Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
UAE cancels participation in Israeli flyover amid Arab condemnation of Temple Mount riots By Christine Douglass-Williams
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Robert Spencer : Now, āEmirati airline Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has canceled its
participation in Israelās Independence Day flyover this year, amid Arab
condemnation of Temple Mount and Old City violenceā¦.UAEās participation
in the flyover had been intended to hight the increased cooperation
between the two countries, which had normalized ties in 2020 under the
US-brokered Abraham Accords.ā
UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem bint Ebrahim
Al Hashimy also openly rejects Jerusalem as Israelās capital and wants
to see a return to pre-1967 borders, a.k.a. the āAuschwitz borders.ā Al Hashimy:
spoke of the need to resume a
peace process for the āestablishment of an independent Palestinian state
on the 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital in accordance
with legitimate international resolutions and the Arab Peace
Initiative.ā
Meanwhile, a notorious antisemite, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is churning the propaganda mill, saying that the Temple Mount violence is caused by āradical Israelisā and Israeli security forces.
āUAE cancels participation in Israeli flyover due to Temple Mount riots,ā Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2022:
Emirati airline Wizz Air Abu Dhabi
has canceled its participation in Israelās Independence Day flyover
this year, amid Arab condemnation of Temple Mount and Old City violence,
according to the Israel Pilotās Association.
It tweeted that it
had āreceived a message today from #WizzairAbuDhabi that it will not be
able to participate in the Independence Day flight in Israel.
āThe
announcement was made shortly after the announcement of the summoning
of the Israeli ambassador to Abu Dhabi for a conversation at the Foreign
Ministry in the United Arab Emirates.
āWe are sorry for this decision,ā it explained.
Etihad
Airways was also thought to have been slated to participate in the
flyover, but the airline agency issued a statement saying that āas the
national airline of the UAE, Etihad Airways does not participate in
official ceremonies of foreign nations. Etihad can confirm that it is
not and was not ever scheduled to participate in a flyover ceremony with
Israel.ā
UAEās participation in the flyover had been intended to
hight the increased cooperation between the two countries, which had
normalized ties in 2020 under the US-brokered Abraham Accordsā¦.
