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Christian Arab IDF soldier: “I would sacrifice my life for the sake of the State of Israel”

Feb 9, 2014 3:00 am By Robert Spencer

This video gives the lie to the “Palestinian” jihad propaganda about Israel being an “apartheid” state, as well as to the all too common characterization of the Israeli defense against the “Palestinian” jihad as the “Arab/Israeli conflict.” Many Christian Arabs do not support the jihad against Israel, and many non-Arab Muslims do support it. The conflict that Israel faces is not with Arabs as such, but with Islamic jihadists who believe that its existence is an insult to Islam.

“Female Arab Soldier: ‘I Came to Serve My Country and My Home,'” from the IDF Blog, February 4 (thanks to Marc):

WATCH: Monaliza Abdo is Arab, Christian, Israeli and a brave defender of Jews and minorities alike. She wasn’t required to enlist in the Israeli army, but her determination to protect Israel motivated her to volunteer.

As a fighter on Israel’s southern border, she rose through the ranks to become a commander, teaching soldiers how to combat terrorism and other threats. Just over a month ago, she honorably completed three years of service – one more than the required number for Israeli women.

We had the chance to join Monaliza on the day of her release from the IDF. In this video, she speaks to us entirely in Arabic, explaining her commitment to serve the State of Israel and protect all of its citizens. “I keep the country of Israel safe, not only for the Jews but for the Arabs, too,” she says. “I came [to the IDF] to serve my country and my home.”

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  1. London Jim says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 3:13 am

    Bless her brave cotton socks.

    • bikeboy says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 8:37 am

      Amen.

    • bikeboy says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 8:41 am

      In my life we will not see peace in the MiddleEast, maybe never. Too many that terrorize their OEM, thr Taliban that steals children from villages so they can return to impose Sharia Law. This is a long hard battle if intelligence and not fanaticism will win.

    • Rob says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 2:01 pm

      You go girl!!

  2. Sam says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 3:22 am

    “Christian Arabs” are not Arabs! Ask Father Gabriel Nadaf of Nazareth.

    • Januk36 says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 5:00 am

      Sam – it is probably correct and still pointless to her testimony. An “arab” with Berber, Copt or Syrian ancestors will still consider himself an arab and to claim that the arab culture spread exclusively is debatable.

      • Sam says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 6:00 am

        Januk, please take a look at this. Interesting stuff.

        http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/storm-rages-over-status-of-israeli-christians/

        • Januk36 says

          Feb 9, 2014 at 6:51 am

          Sam, thanks for sharing the link. Personally I welcome the development described therein. It might set an example for other christians to free themselves from their dhimmitude in other middle eastern countries and challenge the pathological muslim and “liberal” westerner perception of Israel as “the” jewish villain state. More people should know that christians and even muslim bedouins find the state and its values worth defending.

          PS: my original post meant to say “..spread exclusively by islam…”

    • marclouis says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 11:47 am

      She can call her self-anything she wants, bless her, I suggest that when decent infidel like her want to be called Arab, we differentiate by using a capital “A”.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 3:45 am

    A one-state solution with Arabic as an official language and Arabic-speaking cantons. Her mother is right: the army is a real education. I encourage young people to try it.

  4. miriam rove says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 10:15 am

    amen.m

  5. Transmaster says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 10:19 am

    What a great story. A far cry from a Islamia Bomb Brassier Berka Babe, who blows herself to Allah Akbar along with innocent and defenseless men, women and children.
    http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/10627/female-arab-christian-one-fighter-breaking-barriers-idf/

  6. Alan S says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 10:50 am

    That is why we have to stop relating ARAB = Muslim, so unjust and should be a human rights issue.

  7. Mulakush says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 11:46 am

    How do you thank such brave people? No amount of thanks is enough.

  8. Mo-Blows says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 11:55 am

    The Israeli, Arab conflict has nothing to do with Race , it has everything to do with Ideology. Islam is an ideology that simply cannot and will not coexist with any other ideologies or religions , in fact it cannot even coexist within itself.

    That’s it in a nutshell.

    Islam is 100% the problem, and it’s hateful intolerant backward 7th century ideology that has failed every single muslim on earth , and the human race ,is the root cause.

    There is no point in pretending otherwise , especially in the face of such overwhelming proof that Islam is more violent and intolerant and by far more aggressive than ANY ideology that ever existed on earth, even Naziism.
    20,000 and counting, acts of violence and terror i less than a decade !!

    These numbers still fall on deaf and wilfully ignorant ears!

    I absolutely believe that IF Islam ever rules the earth that a genocide like nothing ever imagined or past would befall mankind.

    It’s no secret that Islam wants to rule the world and enslave or destroy every single non muslim on earth.

    this is exactly what the long term goals of the Jihad against the west is all about.

    The Muslim brotherhood, CAIR, Al Qaeda, the Taliban etc etc ….

    ALL want to destroy us utterly from within and without, and our cowardly appeasing politicians want to negotiate with them and pretend that this is not happening.

    Western civilization cannot survive such blatant ignorance and stupidity.

  9. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    Unlike the morally retarded Christians I meet here in the US, Copts, Chaldeans and Assyrian Christians know what the islamic world has to offer them — persecution and death.

  10. loach says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:31 pm

    good for this Christian Arab she is fighting for freedom, while most in the west wont to have you way of life and freedom taken away by Sharia.

  11. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Great story! God bless her.

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    “Female Arab Soldier: ‘I Came to Serve My Country and My Home’”
    ……………………………

    Bravo Monaliza Abdo and all those like her!

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 10:36 pm

      I just wanted to say I liked your picture of the Garkad tree. I wonder if anyone has identified what the Garkad tree is in actuality?

  13. London Jim says

    Feb 10, 2014 at 1:05 am

    They’re a family of trees, defcon4, the boxthorn.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 10, 2014 at 3:24 am

      Thanks, I think I’ll buy some and plant them next Arbor Day.

  14. mohammed says

    Feb 10, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    If she was brave she would fight for palestine along with her muslim arab brothers and be ready to lay her life for palestine. But she wants to serve in the IDF as she knows she will not be called to make sacrifices like she would have to if she served the palestine army.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 10, 2014 at 7:48 pm

      You don’t like it, do you, when someone from a dhimmi background shucks off dhimmitude and says: “I am a free person and I *refuse* to serve the mohammedan mob any longer.”

      This woman is no longer a dhimmi, meekly carrying water for Muslim mobster gang bosses. She is free…like the Jews with whom she is choosing to stand as an ally and a fellow citizen.

      She is far, far better off, as a woman and as a Christian, within the Jewish state of Israel, than she would ever be as a dhimmi female near-slave – degraded, humiliated, exploited and physically imperilled, always just one lying khutba away from being gang-raped and murdered by a howling mohammedan mob attacking her community – within an “Arab Islamic” state.

      She’s figured this out, and oh boy, are you spitting, hissing and gnashing your teeth. Because slavemasters just *hate* it when people whom they think ought to be their slaves, *get away*, don’t they? And this one has got away.

  15. London Jim says

    Feb 10, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    Grow up. Get a life, not take a life.

  16. Champ says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    I admire her! …and she is so brave.

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