalit-phase-release-exchange-plus-who-really-called-the-shots-during-that-time-you-wont-believe-who-to-what-extent.html
- the-best-way-to-pray-for-captives-hostages-and-missing-people-according-to-jewish-tradition.html