Posted on 08/24/2006 5:06:39 PM PDT by andre573
At around 4 a.m. Saturday, Lt. Col. Emanuel Moreno, a senior commander in the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal), was killed in a fierce battle with Hizbullah fighters near Baalbek in the Bekaa valley not far from the Lebanese-Syrian border.
From the details of the commando raid that have filtered into the media, we learned that Moreno and his men were airdropped into the area by helicopter along with their two Hummer vehicles, with the mission of attacking a Hizbullah base in the nearby village of Bodei used by the Iranian-sponsored guerrilla fighters for weapons smuggling.
Iran is now working steadily to replenish Hizbullah's surface to surface and anti-tank missile stocks and augment them with anti-aircraft missiles.
Israel's continued sea and air blockade of Lebanon, which Kofi Annan is pushing the Olmert government to lift, forces Iran to resupply Hizbullah by land through Syria and into the Bekaa valley.
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(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Fascinating! The more I read about Zionism and its history the more I support it. Israel is indeed a light to the nations, like an oasis in the midst of a barren, demon graveyard. I'm not a Jew but I'm certainly happy there is a place of refuge from the recurring AntiSemitism that seems to be a disease that keeps flaring up on the Earth, here and there at various times each century.
I hope Israel uses his full might to destroy its enemies before he is destroyed. It's the only nation that could get away with a tactical nuclear strike without retaliation and without drawing in the communist nuclear powers. Those days are close to ending though with the current rise of antisemitic sentiment cropping up in the western elite.
Israeli hero ping!
Hope everyone opens up the JP link and reads the rest of this story ..
excerpt from page 1 (then goes on page 2,3)
Moreno, 35, was a hero. He was admired and respected by his soldiers and officers. Those who knew him well agree that his most outstanding features were his humility and his Zionism. Moreno lived modestly with his wife Maya and three young children in Moshav Tlamim by Sderot. He never wore his uniform in his community - he wasn't interested in people knowing how senior an officer he was. He was in the IDF to serve his country and his people, not for the glory. He was a loyal son of Jerusalem.
EXACTLY A year before his death, Moreno's humility and dedication to serving his country brought him to perform a different sort of nocturnal mission.
=> Every night last August - until precisely 52 weeks before his death - he snuck into Gush Katif to bring food to his brother David and his family who were besieged along with the rest of the residents of Gush Katif by a force of some 50,000 IDF and police forces. These forces, who outnumbered the forces sent into Lebanon to fight Hizbullah a year later by 20,000, were under orders not to fight Israel's enemies, but to expel loyal, patriotic Israeli citizens from their homes and communities, destroy their homes and communities and abandon their land to Hamas and Fatah control.
David Moreno is a major in reserves in another elite IDF unit. Last year in Neve Dekalim he challenged the IDF to find one soldier who would be capable of throwing him and his family out of their home. Taking David's point and seeking to avoid embarrassment, the senior brass of the IDF beat a steady path to his door, attempting to convince him that he must leave.
==>> Sitting in a modestly furnished, book-lined living room, David repeatedly demanded to be told the strategic rationale of the expulsions. Why were these senior commanders following orders to surrender land to terrorists? Why were they turning 8,500 Jews into refugees in the Land of Israel in order to carry out a mission conceived by a prime minister desperate to avoid a felony indictment on corruption charges from the radical leftist state prosecution? David kept repeating over and over again that this was not the reason he and his four brothers served as combat officers in the IDF. He warned over and over again that expelling the Israelis from Gaza would strengthen Israel's enemies and lead directly to another war.
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"Like Emmanuel and David Moreno and their three older brothers, these soldiers make up the backbone of the IDF's regular combat and Special Forces units. Like Emmanuel Moreno, a disproportionate number of religious Zionist soldiers have died in the past month of war. "
and that's why the delusionary and cowardly left hate the Religious Zionists.
Exactly!
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