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."
Bezalel Smotrich is Right: There is No Such Thing as the Palestinian People By Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Robert Spencer : Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissed the existence of a
separate Palestinian people in a speech he delivered in Paris on Sunday.
This has caused predictable outrage from the Arabs, from the EU’s Josep
Borrell, and from the Bidenites, who found his remarks on this matter
“unhelpful.” But is his statement false? A preliminary Jihad Watch
report is here,
and more on Smotrich’s speech can be found here: “Israel’s Smotrich:
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2023:
“There is no such thing as Palestinians because
there is no such thing as a Palestinian people,” said Smotrich who heads
the Religious Zionist Party.
“Who are the [real] Palestinians? I am Palestinian,” he said.
He recalled his family’s 13 generations in the Land of
Israel, mentioning his grandmother who had been born in the northern
border town of Metula over a hundred years ago before the creation of
the state.
His ancestors and his grandmother were “Palestinians,” he said.
Before 1948, the territory that now encompasses the modern state of
Israel had been called Palestine. The Romans used that term to refer to
that territory after they conquered the ancient state of Israel.
Smotrich might have added that the place name Syria Palaestina, which
was then shortened to “Palestine,” was given to the Roman province of
Judaea in the early 2nd century AD.
The renaming is often presented as
having been performed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the wake of the
132-135 AD Bar Kokhba revolt. Scholars suggest it was enacted to
“disassociate the Jewish people from their historical homeland.”
