Posted on 02/09/2007 12:43:23 PM PST by kronos77
from Christopher Walker, Jerusalem
About 40 Israeli volunteers have been fighting alongside the Serbs as a gesture of gratitude for Serb support for Yugoslav Jews against the Nazis in the Second World War.
The existence of the Israeli fighters - they do not like the term mercenaries - was revealed by Ron Ben Yishai, an Israeli war correspondent who was injured by Kosovo Liberation Army sniper fire this week while reporting from the province for the Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot.
The paper said that all the Israeli fighters had emigrated to the Jewish state from the former Soviet Union and were part of a volunteer unit, the majority of whose members were Russians.
Mr Ben Yishai quoted one of the Israeli volunteers, named only as Valery, who recently returned home after fighting in Kosovo for a month, as saying: "We decided to fight alongside the Serbs as a token of our gratitude for the assistance the Serbs extended to the Jews of Yugoslavia who were persecuted by the Nazis in World War Two."
The Israeli fighter said that another reason that he had joined up was "identification with the Christian Slavs' fight against the Muslims trying to take over Europe".
Diplomatic observers noted that, at an earlier stage of the Yugoslav crisis, many Islamic volunteers - including former members of the Afghan Mujahidin rebels who had fought against the Soviet forces - fought alongside the Bosnian Muslims.
Allow me to restate the question - do you know of any Israelis who fought alongside Mladic's forces at Srebrenica?
That's your opinion and you're free to express it.
That it flies in the face of 7 years worth of Bush Administration Balkans policy is for you to sort out.
Have fun with that.
Hoppy posts here for self justification reasons. To try and make himself feel good about his anti Serb activities in the Balkans. He helped the Muslims, I'm not sure in what way. He was prolly some kind of social worker or NGO type
What exactly is your claim to fame in the Balkans? What did you do there that compels you to post here?
None of this is about me, Dennis, it's about you and your friend's inability to come to grips with the United States treating Serbia like a red-headed stepchild until Serbia straightens up and comes to terms with its actions under Milosevic in the 1990's.
For example, how's that Mladic extradition coming? Do you think that might affect America's policy towards Serbia and subsequently our policy towards Kosovo?
If it's easier for you to personalize the issue through me, rather than facing up to the answers to those questions, then you've also answered the question as to how worthy your opinion is in the first place.
Do you think America wants Mladic extradicted?
Too hard, I know.
Well, he is a very dedicated Dhimmi, you know.
Srebrenica! Squawk! Srebrenica! Squawk! The Serbs deserve to die because of Srebrenica! Squawk!
And all because the Moslem "soldiers" turned and ran for it.
As opposed to Hoppy's Albanian heroes who were too busy forming their own SS unit to support the Nazis.
Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.
Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.
Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.
Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.
Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.
WWII . Amin Al Husseini spent most of the war in Berlin. He was on Hitler's payroll as he lead the Hanzar Division of Muslim SS and played a lead-role in determining the fate of Europe's Jewish community.. From Berlin, Amin Al Husseini helped organize the transfer of Nazi officers into the Middle East
Amin Al Husseini inspecting his Nazi troops, the Hanzar. Here, he is showing a young Muslim recruit how to use his rifle. Amin Al Husseini himself had been an officer in the defeated Ottoman Islamic Empire of World War I.<
Clown --- I thought you spent time in the Balkans "doing stuff" If this is true you sure don't seem proud of it. You are playing coy, why not brag about what you've done there? I'll listen
I doubt you think much, and if this is an indication, when you do, the result is inevitably incorrect.
Clown
You aren't too good at the reading comprehension thing, are you?
Marry me...
:)
How's about we just say he gives them "lip service?"
Yeah, that's right. He's in public relations, kinda.
Lol, only if you don't snore.
darn...
:)
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