Dr. Aryeh Bachrach, whose son Ohad was murdered by terrorists 20 years ago in Wadi Kelt, has sprung to the defense of Haggai Huberman, a veteran military affairs correspondent for Arutz Sheva who penned an op-ed in Hebrew that aroused a stormy public debate last week.
Huberman's article referred to the leftist demonstration in Tel Aviv last week in which one of the speakers was Michal Kedar, whose husband was killed in Operation Protective Edge.
Huberman opined that leftists like Kedar who supported the Disengagement have only themselves to blame for the resulting deaths in the military operations made necessary by the Hamas takeover of Gaza.
He also referred to a well-known proverb about a boy who murders his parents and then asks the court to have mercy on him because he is an orphan. He later said that he regretted his wording, which made it sound as if Kedar had somehow “killed” her husband, but inisited that he stands behind the ideas he expressed. Huberman said that when a widow's grief is used to achieve political gain in a pre-election rally, it is legitimate to criticize her.
Bachrach cited an article that was published in Yedioth Aharonoth soon after his son's murder, in which a leftist attorney claimed that Ohad was to blame for his own death because he was “a macho settler” who insisted on hiking through a wadi in the “occupied West Bank.”
There was no public storm of indignation after that article, Bachrach recalled, and the newspaper would not even let him publish a response: “So to the editorial board of Yedioth Aharonoth, which asked 'How can things like this be written?' about Haggai Huberman's article, the answer is – they can be written, and in your newspaper, too. But the question is, who is the writer and against whom were they written.”
"All those who supported the Disengagement brought upon us the wars, from Cast Lead up to Protective Edge, and everything in between,” he added.
Bachrach concluded "the public needs to be aware of the inability of the delusional Left to think and predict the future, before casting its vote in the ballot box. Beware! The judgment of Disengagement supporters is impaired, do not place our security in their hands. The conclusion: go vote, because every vote counts.”