While Yesh Gvul, Women in Black and others crazy Leftists were protesting our soldiers fighting back I had some interesting discussions in shul this Shabbos.

I spoke with a number of friends and they were telling me that they spent the day calling up their reserve units to get them up into the fight. One of my friends was actually from the platoon that got attacked, and he had finished his reserve duty just a few days earlier.

I honestly have no desire to be left-wing cannon fodder, so I asked them why they are willing to volunteer for the extra duty.

The answers surprised me.

They spoke of responsibility to the country, of protecting the nation, and of killing Arab terrorists – despite how the Left directly propelled us into this situation, while betraying us and hurting us personally. They didn’t want to leave the defense of the country (while we are defending it for a change) in the hands of the ‘Yifeh Nefesh’.

I can understand all those sentiments, and have some thinking to do before I make any phone calls - meanwhile I'm busy protecting my Yishuv, my neighbors may be thinking of taking their celebrations to the next level.