Black Five has a good video on the men and women of the IDF which, inronically, uses an anti-war song to show how much we have in common with them: liberal democracy, professional military, and many of the same enemies.
MORE: While you’re at it, send them something via PayPal. In other words, support the IDF.
As the IDF continues to push infantry into densely-populated Gaza City, where the brave leaders of the Hamas jihad are believed to be hiding in the basement of a hospital, Washington apparently is working on yet another doomed-to-fail ceasefire to keep the dictator’s club happy.
You’d think American politicians would be smart enough to have figured out what the secular liberal newsrooms of Big Media can’t: that Hamas is a religious movement intent on taking all of Israel back for the Muslims who once controlled it. That’s the reason for their rockets and why no ceasefire will work for long or do anything but allow them to resupply until they can start all over again.
UPDATE: It’s official. Happily, there are no immediate plans for the IDF to withdraw, however. Good thing, as Hamas followed the announcement by launching eight more missiles. And young IDF soldier Gilad Schalit is still their prisoner. Some Israelis feel betrayed by their own government.
Funny how kids, even Palestinian ones, can always pick out the democratic soldiers.
Via Monkey In The Middle.
You can believe Al Reuters, which never stops shilling for the jihadis, when it says the school was a hiding place for refugees frightened from their homes. Or you can take the IDF’s word, which is that it was another Hamas ammo dump with an active mortar tube and rocket launcher. I’ve made my choice.
SSG Emmanueloff, a 22-year-old infantryman of the Golani Bde, apparently is the first IDF KIA in the Gaza ground operation, at least according to the IDF’s English-language site. Others have been seriously wounded. May there be no more, though that isn’t very likely. This war that the Hamas terrorists have started isn’t a game.
UPDATE: Alas, there have been four more in quick succession. Small numbers to us are big numbers to little Israel.
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O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
— Psalm 130
Your battle is also our battle. Get some.
Via Monkey In The Middle. And with this.
It looks like the IDF is close to moving into Gaza, although the ground is wet from recent hard rains, because leaflets warning civilians to evacuate have been dropped and the mobile artillery prep appears to have begun. Good luck, guys.
UPDATE: So it begins. Tanks, engineers and infantry move into northern Gaza.
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