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A Tribute to the Israeli Defense Forces
American Thinker ^ | 09/24/2018 | By Harold Goldmeier

Posted on 09/24/2018 1:07:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Israel Defense Forces are so much more than the picture of raw power perceived in news stories and war-centered history books. The IDF functions on a daily basis employing stealth and deception in the battle against Israel's unremitting enemies.

Pre-1967, the state and military were perceived as underdogs fighting the good fight against all odds. The devastating effectiveness and efficiency with which the IDF knocked out and embarrassed Arab armies changed the perception of the IDF and the Jewish people into a conquering military machine. The success was so decisive that it altered the mindset of the Jewish people from ragtag refugees and the world's piñata into a "don't mess with me" poster child. Jews are now tough and invincible.

Centuries-long persecutions of the Jewish people, the Enlightenment culminating in the Holocaust, paved the way for implementing the revolutionary thinking called Zionism. A homeland by legal authority, defended by a Jewish army, morphed into a political ideology, then a state. Yet there is room for those who also believe in diplomacy, democracy, and prayer.

Security and safety are the central missions, but the IDF is also the vehicle to assimilate and acculturate refugees, immigrants, and native residents of other races and faiths. The IDF accepts people from disparate cultures arriving from the far corners of the world...white, black, brown, religious and secular, Jew, Bedouin, Arab, Christian, or Druze, educated and illiterate, survivors and sabras. They meet in IDF tents, on IDF training grounds. Their lives literally depend on one another.

It's the IDF that is responsible for the Jewish condition today that among the world's 65M refugees, there is not one Jew for the first time in 2,000 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 09/24/2018 1:07:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Jews have always been good fighters, even in ancient times, when more often than not they were outnumbered by wealthier and more powerful adversaries, like the Egyptians and the Seleucids.


2 posted on 09/24/2018 1:11:38 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
It's the IDF that is responsible for the Jewish condition today that among the world's 65M refugees, there is not one Jew for the first time in 2,000 years.
Oh, and BTW, U.N., E.U. -- the US embassy is moving to Jerusalem.

3 posted on 09/24/2018 1:57:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; Texas Fossil; Liz; LS; mosaicwolf; unkus; rodguy911; raiderboy; Howie66; ...

IDF Documentary

God has blessed you in all that you have done... He led you through this great wilderness. God was with you...

Deuteronomy 2:7

I’ve saved this documentary because of the story being told in the first 6-1/2 minutes. It’s worth seeing and hearing.

Watch beginning at 0 through the 6:40 point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjNUWjvuEaw


4 posted on 09/24/2018 2:22:10 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s exactly what they want to change.


5 posted on 09/24/2018 2:27:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Yes.


6 posted on 09/24/2018 3:01:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Jews often had an unfair advantage of having the true God on their side.

We should learn from that and emulate that.


7 posted on 09/24/2018 3:06:49 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: ExTexasRedhead

It was agreat documentary! Leftists in Israel, ‘rats from NY and LA. Are undermining morale there as well as here. They must be #topped!


8 posted on 09/24/2018 11:14:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

It was agreat documentary! Leftists in Israel, ‘rats from NY and LA. Are undermining morale there as well as here. They must be #topped!


9 posted on 09/24/2018 11:14:58 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: SeekAndFind; Eleutheria5; SunkenCiv; nuconvert
This



was first published 06SEP2018 at https://unsplash.com/photos/sjynUnr9ikA

When and where was it at a billboard?
10 posted on 09/27/2018 8:11:41 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

A: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45665280


11 posted on 09/27/2018 8:16:16 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

Did I ever say this was on a billboard? I think I posted one reply to this thread.


12 posted on 09/27/2018 11:41:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The council leader in the Iranian city of Shiraz has ordered an investigation after Israeli soldiers featured on a billboard marking the Iran-Iraq war. The billboard used a photoshopped picture showing the backs of three male soldiers standing on a rocky outcrop.

After it was put up in a square in central Shiraz this week, people noticed the men were wearing Israeli uniforms and carrying M16 rifles.

It also emerged that a female soldier was cropped out of the original photo.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45665280
;-)


13 posted on 09/28/2018 1:16:24 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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