Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
AP Pretends It Didn’t Know It Was Sharing a Building With Hamas May 16, 2021 4:30 pm By Daniel Greenfield
Monday, May 17, 2021
Jihad Watch : You can absolutely trust the AP’s coverage of Israel.
After an airstrike struck a building with terrorist tenants that
included Hamas and Al Jazeera, controlled by Qatar, a backer of Hamas,
the main story in the media was about… the media. Specifically the AP’s presence in the same building.
“We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target
and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news
organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau
and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building
would be hit,” the AP’s statement says.
And the AP is complaining about what? Israel warned it that the
building was a target. AP chose to share a building with Hamas and
pretend not to know about it. “This strike is an incredibly disturbing development. We narrowly
avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists and freelancers
were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in
time,” the AP complains.
Except that it was warned and was able to evacuate the building. So the pretense that it was ever at risk is nonsense. Finally, the AP claims “We have had no indication Hamas was in the
building or active in the building. This is something we actively check
to the best of our ability.”
The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch
right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians
nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about
Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas.
(This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau
and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also
happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would
film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an
official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in,
helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying.
The AP claimed that its interactions with Hamas terrorists isn’t news.
Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants
entered the AP’s Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain
about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said
that Hamas claimed that the men “did not represent the group.” The AP
“does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or
governments,” he wrote. “These incidents are part of the challenge of
getting out the news—and not themselves news.”
Interactions with the IDF however are always news.
The AP offers us two options
1. It’s incompetent and didn’t know it was sharing a building with Hamas
2. It knew it was sharing a building with Hamas
Notably, the AP isn’t really offering a denial. It’s demanding that Israel prove Hamas was there.
Bonus question: Were any of the AP’s freelancers affiliated with Hamas?
