Let's be honest. The courageous youth in Amona erased the shame of Gush Katif. They restored honor to the Jews and as a result, they also restored their elementary right to exist. The entire concept of brotherhood and love with which our youth was force-fed by Religious Zionism was exposed this summer as a cruel lie. We taught our children to embrace serpents.



When thousands are driven from their homes and thrown away like a worn-out rag and the entire response is chapters of Psalms and sermons by weeping rabbis in the synagogues of Gush Katif, the human face of the victims is wiped out. As I write these lines, I almost feel the need to add "justifiably". Of course, it is not justifiable that Israel forgot the homeless of Gush Katif. But what we must understand is that Israel relates to them as a public that has lost its honor.



In my estimation, many, many people in the settlements and in all parts of Israel can thank the courageous youth of Amona for the ground on which they will continue to live -- "to live and not to die". They have returned a human face to the Orange public and they have begun to restore the balance of intimidation to the settlements. Furthermore, they have given the State of Israel the chance to survive the all-out collapse to which an unelected scoundrel is leading us all -- on their backs.



But even if I am wrong, and the destruction continues full steam ahead, what happened in Amona is a defining event. It is now clear that besides the Christian love even for that which is evil, we have managed to instill in our youth a few true values: true love and responsibility for the nation of Israel; uncompromising dedication to the Torah and Land of Israel; modesty, sincerity, courage, perseverance and hope. In Gush Katif and in northern Samaria, our youth learned that the ideology of the rabbis of the "love that triumphs" does not fit in with reality. They may not yet know how to verbalize the healthy ideology, but as in every historical watershed event, the exact written ideology is formulated on the heels of the events; it does not create it.



According to the IDF Chief of Staff, the Orange youth makes up approximately half the infantry forces in the standing army. In other words, this youth is the cannon fodder upon which the upside-down Oslo pyramid rests. Since the Left created the Palestinian nation and armed them with Israeli weapons, it is the Orange youth that is paying the price. The percentage of Orange graves in the military cemeteries is far higher than their percentage in the general population. The Oslo-ites created the monster and simultaneously forced upon the IDF Christian values of war that favor the lives of the enemy over the lives of our sons. The Orange cannon fodder makes it possible for the Left to implement the process of destruction. The Left gorges the monster on our land, our money and our homes, and then hides from it behind the blood of our soldiers. All the while, they blame us for the entire tragedy and, in the end, use our sons to drive their own parents out of their homes.



Will the courageous youth of Amona, their parents and teachers understand that to continue the battle we must break the vicious cycle? Will they understand that breaking our blind dedication to the State must inevitably lead to playing our strongest card -- the fact that this country exists on our backs?



Will the brave youth of Amona understand that the true danger to the existence of the State is inside? Will they understand that if they want to achieve leadership and save Israel from the approaching horrors, then they must let Israel try to rely for a year or two not on them, but on the draft dodgers of the Left?