Soldiers and their nemeses

The U.S. Army and the IDF have many things in common, and one of them is traitors and moonbats.

First, Citizen Smash went undercover at the anti-war rally last weekend, and has four extremely interesting and amusing reports. It’s Smash at his best, writing a first-person record of events. I highly recommend all four parts. The pictures alone are worth it.

Finally clear of the newspaper hawkers and conspiracy mongers, I make my way to the entrance of the ball fields where the ANSWER hordes are assembling. I slip through the outer layers of protesters, and…

…the field is empty. A hollow shell. Like a fried mozzarella stick, where all the cheese has leaked out. I hear the voice of Johnny Rotten snarling in my head, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”

In a careful bit of stage management, the ANSWER organizers have lined up many of their people, armed with their distinctive yellow signs, along the fences opposite the counter-protesters. It creates the impression of a much larger crowd, but the bulk of the mob is crammed into the southern apex of the triangular field, closest to the Lincoln Memorial (I would later learn that CJ Grisham had captured audio of the plea from ANSWER for everyone to gather along the south end).

Part 1: Marching with Moonbats
Part 2: Part II: Eagles Up!
Part 3: Part III: Infiltration
Part 4: Part IV: A Tsunami of Stupid

Next, over at Kesher Talk, Judith Weiss runs a letter from over 1100 IDF soldiers protesting the members of “Breaking the Silence,” which purports to portray the IDF as brutal, abusive occupiers. This one’s a Read-in-full recommendation as well. Pay special attention the links: No post by Judith is complete without half a ton of backup information. Before she was a blogger, she was one of my best sources of information. No, I think she was the best. How that woman finds time to do anything but read I can’t tell you.

We have served with our lives to protect our country, the State of Israel, to protect the rights of our people to be safe—the Druze, the Israeli Arabs, the Bedouin, Christians, Muslims and Jews–and to protect the humanistic ethics we learned from our parents and forebears. Yet your movement tries to disgrace us before the world.

So this is our reply to you—our signatures to show that you, a handful of misguided individuals, are not telling the real story, that you magnify the few exceptions to our standard behavior and miss the total picture which is far greater than your collective experiences and imaginations. We are replying to your misguided words with far more than the 140 politically-motivated academics who signed your letter. We, the people of this land, come to you out of the great tapestry that is Israel—young soldiers, reservists in their thirties and forties, who are people of color, Christians, Arabs and Druze—who believe that Israel has a right to live in peace and security. We come from across the political spectrum but all of us care deeply and have lost and wept and yearned for a peace that we have tried to usher in with dignity, respect and honesty.

For us and for our children, we ask you to cease your destructive and misleading activities.

Read it all.