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September 18th, 2006

Keeping Watch

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Aussie Dave

What are our intrepid UN peacekeepers up to today?

They’re practicing their skills in observing and taking photos.

Tomorrow they begin honing their renowned skills in videotaping.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.

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6 Responses to “Keeping Watch”

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    I wonder when the pictures of UNIFIL joint maneuvers with Hizb’Allah will show up.
    A larger UN presence in South Lebanon - I feel really sorry for young Lebanese girls.

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    Do you know what is the hardest part of French Military Training?

    Learning to say “I surrender” in 7 languages.

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    If it wasn’t for international pressure you would have gone all out on lebanon and now it would be in complete ruins and you would have a full scale war to deal with as the region beomes more destabilised your problems would only become worse. What’s funny is Israel doesn’t dictate the direction of it’s own conflicts America does, america pay’s for half your country

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    It’s funny how, even with facts, you still have an incomplete picture of the region.

    If it wasn’t for international pressure they would have their soldier back. Hizb, as an organization, would be disarmed and the March 14 forces in Lebanon would have an easier time of stabilizing their country.

    As for American paying for half their country - at least they know what to do with the money we give them (1.6 billion last year). All the pallies did with the 1 billion was build more rockets and arm more terrorists. Did you not notice that while thousands of gov’t workers went unpaid, hospitals ran short of supplies and families starved there was no shortage of armed men running around in mercedes firing off rockets at Israel?

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    USA “pay’s” (are you a grocerer?) a tiny percentage of Israel’s GDP (1.6 billion vs 154.5 billion US$).

    Had the international community of dhimmis not tried to prevent Israel from defending itself, Israel would have crushed Hizballah and set Lebanon free from Syria and Iran.

    Warning:

    Consuming too much anti-semitic bullshit causes brain damage.

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    still from the spanish soldier pictures:

    So you stopped the war cause an old french men cried for peace out of eurabia??

    Then you are our slaves?? We can decide when the IDF starts and stops fighting?? That is funny what else are you doing for eurabia if the old french men cries loud?? Jumping around and dress in pink like girls? And if we think that we are slaves from the arabs…

    Getting serious, you don’t think that eurabia would put sanctions against your country?? No important politician from the EU told something like this. Of course we think due to our hard wars in the past, that war is only the last answer and not the first. At my work for example we decided a new coperation with Haifa technolgy center in the end days of the war and Isreal pays nothing and we pay around 150k euros…

    And to the weapons: For example the submarine deal with germany… you pay only 2/3 of the cost, the rest of it it payed by german tax payer (about 333 million euro)!! And the first two of those were completly given from germany to Israel a few years ago! Isn’t this the so important submarine, that allows you the second stike, that one guy in the top mentions so proudly??

    Germany only shares that submarine with fuel cell to israel and that in time that you tell me that you stoped the war cause of us??

    Another thing: The contract to that submarine deal was signed as you were in war with hisbolla, although the german goverment is not allowd by his law to sell weapons to another country that is in a not really defined war or might use those wapons to start a war. So stop thinking that whole europe is doing something against your so tough IDF guys and that it is our fault, that you didn’ t win proberly. Your army was just to hesitating (may be cause they weren’t allowed as they want) and your politicians were just too afraid to fight proberly. So just do not think that you are only well equiped cause of yourself?? And I don’t wanna start talking about your air-plains…

    In my opinion your are of course a real good army and well trained and with a lot of experience, but still as one of you told the hisbollah are one of the best in ME and this is still not an real challenge.. no tanks no plains not a real logistic … Even the military from countrys like netherland would win against them and the netherland army is really not so well on. And 34 days is a long time for fighting…. In the past you were better and your civilian people were not a month under attack from rockets… What is up with your strong army?

    And with the problems of the muslims in europe, you are certainly right, that we have to think about what we do with that problem, that gets bigger. In the last 3 years a lot has changed already in europe. And certainly the last bombings and tries to bomb and of course the threats against the pope someting will change more and more. But I think we will not only fight with wapons and restrictions against one ethic group. That doesn’t work properly like we can see in Israel.

    In your case I wouldn’t be so arogant against european armys. I have never had contact to IDF solders during my duty, but a lot to US soldiers, that some guys here think that they are also so strong , cause I served in a multinational force and when I see how easiliy they fighted against the irak people in the first month ( with european gun barrels in their tanks, that allowed them to soot the double range of the iraks one). I know that many europeans would also look really good against those guys. even if they fight more with the mind and technics then with tonnes of equipent like us… and then they allways loose or stop before the real end. (since world war 2 and now irak is going to be the same shit again)

    I would’t think that the whole world is against you and dominated by arabs. You have some friends out there and belive me they are more important for your life then you like to admit, that is why you should make too much fun of their soldiers, who came there cause your politicains weren’t able to finish the war probably.

    Have you been to europe? Did you meet soldiers from europe personaly? Did you went on maneuver with them?

    And Oriana Fallici??she was a good women… but not the last one.

    Masada what ever it might be important for you IDF soldiers, but for nobody else outside Israel.

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