Captain Uri Lavie, a company commander in the Golani Brigade briefing his soldiers “ nine months into their military service “ a few minutes before joining the battle against Hizballah terrorists in southern Lebanon ("Ha'aretz, July 27, 2006):
"This is our time to rise to the challenge, put on the helmets and the bullet proof vests and make sure that the northern border is secure.
We shall fulfill any mission in a most effective manner, in face of any challenge.
If we shall not fulfill our mission we shall forfeit the right to exist.
We shall not lose this war, which we did not start.
Our duty is to serve as a defense force of the Jewish People, and to secure the peace of mind of the civilians in northern Israel.
If we shall not do it, no one will do it in our place.
For two thousand years we waited for the establishment of the Jewish State, and we are not going to roll back because a bunch of terrorists assume that they can scare us.
He who cannot defend Liberty does not deserve Liberty.
If we will not be able to fight until our last drop of blood, in order to secure the Liberty of our People on its own soil, our People will not enjoy Liberty.
There is time to talk and there is time to act. At this time, when missiles and Katyushas afflict the North all the way to Haifa, in addition to the two kidnapped soldiers, the ten soldiers killed and the dozens injured, it is time to fight and not to talk. We are the force, which has been chosen to fight, and we shall perform in the most effective manner.
I will be the first one to enter the battle and the last one to come out, and will do everything in my power to get you out alive and well. On Friday, with G-D's help, we will rejoin with our families. However, I cannot do it alone. Once we cross the northern border, you should exercise full alert and full responsibility toward your fellow soldier."
"Israeli reservists or civilians?
Makes no difference as these Hezbollah terror rockets were launched from Lebanon and landed in civilian populated areas. That constitutes a war crime. We are angry in Israel today. Very angry. And Hezbollah and the Lebanese who support them will feel it!"
God speed my Israeli brothers! Mercy is provided by the good guys only. We in free world always maintain this, as we did during WWII. The Japanese were especially horrendous in our treatment of POW's for example, starving, torturing and marching them to death while the Japanese POW's had three square meals a day, cots and buildings to sleep in. The Japanese and Hezbollah are equally fanatical and devious in their actions. Hezbollah, Iran and Syria will pay a heavy price and be destroyed before it's all over I am sure.
We should all cry for innocents killed on both sides, but the world press focuses on Lebanese suffering only! It's disgusting and we in America know better!
The prophets and Christ warned that in the end-times the bad guys team up against the good guys and a final global war is fought killing 1/3 of mankind but the good guys win. Anti-christ comes into power. Whomever or whatever this power is kills without second thought. Hezbollah certainly fits into this kind of description as do other states that sponsor them from Iran, Syria, North Korea all the way to the superpowers such as China and Russia that supply them weapons and money for proxy war.