Comrades in Arms and Misplaced 'Compassion'

'The Jerusalem militias sent out a company of 38 young men, half of them students from Hebrew University, to relieve the besieged Gush Etzion villages. It shows the desperation of the Israeli Jews at the time that a company of 38 people was considered a major reinforcement. The fighters carried heavy packs of food and ammunition, and so proceeded slowly. On the way to Gush Etzion, one militiaman fractured his ankle and was taken back to Jerusalem by two others, leaving the company with 35 fighters.

'They marched by night, led by two experienced scouts. But before reaching their goal, they were discovered by an elderly Arab shepherd. (A British version of events later had them detected by two Arab women shepherds.) The militiamen grabbed the shepherd, but were then faced with a moral dilemma. Some proposed shooting him on the spot, because, they said, if he were released he would immediately alert the Arab militias in the vicinity, who would attack the relief company. War is war, they argued, and the lives of hundreds of people depended on the success of their operation.

'Others among the Jewish militiamen objected. We cannot just kill him in cold blood, they said. Our military operation must be ethically pure. And we can't even tie him up and leave him in a cave - he might die there slowly, or he might escape and alert the Arabs. The shepherd (or shepherds in the alternative version) swore on all that was holy that if released, he would not breathe a word. In the end, the Jewish militiamen decided to release the shepherd. The shepherd immediately ran to the nearest village housing the Arab militias and alerted them to the presence of the Jews. The Arabs attacked the outmanned and outgunned Jews. Every single Jewish militiaman was massacred. Their bodies were horribly mutilated. Later, the Arabs demanded money from the British in return for the corpses.

'Even worse, the Gush Etzion villages were never relieved or reinforced. Without reinforcements, those villages eventually fell to the onslaught of the Arab marauders and the regular Jordanian army (the Arab Legion). When Kfar Etzion, the largest of the villages, fell, virtually the entire Jewish civilian population was massacred, 250 people in all.  Only three Jews survived.'

In June 2005, a group of US Navy Seals were operating in Afghanistan against the Taliban, attempting to rescue other Americans, when they similarly were detected by three shepherds, one a child.  They allowed the shepherds to go free.  They alerted the Taliban.  All but one of the Americans were killed. 

Americans and Israelis are comrades in arms fighting Islamofascist terror, and sometimes also suffer from the same misplaced "compassion."

Israel Leftist Collaborating with Holocaust Deniers

The Palestinian Newspaper Printed in Hebrew

Makes Pravda under Brezhnev look truly diverse
Ah Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, the home of Gideon Levy and Amira Hass who never met an Israeli deserving of being defended from terrorists, the newspaper whose idea of pluralism is running one non-leftist item for each 100 leftist ones, the "newspaper" that lets its anti-Zionist ideology infiltrate the news, the medium that makes Pravda under Brezhnev look truly diverse. (Levy is so openly anti-Semitic that he just won the "European-Mediterranean Prize for Cultural Dialogue." My guess is that Ernst Zundel will get it next year.) Haaretz' editor David Landau recently urged the United States to "rape Israel" (his words) into capitulating to Arab demands, in effect calling on the US to extinguish Israeli sovereignty. Interestingly, Haaretz is also fanatically anti-American, and loves to reprint articles by American leftist journalists and by Eurotrash about how evil America is.

Below, Landau when he is not busy promoting rape of Israel.