Tag Archives: IDF

Happy New Year, y’all

Posted on December 31, 2008 | Comments Off on Happy New Year, y’all

Still scouting around for appropriate links for likely end of the year sentiments.

I hope the IDF can end the Gaza deal with minimal casualties of its own. I’m sure our spineless leaders–who nevertheless provide IAF bombs–will force them to quit soon, as they always do.

Mr. Boy claims he wants to stay up until midnight, but he probably won’t make it. He had a sleepover last night at a pal’s place out in the western hills, events which usually mean little actual sleep. Fortunately he hasn’t heard about this yet, so we’re safe for another year, anyhow.

I’m hustling to finish a Civil War historical novel in time for Amazon’s Feb. 2 fiction contest. That will be it for me and make-believe. My next literary attempt will be some non-fiction Texana.

Mrs. Charm and I will spend a quiet evening and then enjoy her day off tomorrow, although forecast is for chilly. At the least we’ll get going on airline reservations for a planned D.C. trip in March.

UPDATE: My novel made the first cut to the top twenty percent. Then it went down in flames on the second cut to five percent. Oh, well. Bragging rights, at least, in the impending hunt for an agent.

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Defend, don’t invade

Posted on December 29, 2008 | Comments Off on Defend, don’t invade

As much as I support the Israeli bombing response to Palestinian rocket attacks, I hope the IDF follows Haaretz’s logic and avoids a ground invasion. Not for the enemy’s sake but for the sake of the young soldiers of the IDF. Certainly, nothing besides full-scale war is likely to stop the rockets permanently. And such war is impossible of success as long as Israel’s munitions come from the West which has a Leftist news media and its own interests in keeping the oil ticks happy. Even if we became energy independent, those interests (and the media) would remain. So periodic bombing to make the rocketing expensive, followed by more diplomacy, is probably the best that can be achieved.

UPDATE:  Indeed, Hamas’ strategy relies on counting on its client media telling it like it isn’t.  Uh oh, IDF has called up the reserves.

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Thanks from Israel

Posted on August 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Thanks from Israel

The highlight of parents’ night tonight at Camp Shalom, for me, anyhow, was when Yoni and Yonatan, in a projected video clip showing them leaning on the fully-depressed barrel of a Merkava tank in a motor pool somewhere in Israel, thanked all the campers for their letters. All the kids cheered. Mr. Boy said Yoni was the favorite, and he probably got the most letters, because his name was "the shortest and so it was the easiest to write." Yoni did seem to smile the broadest in the clip, as if he was sharing a private joke.

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Checkpoint value

Posted on May 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Checkpoint value

To hear the media tell it, Israel’s checkpoints don’t do much more than harrass the long-suffering Palestinians. The Palis are always trying to get the "peace process" to eliminate the security checkpoints. They usually fail because every so often, another suicide bomber tries to get through, like the 20-year-old Arab man wearing five pipe bombs who was shot and killed by the IDF at a Samaria checkpoint last night.

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Yom HaZikaron

Posted on May 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Yom HaZikaron

The Remembrance Day commemoration of the IDF fallen, and the soldiers who remain in captivity, was very moving this evening, just up the road from the rancho at the Jewish Community Center. The center’s campus streets are alive with Israeli flags, for Sunday’s Israel Independence Day festival. But Remembrance Day always comes first. This one ended with a showing of "With All Your Soul," an Israeli documentary of the death of Major Roi Klein in last summer’s Second Lebanon War.

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Help the IDF

Posted on September 23, 2007 | Comments Off on Help the IDF

Help restore a vandalized snack shack for IDF soldiers. Helps if you have a PayPal account, but it can be established with a credit card number. Good photos of the young soldier patrons are at the link.

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Who won, again?

Posted on August 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Who won, again?

If Hez really won the recent dustup with the IDF, why is the Lebanese PM talking about peace treaties with Israel? Heresy! And why is Amir Taheri saying in the Wall Street Journal that Iran’s "supreme guide" Ali Khamenei is going to be sorry that he gets his news from CNN? (As if anyone wouldn’t be).

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