Some videos of the IDF in action. First up: IDF Dave sends this video of the end of a patrol near Bethlehem in 2002, at the height of the second intifada. Here, the soldiers meet a group of Palestinian children. But strangely, violence does not ensue. In fact, the children act like children everywhere, begging IDF Dave to take their picture on his digital camera, and then crowding around to look at the picture.
They have to be taught to hate. It’s not an instinct.
Next up, a slickly-produced video of the IDF to the tune of Mark Knopfler’s “Brothers in Arms.”
Going through the YouTube IDF videos (ignoring the ISM lies, because it’s amazing how the “peaceful” protesters never do anything, but the wicked IDF suddenly starts shooting and beating them—every single time!), it made me feel—worried. Because spring is here, and the war isn’t finished. Syria and Hamas are both digging bunkers and putting rockets along the Israeli borders. The next war is still, I think, inevitable. Because the enemy thinks that Israel blinked. Because the enemy thinks that Israel is defeatable.
The good news on that front is the IDF is taking a long, hard look at what went wrong, and working to fix it. The bad news is it can’t be done in a day.
The other factor, however, is—well, let Golda Meir tell you.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative.
Yes.