Rudyard Kipling"
“When 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 soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It 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."
If anti-Zionism wants to be an intellectually respectable
position, it needs to directly address the charges against it by
answering these questions:
1. Which other nations have lost their right to self-determine through
their conduct, or are the Jews singularly evil? Alternatively, which
other countries that should not have been created should also have their
independence reversed?
2. With the horrors of persecution fresh in living memory, is it
reasonable to expect Jews to exchange the sovereign equality they
presently enjoy for permanent subordination to the very states that once
persecuted them?
3. How will anti-Zionists fully guarantee Jews’ personal safety from
anti-Semitic persecution after they revoke the right of Jews to be the
ultimate guarantors of their own security?
It’s just not good enough to fall back on the old canard that Jews only
equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism in order to to silence dissent.
Far from it: I want to hear these people account for themselves. Anti-Zionists
must answer these three questions head-on if they are to purge the
stench of anti-Semitism that is so redolent in their ideology.
