Tzvi Fishman
Tzvi Fishman was awarded the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Before making Aliyah to Israel in 1984, he was a successful Hollywood screenwriter. He has co-authored 4 books with Rabbi David Samson, based on the teachings of Rabbis A. Y. Kook and T. Y. Kook. His other books include: "The Kuzari For Young Readers" and "Tuvia in the Promised Land". His books are available on Amazon. Recently, he directed the movie, "Stories of Rebbe Nachman."Mr. Prime Minister, no, no, no. We don’t want to go back to what was. We want to go forward. A great many people believe that the Corona pandemic has been sent from God to wake us up, and to wake up the rest of the world with us, to the need for world change.
Please, Mr. Prime Minister, as the leader of the Jewish People, don’t take our country out of the mud of Corona by going backward to “normal.” Drive the wagon forward.
This is a wonderful country, a wonderful place for a Jew to live, a miraculous rebirth of Jewish independence - but there is much that we can change for the better now, much we should not go back to. Now is the time.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which allows enemies to fire hundreds of missiles and incendiary balloons at its Jewish citizens and then hardly responds.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which hands away millions of shekels each month to the Palestinian Authority to be distributed to terrorists.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which promotes Tel Aviv as a homosexual haven and encourages teachers to teach children that a home with two fathers is perfectly normal.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which subsidizes TV and radio channels which brainwash the public with pluralistic ideas and anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist messages from morning till night.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State with a Department of Culture which gives a fortune of money to post-Zionists to make anti-Israel movies.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which allows the Supreme Court to place the freedom of the individual to do whatever he wants over public health and welfare.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which can indict a Prime Minister for smoking cigars and drinking champagne.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which encourages the army to put women in combat roles alongside of men.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which doesn’t provide affordable housing for young people.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which allows public transportation on Shabbat.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which doesn’t manage to bring home its fallen soldiers.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which allows Jonathan Pollard to remain imprisoned in America.
We don’t want to go back to a Jewish State which allows Arabs to decide who becomes Prime Minister and what laws are passed in the Knesset.
We don’t want to return to what was – we want to go forward. A great many of us, Mr. Prime Minister, believe that Hashem hasn’t created the Corona havoc throughout the world just to have humanity return to business as usual. Don’t take us back to the past. Take us forward to a more moral, Jewish, and hope-filled future.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State with a proud Jewish Identity. We want to go forward to a true Jewish State which champions Zionism and places Israeli sovereignty over all of its God-given borders.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State which upholds the Torah and where the word of Hashem goes forth to the world from the rebuilt Temple on the Temple Mount.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State with allows its army to deal a final blow to sworn enemies.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State which makes the ingathering of the exiles a national priority.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State with doesn’t allow Internet immorality to enter Jewish homes and smartphones.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State which champions Jewish values and heritage in our schools.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State which flaunts true Jewish heritage, and which ends the invasion of foreign cultures and creeds.
We want to go forward to a true Jewish State whose leaders call out to the God of Israel for aid in times of trouble without the media trying to destroy them for it, with a leader who champions families with mothers and fathers, who looks to the Psalms of King David for guidance, and who acknowledges that all Corona vaccines and medicines are a gift of Hashem, and not merely the ingenuity of Israeli start-ups and the genius of man.
We don’t want to go back to what was, Mr. Prime Minister. We want to go forward to our mission as the Holy Nation, and as a beacon of Divine morality and justice to the world. Onward! Kadima!