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."
Afghanistan: The last known Jew in the country is leaving - Judaism was in Afghanistan long before Islam's existence
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Zabulon Simantov
Jihad Watch : It’s all the fault of America ending an endless war, you see — if it
actually ends at all. He is leaving “fearing that the U.S. military’s
promise to leave the country will leave a vacuum to be filled with
radical groups such as the Taliban.”
All right. But the Americans have been there for 20 years. Why is he
the last Jew in the country? Didn’t the Jewish community thrive while
the Americans have been there? To attach this to some never-ending
obligation to remain in Afghanistan and ignore the ugly reality of Islamic antisemitismis establishment media propaganda at its finest.
“The last known Jew in Afghanistan is leaving,” by Gabe Friedman, JTA, April 4, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The man who has been known as the last Jew in Afghanistan
for well over a decade is leaving for Israel, fearing that the U.S.
military’s promise to leave the country will leave a vacuum to be filled
with radical groups such as the Taliban.
“I will watch on TV in Israel to find out what will happen in Afghanistan,” Zabulon Simantov told Arab News on Sunday….
His wife, a Jew from Tajikistan, and their two daughters have lived
in Israel since 1998. But Simantov has stayed in his native Afghanistan
to tend to its lone synagogue, located in the capital Kabul, through
decades of violence and political turmoil, including a period of Taliban
rule and the country’s war with the U.S.
“I managed to protect the synagogue of Kabul like a lion of Jews here,” he said to Arab News. Simantov, a carpet and jewelry seller, was born in the Afghan city of
Herat, which decades ago was home to hundreds of Jews. He eventually
moved to Kabul but fled to Tajikistan in 1992 before returning to the
capital city.
Without him around, the synagogue will close, ending an era of Jewish
life in the country that scholars believe began at least 2,000 years
ago.
“If the Taliban return, they are going to push us out with a slap in
the face,” Simantov told Radio Free Europe last week for an article on
the exodus of many of the country’s minority populations.
