The right to live, the duty to ask
Nurit Dabush calls for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the events of October 7, driven by a personal and national sense of responsibility to uncover the full truth about the massacre and ensure the disaster does not recur. She warns against turning the event into a political blame game instead of a thorough investigation.
In a poignant personal column, Nurit Dabush calls for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the events of October 7. She describes her personal experience on that Saturday in Ashkelon, where she sat in a safe room with her daughter and considered jumping from the sixth floor if terrorists reached their door. Since then, she writes, a sense of personal and national responsibility not to forget, not to cover up, and not to repress what happened has accompanied her every moment. Dabush warns against the danger that the event will turn into a political discourse of finger-pointing between politicians and security officials, instead of a deep and thorough investigation of the facts. She argues that the duty to know what really happened, and how, is a necessary condition to ensure it never happens again. Dabush expresses faith in the people of Israel, whom she describes as a people that rose from the ashes, and that there are leaders among them who can investigate without bias and present the truth.