I once heard about a bar fight between a big oafish bar bully and a rather soft-spoken, medium sized Jewish sailor.
All evening the bully had been trying to pick a fight with anyone, and had finally set his sights on this diminutive Jewish sailor ... figuring him for a safe target.
When the Jew refused to be goaded into a fight the moron sucker punched him from behind on the side of the head so hard that blood instantly started to pour from this poor man's mutilated ear.
Everyone present was horrified and was prepared to absolutely murder this guy, but the Jewish sailor quickly turned on him and began to single-handed
back him towards a corner with a series of stinging jabs and upper cuts that gave more than a hint to a youth spent boxing in a small gym in the Bronx.
Each punch opened a cut on the bully's startled face and by the time he had been backed completely into the corner he was blubbering for someone to stop the fight. He invoked his split lips and chipped teeth as reasons to stop the fight. He begged us to stop the fight because he could barely see through the river of blood that was pouring out of his split and swollen brows.
Nobody moved. Not one person.
The only sound was the sickening staccato sound of this sailor's lightning fast fists making contact with new areas of the guy's head. The only sound I have heard since that was remotely similar was from the first Rocky film when Sylvester Stallone was punching sides of beef in the meat locker.
Finally the bully's pleading turned to screams.... a high, almost womanly shriek. And still the punches continued relentlessly.
Several people in the bar took a few tentative steps as though they wanted to try to break it up at that point, but hands reached out from the crowd and held them tight. I'm not ashamed to say that mine were two of the hands that held someone back.
You see, in between each blow the sailor had begun chanting a soft cadence: "Say[punch]you [punch]give [punch]up[punch]... say [punch]you [punch]were [punch]wrong [punch]".
He had been repeating it to the bully almost from the start but we only became aware of it when the typical barroom cheers had died down and we began to be sickened by the sight and sound of the carnage.
This coward stood there shrieking in the corner of the bar trying futilely to block the carefully timed punches that were cutting his head to tatters.. right down to the skull in places. But he refused to say that he gave up... or that he was wrong.
Even in the delirium of his beating he believed in his heart that someone would stop the fight before he had to admit defeat. I'm sure this strategy had served him well in the past and had allowed him to continue on his career as a barroom bully.
Finally, in a wail of agony the coward shrieked "I give up", and Jewish sailor gently backed away from him.
I'm sure you can guess why I have shared this story today. I'm not particularly proud to have heard of such a bloody spectacle, and the sound of that bully's woman-like shrieks will haunt me to my grave. But I learned something that evening that Israel had better learn for itself if it is to finally be rid of at least one of its tormentors:
This is one time an Arab aggressor must be allowed to be beaten so badly that every civilized nation will stand in horror, wanting desperately to step in and stop the carnage... but knowing that the fight will only truly be over when one side gives up and finally admits defeat.
Just as every person who had ever rescued that bully from admitting defeat helped create the cowardly brute of that evening in the bar, every well-intentioned power that has ever stepped in and negotiated a cease-fire for an Arab aggressor has helped create the monsters we see around us today.
President Lahoud of Lebanon, a big Hezbollah supporter and a close ally of Syria, has been shrieking non-stop to the UN Security Council for the past two days to get them to force Israel into a cease fire.
Clearly he has been reading his autographed copy of 'Military Success for Dummies Arab Despots' by the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Ever since
Nasser accidentally discovered the trick in '56, every subsequent Arab leader has stuck to his tried and true formula for military success: Instigate a war.
Once the war is well underway and you are in the process of having your *** handed to you... get a few world powers to force your western opponent into a cease fire. Whatever you do, don't surrender or submit to any terms dictated by your enemy. That would ruin everything! All you have to do is wait it out and eventually the world will become sickened at what is being done to your soldiers and civilian population... and will force a truce. Once a truce has been called you can resume your intransigence (which probably caused the conflict in the first place), and even declare victory as your opponent leaves the field of battle. This tactic has never failed. Not once.
In fact it worked so will for the Egyptians in 1973, that to this day they celebrate the Yom Kippur War - a crushing defeat at the hands of Israel - as a military victory! No kidding... it's a national holiday over there!
President Lahoud has already begun to shriek like a school girl to the UN Security Council to "Stop the violence and arrange a cease-fire, and then after that we'll be ready to discuss all matters."
Uh huh. Forgive me if I find that a tad hard to swallow. He allowed Hezbollah to take over his country. He allowed the regular Lebanese army to provide radar targeting data for the Hezbollah missile that struck the Israeli destroyer He has turned a blind eye while Iranian and Syrian weapons, advisers and money have poured into his country. And now that his country is in ruins he wants to call it a draw.
