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."
The Wire Service Headlines That Mislead By Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Robert Spencer : Headlines matter. Investigators have concluded – I know not how —
that 80% of consumers of the news – in newspapers, or online — do not
read beyond the headlines. And that means those headlines can do a lot
of good, or a lot of damage. When it comes to covering Israel, it’s more
often damage. A report on how the major news services headlined their
coverage of recent shootings by the IDF can be found here: “AP, UPI
& Reuters Headlines Erase Distinction Between Terrorists and
Victims,” by Gidon Ben-Zvi, Algemeiner, April 12, 2022:
Fact Check: A Palestinian mother came to the checkpoint and walked towards soldiers, when they told her to stop, she started to run with her hand up.
The soldiers yelled, then shot in the air, then shot one bullet into her leg, then called for an ambulance, and tried to help her pic.twitter.com/Z3su5q4zSx
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר (@emilykschrader) April 10, 2022
Two of the world’s leading
news services — the Associated Press (AP) and United Press
International (UPI) — reported inaccurately on the story of a
Palestinian woman who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
town of Husan on the morning of April 10.
These
headlines give readers the impression of gun-toting IDF soldiers
arbitrarily opening fire on an “unarmed”– and thus innocent — civilian.
She was anything but. In fact, the Israeli media disseminated footage of the woman running toward a checkpoint:
That
a wave of Palestinian terror has washed over Israel over the past
month, prompting heightened security measures, is seemingly
inconsequential for the Associated Press, whose piece fails to note the
mitigating factors that forced the IDF soldier to stop the woman by
shooting at the lower part of her body.
