In a brief opinion piece, Hadar Miller argues that Israel’s fallen soldiers should not be turned into a political weapon. She says the public’s grief is deep every time the names and faces of those who died for the country are published, but that pain becomes worse when those names are used immediately for arguments, accusations, and mutual attacks.
Miller writes that the dead did not fall for any party or sector, but “for us, together.” She says that if Israelis want to be worthy of them, they must draw a red line around this “holy” subject and keep their memory clean and above controversy.
The column ends with a plea to preserve the fallen’s remembrance without politicizing it, arguing that both the dead and the living deserve that respect.
