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."
What happened to the Jews who lived in Muslim lands?
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Jihad Watch : The establishment of the State of Israel was considered to have made the Jews kaffir harbi,
Infidels at war with Islam, whose contract of protection (dhimma) was
thus revoked.
These expulsions and killings followed. "November Is the
Cruelest Month," by Lyn Julius in (of all places) the Huffington Post, November 25:
To paraphrase TS Eliot, November was always a cruel month
for Jewish citizens of Arab states - and never more so than in the
1940s.
Three popular myths surround the 870,000 Jews who left Arab countries
after Israel was born. The first is that they departed of their own
free will. Second, if they did flee as refugees, it was because Arab
states lashed out spontaneously against their Jewish citizens like a
bull to a red rag (and who could blame them?).
Third, the Arab states
took revenge on their Jews for the plight of Arabs driven out of
Palestine. There are several things wrong with this reading of history. First,
the pressures on Jews were shared with other non-Muslim and ethnic
minorities. Secondly, Arab leaders were making threats against their own
Jewish citizens, and devised a coordinated plan to persecute them,
before the 1947 UN Partition Plan was passed.
Thirdly, violent riots
against defenseless Jews in Arab countries preceded the outbreak of war
in Palestine and the resulting flight of several hundred thousand Arab
refugees.
