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."
Defending Israel and Western Civilization More Urgent than Ever by Guy Millière
Monday, April 14, 2025
The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the
goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in
peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel. The West, wrote the
columnist Melanie Phillips, needs "to take off its blinders, join up the
dots and fight like Israel to survive." Pictured: Hamas terrorists on
their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews,
on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty
Images)
Gatestone Institute : In the mainstream European and American
media, the unspeakable October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel seems
largely forgotten.
The media rarely describe Hamas as a terrorist
organization with genocidal aims. When the word "genocide" is used, even by self-described "human rightsorganizations," it is to accuse the victim of the attacks, Israel.
Israel forcibly removed every Jew
from Gaza in 2005 – long before the October 7, 2023 massacre.
Nevertheless, one of Amnesty International's current campaigns, "End
Israel's Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza," continues to refer
to the "occupied Gaza Strip." Gaza has not been occupied for twenty
years; it is not occupied now. Gaza is the theater from where
Palestinians are still firing rockets and missiles at civilian targets in Israel.
Apparently Hamas had been planning the Ocotber 7 attacks on Israel years
before 2023. October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas bulldozed Israel's
fences to slaughter and torture to death 1,200 Israelis, including roasting an infant to death in an oven, among other savageries. atrocities. The terrorist group then kidnapped another 251 people and brought them to Gaza, where 59 are still being held, only 24 of whom are thought still to be alive. Many of these horrors were triumphantly photographed by the Palestinians on Iphones,
In the Amnesty report, the October 7, massacre is cited only once and in extremely sweetened way as a "Hamas led attack". The problem, it seems, was that Israel had the check to retaliate and
had the check ask for its tortured hostages back. For this lack of
courtesy, Amnesty International excoriated it with ferocity:
"Israel's brutal onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza
has killed tens of thousands of people, wiped out entire families,
flattened residential neighborhoods, destroyed critical infrastructure
and forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, over 90% of the
population of the Gaza Strip, causing an unprecedented humanitarian
catastrophe..."
"Israel committed acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention and
did so with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These
acts include killings, inflicting serious physical or mental harm to
members of the protected group and deliberately creating conditions of
life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians
in Gaza."
In reality, of course, all Hamas needs to do to prevent this
destruction is return all the hostages it should not have kidnapped in
the first place. Amnesty International has served up a remarkable inversion of facts.
