If what you do is right, it will also intelligent
By Yossi Dayan
Reprinted from Arutz 7 - Translated from Hebrew by Meir Ben-Hayoun
Yossi Dayan, then a reservist, was sentenced to 45 days imprisonment for refusing to execute the order to destroy the houses of Yamit in the Sinai evacuation in 1982. Then he was seriously wounded by a mine during the First Lebanon War. His son Hananel, military award for excellence, became famous for refusing to shake hands with the Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, commander of the expulsion of Gush Katif. It was at the ceremony of Yom Ha'atzmaut in May 2006 at the residence of the President of the State of Israel. Hananel Dayan had been content to present the military rigor hello to the Chief of Staff.
The Israeli reaction to the attitude of Turkey was also fair and intelligent. The national honor is a key element in our relations with the Muslim Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkish Prime Minister).
While it is difficult discuss with people who do not think like us. But it is how much more difficult to discuss with people who do not think at all. Among these, the most hopeless are those who repeat hollow slogans heard at the flea market they do not have it all wrong.
"Do not be always right-Be smart, be smart" is the slogan that I hate most in a controversy. What should I do to stop being right? Invent an argument against the truth, values or logic? Or turning your back on the factual reality? Is that such conduct will make me really someone smarter? So if you consider that someone away from what is right, it means he is closer to that understanding? Or perhaps is it the opposite?!
assumption of those who agitate for us this disgusting slogan that nobody denies, is that it is impossible to combine these two characteristics, namely, that a man can be right and that it is intelligent.
But what? Not only is there no contradiction, but one of these two characteristics do not exist without the other, so that the person who is right is one that is intelligent! And de facto, if not in truth, there's no way out great evil either.
Take for example the case of blaming the Turkish ambassador to Israel when the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has convened and made to sit lower than him. Lieberman had assigned his deputy to sharply rebuke the official representative of a country whose Prime Minister raves against Israel at any time. The Israeli response was fair and was also smart. The national honor is an essential element in our relations with the Muslim Recep Tayyip Erdogan .
Turks understand this very well, and for proof, The tone is quickly assembled and demanded an apology from Israel.
Then experts appointed by themselves began to make remarks and make recommendations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. They told him: "Do not be too much in the real fact that Turks deserve this reaction. Be smart and throw them a bone so they forgo to repatriate their ambassador in Ankara who feels offended."
Netanyahu has instructed to sell to the Turkish demand, by apologizing to the Turks. Consecutively, the State of Israel has been passed to an entity that is neither in the real and insightful nor well. The lack of foresight in honoring this requirement will cost us dear, not only in our bilateral relations with Turkey. It is impossible to be intelligent at the expense of what is right.
now say: be in the real - be smart!
By Yossi Dayan
Reprinted from Arutz 7 - Translated from Hebrew by Meir Ben-Hayoun
Yossi Dayan, then a reservist, was sentenced to 45 days imprisonment for refusing to execute the order to destroy the houses of Yamit in the Sinai evacuation in 1982. Then he was seriously wounded by a mine during the First Lebanon War. His son Hananel, military award for excellence, became famous for refusing to shake hands with the Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, commander of the expulsion of Gush Katif. It was at the ceremony of Yom Ha'atzmaut in May 2006 at the residence of the President of the State of Israel. Hananel Dayan had been content to present the military rigor hello to the Chief of Staff.
The Israeli reaction to the attitude of Turkey was also fair and intelligent. The national honor is a key element in our relations with the Muslim Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkish Prime Minister).
While it is difficult discuss with people who do not think like us. But it is how much more difficult to discuss with people who do not think at all. Among these, the most hopeless are those who repeat hollow slogans heard at the flea market they do not have it all wrong.
"Do not be always right-Be smart, be smart" is the slogan that I hate most in a controversy. What should I do to stop being right? Invent an argument against the truth, values or logic? Or turning your back on the factual reality? Is that such conduct will make me really someone smarter? So if you consider that someone away from what is right, it means he is closer to that understanding? Or perhaps is it the opposite?!
assumption of those who agitate for us this disgusting slogan that nobody denies, is that it is impossible to combine these two characteristics, namely, that a man can be right and that it is intelligent.
But what? Not only is there no contradiction, but one of these two characteristics do not exist without the other, so that the person who is right is one that is intelligent! And de facto, if not in truth, there's no way out great evil either.
Take for example the case of blaming the Turkish ambassador to Israel when the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has convened and made to sit lower than him. Lieberman had assigned his deputy to sharply rebuke the official representative of a country whose Prime Minister raves against Israel at any time. The Israeli response was fair and was also smart. The national honor is an essential element in our relations with the Muslim Recep Tayyip Erdogan .
Turks understand this very well, and for proof, The tone is quickly assembled and demanded an apology from Israel.
Then experts appointed by themselves began to make remarks and make recommendations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. They told him: "Do not be too much in the real fact that Turks deserve this reaction. Be smart and throw them a bone so they forgo to repatriate their ambassador in Ankara who feels offended."
Netanyahu has instructed to sell to the Turkish demand, by apologizing to the Turks. Consecutively, the State of Israel has been passed to an entity that is neither in the real and insightful nor well. The lack of foresight in honoring this requirement will cost us dear, not only in our bilateral relations with Turkey. It is impossible to be intelligent at the expense of what is right.
now say: be in the real - be smart!
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