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Message to Hamas

Posted on July 25, 2014 | Comments Off on Message to Hamas

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A Golani Infantry Brigade poster. The green olive tree is their logo and the Golan Heights is their usual stomping ground.

Translation from the Hebrew: “To Hamas terrorists. There is no light in the end of the tunnel. There is Golani.”

Not that it will be easy.

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Our shameful president, the fundraiser-in-chief

Posted on July 23, 2014 | 2 comments

It’s disgusting, watching Wormtongue toss off a few platitudes in Israel’s direction, then go off to fundraise for his retirement. (He says it’s for the Democrat party, but he’s a notorious liar.) Then he threatens Israel’s economy by canceling airline flights.

The Israelis, now hosting Lurch, Wormtongue’s idiot secretary of state and his cease-fire blather, are more than irritated. Especially with so many young soldiers fighting and dying for their country.

“It’s a sad day, too, when the best that the administration can manage is to tell us we have ‘the right to self-defense,’ rather than leading a global diplomatic offensive that champions Israel’s obligation to protect itself, and that musters any and every means to help its sole dependable Middle Eastern ally in that mission.”

I can’t imagine Barack Hussein doing anything like that for any country but a Muslim one. He lies to everyone else, including us. That’s part of the reason many of us (at least the 67 percent by one poll who support Israel) are deeply ashamed of him. Our first black president is a disaster.

UPDATE:  “…the U.S. has proved itself a faithless ally – or, at best, a worthless one, easily spooked and unprepared to back Israel up in enforcing the rule of law against lawless terrorism.”

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IDF Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, R.I.P.

Posted on July 20, 2014 | Comments Off on IDF Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, R.I.P.

Sergeant Carmeli, a native of South Padre Island, on the Gulf Coast in South Texas, was one of two Israeli Americans killed fighting in Gaza on Sunday.

Nissim, 21, who had moved to Israel from Texas in 2010, was an infantryman in the elite Golani Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces.

UPDATE: He “was an example of a new and increasingly common breed of lone soldier — a native Hebrew speaker with Israeli parents who chose to move abroad in pursuit of business opportunities, but instilled a strong sense of Israeli identity in their children, so strong that they choose to return to Israel and serve in the IDF rather than attend university overseas.”

MORE:  Astounding estimates of 12,000 to 20,000 people attended his funeral services in Haifa. Reflecting the love Israelis have for their young defenders.

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For & against a ground invasion

Posted on July 17, 2014 | 6 comments

In favor:

“…the lack of a ground invasion empowers our enemies, diminishes our sovereignty, and will, in the long run, cost Israel more money, terrorist attacks and blood.”

Opposed:

“A tank has no advantages in urban areas as it has limited maneuverability, cannot aim at upper floors and is a slow-moving, easily hit target…Soldiers…are sitting ducks for snipers. Hamas has laid mines, built tunnels underneath the houses, fortified sniper positions in strategically placed buildings.”

Gaza is a rat’s nest. IDF casualties could be high. But bombs are slow and, eventually, will have to be replaced by one of the campaign’s chief critics. Which may not be willing to cooperate.

Which move would you favor?

Via Arutz Sheva

UPDATE:  The die is cast, the ground invasion has begun. After Hamas broke the so-called truce.

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Iraq: another wasted campaign

Posted on June 20, 2014 | 2 comments

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We sure know how to lose ’em, eh?

Via Dr. Boli.

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Obamalot golfs, Iraq burns

Posted on June 15, 2014 | 4 comments

But, hey, Joey Hairplugs is on the case. And if the second banana can’t solve the bungling, the Obamalots are already blaming Bush. The Iraqi “army,” meanwhile, is throwing down their American arms and beating feet in the face of 3,000 guys in pickup trucks.

There are a few things the Dems still could do, but…

“After more than five years, we’ve come to know we should expect no such leadership or strategic ambition from this President. Meantime, somebody needs to start thinking about evacuating U.S. personnel from our Embassy in Baghdad. Maybe the helicopter is already on the roof.”

There better be more than one: “If the embassy is evacuated, it will leave what is perhaps one of the most lavish and expensive diplomatic facilit[ies] in history in the hands of al-Qaeda.”

While our adolescent cretin of a president golfs the rest of us should go celebrate the D-Day anniversary again. It was, after all, the last war we won—almost 60 years ago. And, wouldn’t you know it, we’ve still got troops in Germany. The Pentagon finds the living much better there, no doubt.

UPDATE:  As always when things don’t go his way, Wormtongue and his cronies blame Bush. But, when it comes to the fall of Iraq, the Worm owns it.

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Nimrod Newton Nash

Posted on June 8, 2014 | Comments Off on Nimrod Newton Nash

Newton Nash

Newt Nash was a rifleman in the Thirteenth Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment whose letters home to his wife Mollie go a long way to illuminating the Civil War from the Confederate viewpoint. Most of them are in my latest nonfiction book a history of the regiment in paper and digital at Amazon.

Copies of the letters, transcribed by Newt’s descendants, were given to me by Weldon Nash of Dallas, an old Aggie who faithfully reads from some of them every year on July 2, the Battle of Gettysburg’s famous second day, the day Newt was killed in the regiment’s charge on the Union lines. Weldon also sent me this copy of Newt’s photograph, apparently taken in the late 1850s.

I’m sure Weldon will be pleased to see Newt finally out here on the Net which I hope will stimulate interest in his eloquent letters, most of them quoted verbatim in my history of the regiment—-cheap at 99 cents in digital format.

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