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."
HT RoP : People associate the Jewish-Muslim relationship before the establishment of Israel with tolerance and equality......and that is the problem you have a delusion, it is plain old Hatred of Jews as described in their scriptures.
For Israelis, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
has been accompanied by a wave of terror attacks. Although not a
requisite theological element in Islam, the synthesis of Muslim
religious fervor with anti-Israel and antisemitic violence is sadly
nothing new.
Back in
the early 1930s the Islamic revivalist preacher Izz ad-Din al-Qassam led
hundreds of guerrillas who attacked Jewish targets across Mandatory
Palestine. Upon his death in 1935, Qassam was immediately declared a
martyr. Decades later, Hamas named its military wing and its
self-produced short-range rockets after him.
Better
known from that period was Amin al-Husseini who reached the pinnacle of
the Palestinian national movement by exploiting his clerical authority
as Jerusalem’s grand mufti. Husseini’s mix of religious and nationalist
militancy led him to reject any compromise with the Jews, with neither
partition nor binational solutions being acceptable.