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Speaker 0: There is a spirit abroad in Israel, which people have not seen before, a spirit among younger people. They will not be diverted from defeating the enemy. It is no longer enough simply to what was called mowing the lawn, to keep the enemy down on the basis that they're always going to be there and we're always going to fight them. No. Enough.
We will now fight to defeat the enemy because we know that only defeating the enemy is what we should be doing. And there's been a realization there's been a realization that this idea of mowing the lawn, this idea of not going too far, this idea of doing what the world expects us to do, that is galut mentality, that is diaspora mentality, that is trying to please and appease the world, but the world we now understand from what we're being living through and are still living through. The world cannot be appeased. It has to be fought. It has been described, and I think most wonderfully, as a move from Talmud to Tanakh, by which I mean this.
The Talmud, that collection of rabbinical ordinances which justifiably can be said to have kept Israel kept the Jewish people alive since their exile from the land of Israel, is very much a diaspora mentality. It is a mentality which looks inward, which says we are up against a world which hates us, we have to protect ourselves. The Tanakh is full of stories of the Jewish people of antiquity fighting, fighting real battles, killing real people in defense of their nation and their people and their faith, and that is what has to be done. And I see that what we are seeing now in this war that has been fought is the resurrection of the Tanakh Jew, the return of the heroic Davidic warrior, strength not weakness.