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."
One hundred years of Arab warfare against Jewish civilians Dr. Michael Krampner
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Hebron Massacre, August 1929
INN : Michael Krampner, a retired American
trial lawyer, who also earned a Ph.D. In Jewish history, lives in
Jerusalem where he is improving his Hebrew, learning traditional Jewish
texts, reading widely on historical and political subjects and is
engaged with family.
Yardena Schwartz,
an experienced journalist who lived in Israel for many years, has the
insight to recognize that the hatred some Arabs hold for Jews and the
willingness of those Arabs to rape, maim, and murder Jews and then lie
about what they have done is not a new phenomenon.
Although
many of the Arabs who now call themselves ‘Palestinians’ and their
apologists assert that their brutality is a response to the supposed
oppression of the State of Israel, Schwartz demonstrates in her
admirably detailed book, Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacrein Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict that
some Arabs have been making war on Jews and committing atrocities
against Jews in Israel since the 1920s when the Arabs greatly
outnumbered the Jews, the British ruled there by mandate of the League
of Nations and the Jews of Mandate Palestine were politically powerless,
unable to oppress anyone.
Schwartz
also skillfully shows the vicious similarities between the Arab
massacres of Jews in Mandate Palestine in the 1920s and the Arab
massacre of Jews in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
Ghosts of a Holy War, begins
with the letters of David Shainberg of Memphis, Tennessee, son of a
Ukrainian Jewish immigrant to the United States who traveled to Hebron
in Mandate Palestine in 1928 to learn at the Yeshiva there. His letters
from his year in Yeshiva showed that the small Jewish community of
Hebron, partly ancient Sephardi Jewish families and partly more recent
arrivals who were connected to the yeshiva were not
Zionists who intended to dispossess the Arabs but religious Jews who
wanted to be close to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the Cave of Machpelah.
