Friday 20 June 2014

"Operation Brother's Keeper": The IDF's humanity (video)

As reported here, IDF commander-in-chief Lieutenant-General Binjyamin (Benny) Gantz, on a visit this week to an army base involved in “Operation Brother’s Keeper”, which is searching for the three abducted West Bank Jewish teenage boys,
'told the soldiers that every terror attack is a serious event, but the abduction of three high school students is especially severe, “Beyond the severity of an attack, it has the potential for ramifications that we are not prepared for from a strategic perspective.”
Gantz emphasized that every soldier participating in the operation must feel “As if each one of the boys was a member of his family, a member of his staff and his military company.” '
In this brief footage, Gantz also stresses something else:


See also here

7 comments:

  1. I noticed on SBS tonight they called the boys "missing" and said they had "disappeared". They're no better than PressTV or Russia Today.

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    1. And ABC had a report from Al Jazeera that concentrated solely on the Hamas viewpoint. I knew it was biased when my pinko companion volubly expressed the concern I was inwardly feeling!

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  2. OT EOZ covers a Sizer rant
    http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/labeling-goods-isnt-good-enough-for.html

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  3. Spooner strikes again.
    A great cartoon from today's Age
    http://images.theage.com.au/2014/06/20/5530777/a1-20140620175950663449.jpg

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  4. Thanks. I stopped buying The Age ("The Spencer Street Soviet") ages ago, and am not as familiar with his work as I doubtless ought to be.

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    1. He's worth keeping an eye out for:
      http://images.theage.com.au/2011/04/09/2297082/gal_Spooner9April.jpg

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