IDF soldiers spell out "Bibi loser" for not using ground forces in Gaza, accepting truce favorable to Hamas

Don't worry lads! Hamas are congenital liars. They will very soon break the truce (hudna) by launching more rockets. Then you can go in and wipe the floor with them.

Remember that you are a distinguished part of the fourth most powerful army in the world and God is on your side, and your enemy is a collection of loudmouthed d***heads.

Go Israel!

We have one problem, and one problem only, in today's world: Leadership; true, courageous, honest, brave and principled leadership.

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/accursed-book-le-livre-maudit.html

I honestly wish I could join the IDF. But I’m not Jewish or Israeli. This is going to be a long battle. Corners will have to be cut.

I believe Netanyahu did the smart thing. The Gazans will certainly use the hudna period to regroup, set up more missiles, and launch them again. We now know that Israel is capable of handling such a situation.

Over 20 percent of Israel's population is Muslim, and that is without including West Bank, Gaza, or Golan Heights. They are growing faster than others in the country, and IMO are far more serious threat to Jewish Israel than terrorists in Gaza. Those who care about Israel need to figure out how to keep these Israeli Muslims from becoming a headache for non-Muslims in the country.

It isn't just the IDF soldiers - and the people in southern Israel, from Tel Aviv southward - who are disappointed that they didn't get to go in and HAMMER Jihad Fortress Gaza.

It's a lot of other ordinary folks all over the western world - and probably beyond it, in places like India - who have become Islamosavvy over the past few years and have therefore gained a new understanding of Israel's situation.

In the talkbacks to this Jerusalem Post article on the ceasefire

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=292990

UNSC calls for Israel and Hamas to uphold cease-fire

I came across this very interesting story from a poster calling himself 'Viscount Adam', who is I think a diaspora Jew, presently in Australia.

He recounts the 'vox pop' that he personally observed. I won't reproduce all of the posting, just his remarks about what he perceives as a shift in public opinion at ground level in parts of the west.

"Being in Australia at the moment...and in one of the more 'redneck,' usually anti-Israel and anti-Jewish states of the federation.

"**I was in a hospital clinic waiting romm and amazed at the discussions about the news (media is usually pro-Pal to a fault here)** {my emphasis - dda}.

"But, **not a single person I spoke to believed that a truce would hold, that Israel had been in the wrong AT ALL WHATSOEVER and that she should [not] have entered and decimated Gaza and Hamas before even entertaining any sort of a truce. {Note: the 'not' was added by me, to clarify - it's pretty plain from the drift of the whole comment that he meant, 'not a single person believed that Israel should not have entered and decimated Gaza and Hamas..'.- dda}.

"To me, this indicates a watershed change of opinion at a basic level to wards the 'Palestinians' - which people are starting to acknowledge here, are terrorists and fakes.

"I think this war (and whatever semantics one wishes to harp upon, it IS a war) has changed the scales of balance towards Israel's favour in the global PR war.

"Australia is a key ally of the US...but I am hearing nothing positive about Obama, but much positive about the US Democrat-controlled Senate and the Republican House of Representatives.

"But interestingly enough, the message is getting through finally that Britain (and France) butchered their Mandates in the 1920-1940s and created the basis of a fake people - and gave away the Arab 'state' in the BMT to the Arabian Hashemites.

"I am finding it amazing that the myth of the Palestinian people in Gaza, let alone the ones in Judea and Samaria is cracking and that people are openly talking about them being ideological pawn imports to destroy the Jewish State.

"This, in Queensland, of all G-d forsaken places, is somewhat heartening. It does not mean I don't want to be out of here as soon as possible, though. G-d willing!...". END QUOTE

He should not have been quite so surprised...Queensland, to my knowledge, contains quite a few rural pockets that are what one might call 'bible belts' of the evangelical protestant variety, and in those areas there is a strong current of interest in and support for Israel. It's not so much the 'rednecks out in the bush, as the intellectual types in the big cities - in *all* states of Australia - who went to University in the sixties and seventies and there got brainwashed and fell for the whole 'Pity the Poor "Palestinians"' schtick.

i agree with those solders
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Interesting to note that "loser" is spelled lamed-vov-zayin-rosh (haven't set it up to do Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, or Biblical Aramaic)--their "loser" is a borrowing from English!

@dda

Re your comment on Viscount Adam, the social studies chair at my school is reliably socialist, but I remember how once, while saying he didn't care a fig about the Mideast conflicct, he also let slip that he thought the Palestinians were "such utter bastards".

I myself have a sneaky suspicion that among non-Muslims of varied persuasions in a lot of the West, there's a sense that Muslims themselves created Islamophobia where there was none before; and not by lying a concept into existence, but by behaviors that can only anger and disgust the Kufr.

I'll still give individual Muslims the benefit of the doubt, since I've met too many who are (a) decent people, (b) exiting the religion, or (c) simply Muslim by tradition and inertia more than anything else. But I'm also one who has learned more about Islam than he really cared to learn following 09/11/01, and has decided he really doesn't like what he sees.

@miriam rove, DDA:

Miriam, I know you don't like any traditional religion, but I am going to pray for your ancestral country of Iran that God will be merciful, turn the hearts of its people, and prevent a major war from happening--especially a nuclear one, which, I fear, is what's in the offing.

I do not like the mullah-ocracy. I do not like Islam. I support Israel (albeit on natural law rather than by biblical proof-text). But, I suppose that after reading Jonah in the Old Testament, in which God berates the prophet for being angry over the Assyrians' repenting and being spared, I dare to hope that God can do it with many others.

DDA--not all of us Evangelical Protestants accept the Dispensational premillennial view that modern Israel is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. I have always understood that God's chosen are those in Messiah, whether Jew or Gentile. But it is clear that in the aftermath of WWII, the Jews needed a place; and that they've tried to be as good a neighbor as possible in a rough neighborhood.

Also, surprisingly, I once got into some online correspondence with a Christian guy from Mainland China about how even there, where the official Communist line is that Israel is an outpost of Western colonialism, there's a certain amount of pro-Israel sentiment.

The real losers are those morons in the photo and I am not certain that they are Israeli soldiers and if they are that they are part of a fighting unit -- I guess that we will find out in due course.

That aside, the fact of the matter is that 70% of the Israeli population thought that ground invesion should only be used as the last resort.

Does anyone here really believe that a ground invesion would have brought a different resuts other than some dead soldiers? There is no such thing as casualty-free urban fighting. To me every life of an Israeli soldier is precious.

I am not a Bibi fun but this time he was absolutely right in not sending the army into Gaza -- the threat itself was sufficent to stop the rockets with minimum casualties to IDF which was Israel objective all along.