The following meme has been floating around the interwebs, disseminated by the dregs of social media (hat tip: Spotlighting SA).
https://www.facebook.com/257654231023876/photos/a.257660834356549.56099.257654231023876/809240735865220/?type=3&theater
https://twitter.com/fascaso/status/657872155460411392
Umm no.
That is clearly former IDF Chief of General Staff Benn Gantz.
It looks like this story from the antisemitic Veterans Today site – written by their “Damascus Beaureau Chief” Nahed Al-Husaini (clearly a trustworthy, objective reporter) – may be the source.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/19/breaking-israeli-general-commanding-isis-captured-in-iraq/
Except whoever created the meme did not get the memo.
As for “Yussi Elon Shahak”, he does not exist. Google his name. The only references to this high-ranking officer in the IDF are to antisemitic and loony tune sites.
Once again, the antisemites and Jew haters lie. Because truth (and justice) certainly is not on their side.
Jew-hatred and mongering paranoid stupidity galore. Goebbels would be proud of these dreks.
Yussi Elon Shahak
Any irony here that ‘his’ last name, backwards, (almost) means straw?
as in strawman?
exactly!
kash
The us social security number is 9 digits. Maybe the Indian and chinese id numbers are bigger than 9 digits. 9 digits means you can do id’s for 99 billion, plus a check digit. I doubt the IDF has a need to ID number for 99 billion. That is a beyond insane id number. with an Id # that large you can have an ID number for every sentent life form in the milky way and the closest 1500 galaxies.
Although I agree with the rest of what you say, I think the maximum is 1 billion, not 99 billion. Here’s a link to the explanation: http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.02/chris1.html
A very thorough and amusing Fisking in the Times of Israel:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/benny-gantz-wasnt-captured-by-iraqi-forces/