''In the U. S. Army, you get punished for calling a "rifle" a "gun." Likewise in the American Navy if you call a "ship" a "boat." In the Israeli military, it feels like the remains of the Second Temple are dumped upon you if, in training, you do anything which, translated into real combat, might endanger enemy civilians.''
In a race among
these three, which do you suppose will arrive at rock bottom first: the Democratic Party, the Norwegian Nobel Committee or the United Nations?
Well, the Norwegian Nobel Committee can't do anything self-destructive for another year, so I guess it's between the Democrats and the U.N. Most of you would probably vote for the Democrats; what with "Cap-and-Trade," "Cash-for-Clunkers," stumbling along behind their leader to embrace the most utterly disastrous economic system ever practiced, etc. Before you vote, however, please hear and heed my little campaign speech for the United Nations.
The "Chorus Girl's Lament" is rather cute: one chorus girl complains to the other, "Not only did he lie about his yacht; he made me row!" There's nothing cute about the U.N.'s version. It's the bludgeoning instrument tucked inside the Goldstone Report, due to be considered by the General Assembly this week. The Goldstone Report incredibly takes aim at the one country that, above all others in history, takes the most self-sacrificing care to avoid harming enemy civilians. Goldstone then discolors that country's most recent act of self-defense until it resembles not an attempt to stop Hamas' rocket-rain coming in from Gaza, but rather the Rape of Nanking.
WND's Aaron Klein gets to the heart of Israel's decline in his book, "The Late Great State of Israel: How Enemies Within and Without Threaten the Jewish Nation's Survival"
The country, of course, is Israel. Listen to Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and many violent elsewheres: "During Operation Cast Lead [the Israeli invasion of Gaza] the Israel Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare." Col. Kemp goes on to stress that Israel's enemies deliberately use civilians as shields, knowing full well Israeli soldiers are forbidden to shoot in such situations even if that jeopardizes their own lives. Everybody who knows the truth about Israel knows this, but it's good to hear it so emphatically from a non-Jewish military expert with a British accent. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114879