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Guardians of Israel

Posted on April 8, 2011 | Comments Off on Guardians of Israel

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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Last night in Israel

Posted on April 3, 2011 | Comments Off on Last night in Israel

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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Esti Ginsberg: Rule 5

Posted on March 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Esti Ginsberg: Rule 5

The 19-year-old Israeli model  is serving her obligated time in the IDF.

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Flowers In The Gun Barrels

Posted on November 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Flowers In The Gun Barrels

first-idf-paratroopers-at-the-western-wall-june-1967I never have cared for American hip hop, but I love this Hebrew remix of “Prahim ba kane,” a victory song from Israel’s 1967 war in which they took back the Western Wall (right).

The song was first recorded by an IDF army band but it’s bested by the Zionist rapper Subliminal and his group, including sultry pop singer Sivan Behnam.

The refrain in English goes: “The sun will shine red in Gaza and Rapiakh/ The moon will shine white over the peak of Mount Hermon/ Flowers in the gun barrels and young girls in the watchtowers/ Soldiers will return in great number to the city.”

And the rest of the lyrics. Very hard to sing along in English, though.

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Ami Yisrael Chai

Posted on June 4, 2010 | Comments Off on Ami Yisrael Chai

There is no such thing as a PR war. Soldiers do not risk their lives for public relations, but for the security of their country and its people.

The more countries like Turkey and, soon, Ireland, try, in  conjunction with Jihadi terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah, to “break” Israel’s self-defense blockade of Gaza—to prevent the importation of missiles  and concrete to build bunkers—the harder the IDF will fight.

As they should. I doubt these countries really want war with Israel, but if they keep this up, they will surely have it. Israel is not the play toy of the UN, the White House, the news media, or the “international community.” It is a sovereign nation and it will endure.

UPDATE:  Indeed, the Jihad’s useful Irish idiots were stopped and their ship taken to Ashdod for inspection of their goods. Hamas will probably reject their overland delivery, but Gaza already gets billions from the EU and UN and hardly needs aid. It’s just a game the anti-Zionists play and the gullible who are not actually Jihad supporters are taken in.

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Asymmetric warfare

Posted on May 31, 2010 | Comments Off on Asymmetric warfare

The “peace activists” on that Turkish ship clearly got what they deserved, i.e. gunfire, as shown in this IDF video from Jerusalem blogger Richard Landes. But Roger L. Simon also has a point in his PJTV interview with Landes: Why wasn’t the IDF better prepared for violent resistance when they boarded the Mavi Marmara to search its bound-for-Gaza cargo? Meanwhile, I agree with Landes that it’s time for Israel to recognize that Turkey is not its friend and to join the West in condemning Turkish complicity in the Armenian genocide. Long overdue.

UPDATE:  Sensible words from Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Tzachi HaNegbi (Kadima):  “After Operation Cast Lead, the government decided to impose a maritime blockade on Gaza [in accordance with international law governing parties in a state of armed conflict – ed.], and that all cargo headed for Gaza would be checked first in the Ashdod port…

“This issue is a matter of total consensus in Israel, and the reason is the sense of injustice that we all feel, the cynicism and hypocrisy that typify the attack on the State of Israel, and the sense we all have that the IDF’s operation yesterday was logical and ethical.

“We left Gaza five years ago, yet for years we have been attacked from Gaza, and our soldier Gilad Shalit is still being held in a dark dungeon in Gaza. We therefore feel that we have the right to act in the way we did.”

Via Arutz Sheva (Israel International News).

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Confessions of a Zionist Soldier

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off on Confessions of a Zionist Soldier

The life and thoughtful blog remarks of an Israeli soldier serving in an Israel Defense Forces field unit. Including this good post on checkpoints and Passover.

Via Middle East Analysis.

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