my rant
ill take this thread to rant on a few things
If you do the math you'll see that someone who was young enough to fight in WW II would either be retired by 1967 or an old officer.
well 1967- 1944 or thereabouts +20 - doesnt amount to much- i dont see your point, its about experience - not brute strenght- experience that can be handed down
this is not just about the 1967 wars- its about all the wars that took place in the region: mosche dayan took part in most of them including the 1967 one although his role on the field was not as much as before.
quite simply- military management according to some might include : POLC
Planning
organising
leading
controlling
Israel did all that- the arabs didnt
eg: blowing up a few airfields as a first move is a great plan...
lets move on to mossad:
With regards to mossad: your right- they are pretty capable in intel gathering, assasinations and kidnappings- so it has a terrorist branch and a state policing/military intel branch.
In 1967 i dont think israel had any satellite intel (unless you can show them to me)- but the USA surely did and thats where they supplied the intel as mossad was a ground based agency.
mossad is reportedly in action in northern iraq atm:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/21/1410218
Mossad apart from its successes is also notorious for :
1) its disregard for national laws, the rule of law and due process and engagement in terrorist acts:
eg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad
In July 1973, Ahmed Bouchiki, an innocent Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, was assassinated while walking with his pregnant wife. He had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group responsible for the Munich massacre, who had been given shelter in Norway. The Mossad agents had used fake Canadian passports, which angered the Canadian government. Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident became known as the Lillehammer affair.
recently- they tried to get into NZ with fake passports as well- some covert op= man get some real passports (the subsequent desecration of jewish graves was uncalled for though- its ALWAYS the innocent people who suffer from mossad's illegal actions).
2) blowing up Synagogues:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/11/Mossad_Turkish_blasts.html
By Margalit Cohen
Sydney, Australia
they did the same in iraq as well:
this is what an iraqi jew wrote:
I write this article for the same reason I wrote my book: to tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors.
http://www.nkusa.org/Historical_Documents/NaeimGiladi.cfm
(theres other stuff there on bombs)
And later blaming it on the arabs/al-qaeda/the plo: (source debatable)
http://www.americanfreepress.net/09...y___Mossa/u_s__army_officers_say___mossa.html
Top U.S. Army analysts believe Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, is "ruthless and cunning," "a wildcard" that "has [the] capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
they also tried to bring al-qaeda in the palestinian-israeli conflict:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html (smh link inside)
(source debatable- ive never used these sites before)
The Mossad arent generally seen to be the good guys as they on many previous attempts have tried to blow up western targets in muslim countries and Jewish places of worship in islamic countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_affair
http://www.vialls.com/transpositions/terror.html (debatable intel)
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just a wrap up- i dont hate jews- ive got two jewish mates to prove it- and one supports israel (we had a 'friendly' debate once)
but not all jews are zionists
as some adopt the following attitude:
i'm an anti-nationalist and a spiritual & cultural zionist.
That's a fascinating formulation, and one I hadn't seen articulated before, but I think I like it. Nationalism is troubling to me for a variety of reasons; when I think about Israel it's generally in spiritual and cultural terms (e.g. what "Jerusalem" has come to mean after centuries of usage in the daily Jewish liturgy) and not in geographical or political ones.
It continues to sadden me that those who criticize Israel, in the Diaspora, are often painted with the anti-Zionist and anti-Semite brush. (I imagine the same happens in Israel, though I wouldn't know from personal experience.) We need people to be sufficiently engaged with the situation (er -- pardon the pun) to approach it critically. Thanks for being one of those people.
Rachel • 08/16/05 07:23pm
http://www.orthodoxanarchist.com/2005/08/on-being-simultaneously-pro-and-anti.php
im against conventional zionism simply because its racist- especially against african jews , asian jews and in some cases arab jews:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/3716/publications_eng/the_bond_of_silence.html
theres different incidences- this was an isolated scandal - but there were in the past plans to have oriental jews cultivate lands taken away from the palestinians and there was even a black panther protest in israel in the 1940s when european jews were favoured over the existing population- now israel's jewry is mainly european as opposed to the old demographics.
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in the end all wars are bad- im against torture or killing innocent people without due process to prove them guilty- the rules dont change in war- innocent means innocent- no one may kill no matter what his race or faith. Against terrorism, again the rules dont change unless we wish to transform ourselves into lowlying savages ready to break both divine and secular laws and trying to achieve what we want.
im not going to glorify wars or terrorist acts ill just leave of with something from this link:
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Demonstrations/2005Oct30London.cfm
You may well ask, how come we Jews are here protesting in support of Palestinians - who many would think of as enemies of the Jews.
The answer, my friends, is that the Palestinian dispute is with the Zionists and not with the Jews. Zionism and Judaism are two completely different and opposing ideas
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let like be like.
if i was against judaism- id oppose it with what i have : islam and because previous jews as mentioned in the Quran were muslims (as they submitted to the will of God and obeyed their prophets) i have nothing against those jews (except the jews mentioned in the OT or the Quran as being rebellious) but i may have issues with present jews if i were to have a talk with them (and these issues will have to be cleared up- i dont know what they are yet)
if i was against israel or zionism= id criticize its policies or its foundation- i dont support any nation in particular- i support whichever nation is doing the right thing in making this world a better place.
:rofl: