Posted on 08/04/2006 7:39:05 AM PDT by bobsunshine
So we are not the jew eating satans anymore, if they need some people to stand between hisbollah and them ?
Talk about your irony...
Israel has enjoyed cordial relations with Germany for almost 60 years and has always welcomed German tourists, students and businessmen.
It is precisely because Israel has such trust in Germany as an ally and friend that it is suggesting that German peacekeepers get involved in the reconstruction of Lebanon - probably because so many countries that supply large numbers of peacekeepers, like Nigeria and Pakistan, cannot be trusted to send fairminded personnel.
This is a small step the german people can take to make up for what their ancestors did 65 yrs ago.
The German National Socialist Labor Party chapter of history taught the (sane part of) world that even otherwise normal, rational, cultured, and educated societies can be swept up into insanity given appropriate circumstances and criminal political leadership. I wouldn't take it too personally, quite the contrary, it's complimentary if you read between the lines.
Being a WWII buff and having a father that saw extensive combat from the beginning to the end of the war, three of my weirdest experiences were
1. Hearing German accents from all the black hats during jump week in 1972.
2. Getting on a Luftwaffe plane in Germany with German paratroopers,when I was getting my German wings.
3. Touring a Japanese destroyer that was visiting San Diego.
Germans are better than the French if you had to choose.
Fuhrer, Befiehl, Wir Folgen
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
Funny that there's always more people around allowing you to make something good on them then people wanting to make something good on you.
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Theyve taken plenty of steps, small and big, including supplying all of Israels submarine fleet for almost free.
Well, sure, as has been shown, Israel can. They've simply learned from the past. The last occupation was very costly and they're smart not to want to try again. In any case, lasting peace requires the commitment of the Lebanese government and they may come more easily with German troops rather than Israeli.
I live in a town that has one of the biggest jewish communities in germany - and I am proud that we can live together and they like it here although we have a lot of shiites in this town either. We just finished celebrating the new synagogue.
So, no I am not against german military guarding the innocent people of haifa.
What I cannot stand are the people generously allowing us to make something good or demanding that we do something to deminish our guilt. There's been a lot of this "cash in the holocaust" talk.
Whenever there's military aid to israel involved some israeli smart a. turns up and allowes us to make something good because of the holocaust. Hard not to puke in this case.
I don't want to make something good for my grandfathers neighbour - and god knows I don't have to.
I want our society to protect those who love peace and freedom and apfelstrudel. No matter what believe they share.
If needs must and all that, then it shall be done with a G 36 if submarines and budgets for joined weapons research projects are not enough - like in this case.
Actually I get the impression we are running into a global overstretch regarding the WOT - and that means all of us.
Well, you guys do still owe them.
And Munich didn't help things...
Why not, indeed? The West could use a few more active partners.
Wow, if we're getting overstretched already, we might as well not fight, it's a long way from over, and why lose anymore of our fine military men is we're just going to quit. Maybe we can just defend America, and hell with the rest of the world? Y'all can just defend Germany, k?
Seems to me that expanding military is a good way to reduce unemployment.
What a DUMB AND SILLY LINE FOR THIS PICTURE OF ROMMEL! Rommel was NOT someone who blindly followed Hitler! In fact, he was forced to committ suicide because he was opposed to Hitler. Rommel refused to shoot allied POW, and he also had connections to the military resistance that lead to the (failed) assassination of Hitler on July 20th 1944. Every other General Field Marshall can be called a whatever, but not Rommel.
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