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2009-01-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli troops were told to kill themselves to avoid capture

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-27 07:20|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 This is crap. You do not order soldiers to kill themselves because you lack the political will to fight if they are being held hostage. That does not work in so many ways that it makes me sick.

Not only is it going to screw up morale, but it's also going to cause war crimes by soldiers "playing it safe". At the national level, it shows that the Israelis are starting to lose control of themselves.

And once they do lose control, it will be the difference between ethnically cleansing the Paleos by pushing them into Egypt, and mass murdering them.

This is a very, very bad sign.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-01-27 10:04|| 2009-01-27 10:04|| Front Page Top

#2 My uncle & his buddy went from arming P-40s to sitting in a foxhole on Oahu for several days after 7 Dec 1941. They expected to meet Japanese forces face to face. They were quite aware of how the Empire had been treating its prisoners. They both agreed to save their last bullet for themselves.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-01-27 11:44|| 2009-01-27 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 i don't see any reason not too mass murder the paleos, the "civilians" elected their government if thats what you call it and i would rather die than captured tortured and eventually killed anyway by these animals

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-01-27 12:33|| 2009-01-27 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a very, very bad sign

For Arabs and the subhuman scum who supports them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-27 14:37|| 2009-01-27 14:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I didn't think you could be buried in a Jewish cemetary if you killed yourself.

Posted by Beavis 2009-01-27 14:57|| 2009-01-27 14:57|| Front Page Top

#6 You're thinking of Catholics, Beavis.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-01-27 15:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-27 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 My main thought while in the southeast asia war games was I will not be captured. I would miss Army food dearly.

Posted by Xenophon 2009-01-27 21:01|| 2009-01-27 21:01|| Front Page Top

#8 "I didn't think you could be buried in a Jewish cemetary if you killed yourself."

I doubt that's an issue anyway, Beavis, if the paleos get an Israeli soldier's body. There wouldn't be enough left.... >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-27 21:05|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-27 21:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Mitch, that's pretty much the Jewish tradition too. Suicide is the ultimate sacrilege.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-01-27 21:48|| 2009-01-27 21:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I didn't think you could be buried in a Jewish cemetary if you killed yourself.

Except under certain conditions. The rules changed after the Holocaust.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-01-27 21:57|| 2009-01-27 21:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Come to think of it, tw, some cases of suicide are part of Jewish tradition. Masada gives an example of ancient Jews doing exactly what these soldiers are doing. The Chanukah story of Hannah's sons has them committing suicide instead of idolatry. These were long before the Shoah.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-01-27 23:40|| 2009-01-27 23:40|| Front Page Top

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