The young warriors of the IDF, who fight the foes of the remnant of Israel.
With a great new song and video about them in Hebrew and English via Monkey In The Middle.
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Posted in Israel, The War, Troops
Tagged conscript army, IDF, Israel, Israel Defense Forces
From a Syrian admirer, no less. (Don’t miss the audio at the link.) Have to admit, I also think Tzipi is hot. Remind me to do a Rule 5 on her.
“That’s the question my father often asks me on our way home from the airport in Texas. ‘So what do people think about what’s going on…..about Prime Minister Netanyahu…..about the revolution in Egypt?'”
Humor with bite from Benji Lovitt in Jerusalem.
My friend, Snoopy-the-Goon, for one, says many Israelis have given up on the idea of peace ever happening. Even though his own backyard bomb shelter is full of junk and its door rusted open, the hinges unyielding to WD-40.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Scribbles, Texana, The War, Troops
Tagged Benji Lovitt, Israel, Jerusalem bombing, terrorism, Texas
Everything this guy touches, or endorses, turns to you-know-what. For instance? The Libyan rebels.
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Tagged Obamalot, The Obama Curse
Leaving tomorrow morning from Ben Gurion Airport after an interesting, if exhausting, ten days of traveling all over in Israel. Today we did the Armored Corps memorial in Latrun, on the road to Jerusalem, one of the world’s largest displays of main battle tanks and other armored vehicles—as well as the names (and digital pictures) of the thousands of young tankers killed in Israel’s forced wars.
Then we went to the memorial for my host’s branch of the IDF, the Combat Engineers. It’s conveniently placed on the road they cut to Jerusalem (to bypass a Jordanian blockade of the main road) in the 1948 War of Independence. Their list of dead is much shorter, because contrary to civilian opinion it’s a lot safer to be in the open than cooped up inside a tank. If you’re interested in where else I’ve been, from Ben-Gurion’s desert home the afternoon of the day I arrived to yesterday’s passage of the rabbit warren streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, go here.
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Tagged IDF, IDF Combat Engineers, Israel, Israel Armored Corps
Memorial service scheduled at 7 tonight at Congregation Agudas Achim at the J, for the murdered Fogel family of Itamar, an Orthodox Jewish settlement in the West Bank: Udi, 36, top right; Ruth, 35, top left; L-R bottom, Elad, 4, Yudi, 11, and Hadas, three months.
They were massacred in their home at night while they were sleeping. They were stabbed to death, or had their throats cut, except the infant girl, who was decapitated.
Most Western media have ignored the killings or marginalized them with brief yes-but articles. Ever shilling for the Palestinians, no matter what they do. Anti-Semitism is on the rise? You best believe it.
That’s one reason the J has a guarded gate, staffed by armed off-duty cops.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
