There are many who believe Israel satan's whelp.
There are many who believe Israel utterly dependent on the USA and a follower.
There are many who believe the USA has no national security interest in Israel's future.
But in this place and time, as the vast preponderance of the americans wordlessly recognize, we are inextricably linked, and therefore in this war we now depend on Israel to be Israel.
We depend on them to be those who fearlessly planned the scourge of the Egyptian and Syrian air forcesin 1967 and risked the national survival to do so, and to win. We depend on Israel to be those who finding themselves outgunned on Yom Kippur 1973, thought and then fought their way to so nearly a complete an annihilation of the Egytpian Third army, and so unhindered a march on Damascus, that only american threats to cut them off completely stopped them from destroying the last armed forces in the middle east of national opposition to their existance as a state and people. We depend on them to be the civilian army that cored the five professional armies which invaded them at the moment of their birth. We depend on them to be those who, unafraid of failure, planned to save hundreds of their own, 2500 miles from home with no support and little time, and then DID so
But Ehud Olmert and the Israeli men governing and elected, and the military men who have not quit in righteous indignation have fulfilled Hassan Abassi's fatal pronouncement...
As Israel nears the end of four weeks of fighting along the Lebanese border and seven weeks of fighting in Gaza, Israeli decision-makers appear guided by three main principles:
--avoidance of diplomatic sanctions;
--avoidance of military casualties;
-- and avoidance of domestic political blame for the countless and obvious mistakes in judgment being made at the upper levels of government and the army.
The Israeli govt has so far placed the political benefit of (lack of) IDF casualties above the lives of the people they are sworn to protect.
It is not the duty of the civilians to die for the army, it is the army's service and their duty and devotion to freedom and their families that make it possible for them to KILL THE ENEMY, and die doing so if needs be - which protects the populace.
Olmert and the Israeli govt have managed to invert the IDF's reason for existing
I condemn them.
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3 comments:
Good post, Epa.
We have failed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now in Lebanon.
The war is going very, very poorly.
Given the logic of Islam, the more we surrender, the harder and more frequently they will hit us.
The next few months ought to be interesting.
All the more reason for an internet campaign adding as many as possible to the " I Oppose You", "We are AGAINST you" idea. Don't know just a thought I've been having.
Epa, did you think that the choice of Olmert in the election was bad at the time? I know less of the politics within Israel than you, but it seemed a poor move to me. I was squarely for Bibi, but as I say I don't know as much, to be honest.
Totally off topic, but that Dayan pic in the post for me has the same reaction that those thong shots have for you guys. Nice one. Sorry to wax sexual on you there.
I had no idea who or what Olmert is.
BILL CLINTON in the time of FDR, for Israel
Olmert will fight if it is politically expedient, not if it is right or wrong, and he has surrounded himself with like thinkers. Something is just MISSING from these kind of people.
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