hebrew → English transcript

When my son was injured on the steps of our house by gunfire from a terrorist on the hill across,

22 years ago.

He was seven years old; he was injured on our house steps,

even the rabbi saw him; he saw something in him,

and I happened to be in the Knesset,

Fuad was the Defense Minister,

I knew him.

Well, I went into his office, sobbing, distraught,

and I said to him, Fuad,

they're shooting at us every day, all day.

You can stop this in an instant.

You, the Defense Minister, can give the IDF an order to take control of that hill.

Fuad was very kind,

he brought me water; he tried to comfort me,

he did not give the order,

because, in his worldview, it would be wrong

to wreck the relationship with the Palestinian Authority

because of the child of Oratz Trok, or the children of Oratz Trok,

or all the children of the Jewish settlement in Hebron,

and that's fine by me.

Because that's how a state should be run.

We need to be empathetic toward one another,

and we, as public representatives,

must do what our public sent us to do,

and sends us to carry it out — that's my view.