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The colonizers

Posted on May 12, 2024 | Comments Off on The colonizers

That’s what the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, protestors on American college campuses call the Israelis these days. Actually, Eretz Israel, Hebrew for the Land of Israel, was the 2,000+ years old birthplace of the Jewish people. Making the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians the actual colonizers, coming late to the party.

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Degenerate animals

Posted on December 30, 2023 | 2 comments

“To be clear, there is no animal species, no predator, anywhere near as cruel, as heartless, as vicious, as ignorant, as the Muslims who carried out the atrocities of October 7–and the much larger number of Muslims and Western liberals in the press, at Harvard, Penn, MIT, etc., who cheered those atrocities. No animal species has sunk that low.

“What accounts for this savagery? The sick culture that prevails among the so-called Palestinians, and that especially dominates Gaza. The Gazans are lost in hate and have been trained to do evil from childhood. It is that culture that must be destroyed, not the political organization of Hamas, which is a symptom not a cause.”

Via Powerline Blog

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The War of Seven Fronts

Posted on December 27, 2023 | Comments Off on The War of Seven Fronts

That’s how IDF chief of staff Halevi sees it, according to the Times of Israel.

Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samariah (the West Bank), Iraq, Yemen and Iran have all targeted Israel in recent days and the Israel Defense Forces has responded and acted on six of them so far.

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Israel’s 15 ceasefires

Posted on November 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Israel’s 15 ceasefires

Palestinians broke each one.

Via Instapundit

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Will Israel finish the job?

Posted on November 5, 2023 | 3 comments

Roger Kimball’s piece in American Greatness is headlined in the affirmative. But I’ve seen too many ceasefires on Israel’s side to be confident. Nevertheless, as Kimball puts it: “The main reason to be grateful for this horrific carnage [of October 7] follows from the revelation it afforded. In the first place, by acting with such savage and sanguinary abandon—deliberately targeting the young and helpless, the old and infirm, raping, mutilating, beheading—Hamas in effect signed its own death warrant.”

Via American Greatness

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The Yom Kippur War

Posted on September 17, 2023 | 2 comments

This Yom Kippur (on Sunday, Sept 24) is the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. When Israelis were interrupted in their synagogues and fasts by familiar sirens (not really heard since 1967) announcing Arab attacks: this time in the Sinai Desert on the south by the Egyptians and in the north on the Golan Heights by Syria.

The Israel Defense Force was taken by surprise and things went badly for the first four days, with territory lost and front line troops taking heavy casualties. U.S. airlifted shipments of ammunition and equipment on the fourth day enabled the IDF to go on a full-scale offensive. But Israel had mobilized two armored divisions of mainly M-48 and M-60 tanks in less than 24 hours.

The IDF gradually turned the Syrian advance into a rout to within 35 kilometers of their capital of Damascus. The Egyptians were likewise compelled to retreat close to their capital of Cairo. And then we got the Arab Oil Embargo which turned our economy upside down and lots of diplo back-and-forthing which I won’t bore you with.

My favorite story from the war is that of Zvika Greengold, a 21-year-old captain (or lieutenant depending on the source) who commanded a Centurion tank on the Golan, one of only eight soldiers of the war awarded the Medal of Valor, Israel’s Medal of Honor.  He fought off the advance of a Syrian tank brigade with his single Centurion, which he dubbed on the radio as Zivka Force, until help arrived.

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Rule 5: Paratrooper boots

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Posted on December 28, 2022 in Guns, Israel

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