Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
"Jews are not promoting brainwashing children in military training
camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths
of Jews and other non-Muslims. Jews donāt hijack planes; they donāt kill
athletes at the Olympics; or blow themselves up in restaurants. Thereās
not a single Jew who has destroyed a church; thereās not a single Jew
who calls for the death of infidels. Perhaps the world should examine the respective values which exist in the Middle East. As Netanyahu said: āIf
the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more
violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no
more Israel.ā
"Hamas considers all of Israel occupied, illegitimate, a cancer, a crime against humanityWhy
was there an IsraelāGaza war in the first place? Resistance to the
occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media. What
occupation? Seven years ago, in front of the world, Israel pulled out of
Gaza. It dismantled every settlement, withdrew every soldier, evacuated
every Jew, leaving nothing and no one behind. Except for the
greenhouses in which the settlers had grown fruit and flowers for
export. These were left intact to help Gazaās economy ā only to be
trashed when the Palestinians took over."
Sarah Honig: Another Tack: A-Dawla maāana
Our successive confrontations with Gaza are an explicit acknowledgement
that disengagement has failed, that we are not disengaged.
"When the blood-curdling battle cry exhorting the masses to slaughter
the Jews, āItbach al-Yahud,ā was first shouted on April 4, 1920, by Arab
marauders rampaging through the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalemās Old City,
it was accompanied by another mantra: āA-Dawla maāanaā ā the government
is with us. That was the first brazen reverberation of the trust
that Jews can be attacked with impunity, that no deterrence exists. It
was since oft-chanted during the perpetration of other atrocities during
the British Mandate era masterminded by Haj Amin el- Husseini, most
notably the hideous Hebron massacre of 1929."