The kibbutz has been a cherished centerpiece of Israeli life for 75 years. Many kibbutzniks believe Benjamin Netanyahu failed us all and he has to go.
. Two of them draw special attention. In the first, the viewer is blinded by a striking orange: Shiri Bibas and her two ginger sons, wrapped in a blanket, are videoed while in the process of being kidnapped into. The second shows an elderly woman, also wrapped in a blanket, wary, surrounded by a group of euphoric young Palestinians driving a golf cart of the sort usually utilized by old kibbutzniks.
A few days after the attack, I read a Facebook post by Bar Heffetz, the agricultural manager of the groves at Kibbutz Nirim where they grow avocados and lychees, among other things. It was addressed to Benjamin Netanyahu. To start with, the Zionist movement was diverse in activity and ideology. It encompassed socialists, liberals, rich philanthropists and farmers. Of these, the founders of the kibbutzim—as exemplified in the 11 points operation—were the ones to physically draw on the British Mandate of Palestine’s ground the outline of the future northern, eastern and southern borders of Israel. The kibbutzim are, in fact, the edges of Israel’s map.
“Explain how you abandoned them for a decade because you preferred to consolidate the voter base in Judea and Samaria at their expense,” wrote Heffetz. “That you preferred to fund a terrorist organization; and that anytime that there was a real international willingness to reach an agreement, you rejected it because you preferred to drive a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank. Promise that you’ll do everything, everything in your power, to bring back their kidnapped relatives alive.
“In such a case, the local emergency squad is called to respond immediately and is supposed to protect the kibbutz for 20 minutes, until the army gets there. Under no circumstances is it supposed to hold for more than 20 minutes. We were sure that the army was coming, but sometime after 8 o’clock, we received a notice from the local security team that they had no idea what was going on. And then we realized: something very, very unusual was happening.
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