Death Cell

It has occurred to me that not once during the two days that I have been in the death cell, I thought about the fate that awaits me. Do you think that I have lost all feeling, that I do not realize what is ahead of me? But my calm is a result of psychological preparation throughout the years, of readiness to lay down my life for the homeland expressed in our children’s songs and the realities of life. Yes! I realize what awaits me, but I am certain that my death will bring this a step closer to success. It matters not! With our blood, our deaths and our sacrifices we will erect a free state for our people who will know how to live and will have something to live for.



	HOME OTHERS Michael Ashbel Raise Up the Barricades by M. Ashbel Commutation by M. Ashbel Biography E-mail: info@saveisrael.com Contact Information: Save Israel P.O. Box 1901 Bensalem, PA 19020			Death Cell by M. Ashbel It has occurred to me that not once during the two days that I have been in the death cell, I thought about the fate that awaits me. Do you think that I have lost all feeling, that I do not realize what is ahead of me? But my calm is a result of psychological preparation throughout the years, of readiness to lay down my life for the homeland expressed in our children’s songs and the realities of life. Yes! I realize what awaits me, but I am certain that my death will bring this a step closer to success. It matters not! With our blood, our deaths and our sacrifices we will erect a free state for our people who will know how to live and will have something to live for. Only by blood can a country be redeemed, Only a country redeemed by blood Is sanctified for its people with the sanctity of blood. [From a poem by Uri Zvi Greenberg] From a personal letter to a friend written by Michael Ashbel from his death cell in Acre prison.