Posted on 08/15/2006 3:37:01 PM PDT by Pokey78
Armed Jews this time around. With an attitude.
Yup, the most likely scenario is Jews killing Germans, after the Germans decline to stop Hezbollah from making their positions rocket launching sites.
No good deed goes unpunished.
You know, I don't have much- okay, ANY faith in the peacekeeping force, but I actually feel a little better knowing there will be Germans there. The collective guilt the German nation feels over the Holocaust would prevent them from doing things in Lebanon (things that other nations...ahem...France...would have no problem doing) that would hurt Israel.
Ah, but the more appropriate headline and story emphasis should have been:
"German Troops to Confront Nazis..... Hezbo-Nazis in Lebanon"
"For the first time in history German armed forces will do what should have been done in 1933 or earlier: confront and crush the illegal armed terror "militia" of depraved Nazi ideologues bent upon world domination and annihilation of the Jews."
THAT would have made for a more interesting angle on the story.... if only we could hope that any of the new, improved UNIFIL forces actually would face down and disarm Hezbollah........ big joke, I'm afraid.
The same goes for all racism: those who are not very racist should not have to be confronted with racism from a group to which they belong; and those who are still racist ought to have that same racism shoved in their faces.
And also for France; if they acknowledge that their country is no longer a great world power, as have the British, Americans would probably be kinder.
Once these people recognize reality, then they can move on.
arson suit.
Why dont they stay in their country and go door to door like the old days and clean up their own muslim terrorist problem.?
In 1945 we weren't allies with Japan either; things change.
“We have to do this, not in spite of the Holocaust but because of it,” Werner Sonne, a leading commentator, said on German state television. “If German troops guard Israel’s borders, they are they to protect Jewish lives. Frankly, there has never been a better reason to bring in soldiers in German uniform.”
This is the only positive thing I see in the whole ceasefire. The Germans finally have a chance to prove that after all these years 'They get it.'. I pray that they really do.
I'd hardly call participation in this farce a "good deed".
Maybe not... But they are likely to be the only part of Unifil remotely sympathetic to Israel. I personally approve of that at least.
It only stands to reason that German troops would be willing to square off against Israeli troops now that Germany has gone Communist.
I think Bush and Merkel put their heads together on this one. Bush can see that the troops lining up for participation in this UNIFIL force are more pro-Hezbollah in sympathy than pro-Israel. Merkel is very pro-Israel. She is anti-Hezbollah and terrorists, unlike her horrible predecessor Gerard Schroeder. Merkel and Bush get along well, and she, like Tony Blair, sees the dangers that terrorism brings. I'm delighted Germany will be coming in, as it will offset some of the other force members, and might actually fight Hezbollah, and protect Israel. Germany has a golden opportunity here to give back to the Jewish nation that which it once sought to destroy, the lives of the Jews. Plus they can effectively patrol by air the Syrian-Lebanon border and prevent re-arming of Hezbollah. I'd never trust the French or Turks to do that. So, bravo, Merkel, you go girl.
I am kinda focused on "they are they to protect Jewish lives". Maybe the Germans are really ready to face their past and prove that things are different now. Maybe I am naive.
The French are too arrogant to admit that they are a mediocre country with lots of stinky cheese and women with bad dye jobs.
The Europeans killed their Jews and now they are stuck with all these Islamofascists!
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