Posted on 08/07/2014 10:07:10 PM PDT by OddLane
TEL AVIV — The Israeli song “Ein Li Eretz Acheret” is a curious tune. “I have no other country,” go the lyrics, “even if my land is on fire.”
It’s hard to find a Jewish Israeli who doesn’t identify with it. Lefty Israelis interpret it as a protest song. It was sung at demonstrations against the 1982 Lebanon War and vigils following the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Israelis on the right interpret it as a patriotic song about attachment to the land; they sang it after terrorist attacks and during the 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
I was reminded of the song in recent days as I read a string of articles by smart, savvy, knowledgeable, non-Israeli Jews, who say that the brutal war in Gaza has made them question their Zionism.
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Israel fought with her hands tied behind her back. She needs to destroy her islamoNazi enemies, not play patsy with them with warnings of all returned fire, etc. Wherever Israel picked up these “ humanitarian rules of engagement” she made a big big mistake -,- she’s left the enemy in place — and will just wind up having to defend herself all over again just as soon as the enemy is rearmed (by USA via Qatar and Iran etc).
Is there anybody more suicidal than an Lefty Israeli?
If Israel followed the same policies during the Six Day War, Jerusalem would be the capital of the Islamic State right now.
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