As much as it may sicken the world to stand by and watch it happen, strong hands need to hold back the weak-hearted and let the fight continue until one side finally admits unambiguous defeat
2006-08-12
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davydd I couldn't agree with you more.The US could learn a lot from Israel.Instead of the sanitized version of war that the US uses,Israel still utilizes some old school war tactics like flattening whole areas instead of the pin point
bombings used by the US.War should be pain full to all involved so the end of the war is not prolonged.If the US used these tactics we might not be in such a mess in Iraq,instead of destroying all the infrastructure and buildings which can be used by terrorists and insurgents as safe houses and cover for snipers we do this pin point accuracy bombing and missile strikes to take out suspected hide outs and military targets leaving buildings intact and combatants alive and ready to kill our troops.I think it's about time Israel put a stop to all the rocket and suicide bombers.Can you imagine living in a country surrounded by countries who are hostile to you simply because of your race and some of whom have called for your country to be wiped of the map or who refuse to acknowledge your right as a nation to exist.I hate to think of all the death in that region of the world but the Lebanese Government has allowed this situation to build up to this point,If they would have controlled Hezbollah in the first place this action would not be necessary,so I think they have no one to blame but themselves.
2006-08-12 10:50:08
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answered by bigkyle28 4
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If a country (or in this case a terrorist organization fronting as though they care for their people) commits an act of war, they better be ready to fight and not cry for a cease-fire. That being said, I wish so many civilians had not been killed in this conflict. War is meant for soliders- not innocent civilians.
2006-08-12 10:11:27
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answered by Anonymous
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what an excellent essay on the Israeli / lebanon conflict almost convincing,but i suggest you google " the zionist protocols " also look up Leo Strauss i think we should arm ourselves with as much truth as we possibly can because once we reach the end of the road it is too late to turn back
2006-08-12 10:35:27
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answered by Anonymous
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You got things back wards
I will quote a small quote from the link I am referring to
"Israel is often portrayed as David confronted by Goliath, but the converse is closer to the truth. Contrary to popular belief, the Zionists had larger, better equipped and better led forces during the 1947-49 War of Independence, and the Israel Defence Forces won quick and easy victories against Egypt in 1956 and against Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967 – all of this before large-scale US aid began flowing. Today, Israel is the strongest military power in the Middle East. Its conventional forces are far superior to those of its neighbours and it is the only state in the region with nuclear weapons. Egypt and Jordan have signed peace treaties with it, and Saudi Arabia has offered to do so. Syria has lost its Soviet patron, Iraq has been devastated by three disastrous wars and Iran is hundreds of miles away. The Palestinians barely have an effective police force, let alone an army that could pose a threat to Israel. According to a 2005 assessment by Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies, ‘the strategic balance decidedly favours Israel, which has continued to widen the qualitative gap between its own military capability and deterrence powers and those of its neighbours.’ If backing the underdog were a compelling motive, the United States would be supporting Israel’s opponents."
And this part
"the president of the World Jewish Congress:
'If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country . . . We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?'"
"Israel’s backers also portray it as a country that has sought peace at every turn and shown great restraint even when provoked. The Arabs, by contrast, are said to have acted with great wickedness. Yet on the ground, Israel’s record is not distinguishable from that of its opponents. Ben-Gurion acknowledged that the early Zionists were far from benevolent towards the Palestinian Arabs, who resisted their encroachments – which is hardly surprising, given that the Zionists were trying to create their own state on Arab land. In the same way, the creation of Israel in 1947-48 involved acts of ethnic cleansing, including executions, massacres and rapes by Jews, and Israel’s subsequent conduct has often been brutal, belying any claim to moral superiority. Between 1949 and 1956, for example, Israeli security forces killed between 2700 and 5000 Arab infiltrators, the overwhelming majority of them unarmed. The IDF murdered hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war in both the 1956 and 1967 wars, while in 1967, it expelled between 100,000 and 260,000 Palestinians from the newly conquered West Bank, and drove 80,000 Syrians from the Golan Heights."
"During the first intifada, the IDF distributed truncheons to its troops and encouraged them to break the bones of Palestinian protesters. The Swedish branch of Save the Children estimated that ‘23,600 to 29,900 children required medical treatment for their beating injuries in the first two years of the intifada.’ Nearly a third of them were aged ten or under. The response to the second intifada has been even more violent, leading Ha’aretz to declare that ‘the IDF . . . is turning into a killing machine whose efficiency is awe-inspiring, yet shocking.’ The IDF fired one million bullets in the first days of the uprising. Since then, for every Israeli lost, Israel has killed 3.4 Palestinians, the majority of whom have been innocent bystanders; the ratio of Palestinian to Israeli children killed is even higher (5.7:1). It is also worth bearing in mind that the Zionists relied on terrorist bombs to drive the British from Palestine, and that Yitzhak Shamir, once a terrorist and later prime minister, declared that ‘neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat.’"
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
FYI, Israel occupies parts of four other countries during it's history and has defied 50+ UN security council resolutions.
2006-08-12 10:21:24
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answered by mraei 2
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or here"s another Zionist reason
"Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considred as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet, and serve us as our slaves."
Menachem Begin Israeli Prime Minister
2006-08-12 10:07:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Here's the link to the original story.
2006-08-12 11:15:28
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answered by coragryph 7
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You win wars by killing people and breaking things
2006-08-12 10:09:30
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answered by Anonymous
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the only difference is... if the jewish sailor would have killed the man... he would be in jail now... and many have already died in the attack and many have "given up"... yet they still were being killed?
2006-08-12 10:15:39
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answered by Anonymous
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Honestly, I hope that Israel kicks Lebanon's @ss!!!
2006-08-12 10:05:33
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answered by cyanne2ak 7
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Oaf.
2006-08-12 10:06:14
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answered by copperyclover 3
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