One of the most significant values within Torah is hakeret hatov, the recognition of a good, a benefit, that you have received from another. This important character trait of acknowledging and properly responding to how another has benefited applies even if the benefit was unintentional and cost the other nothing -- how much more so when your benefit has been at the expense of this other.
We benefit from Eretz Yisrael. Sadly, this benefit has been at the expense including the many who gave their lives. This has nothing to do with politics, with religious perspectives on the land -- Yom HaZikaron is a day of hakeret hatov.
Rabbi Ben Hecht
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