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Bomb Sniffing Pigs!
Geva Zion, a 26 year old veteran of the I.D.F. K-9 unit has developed an effective system to detect Arab terrorists and bombs. Zion is training wild boars to find mines and bombs. Zion claims that his 2 new pigs Soda and Chaziza can track explosives quicker and better than any dog or electronic detection device, according to Yediot Ahronot, September 30, 03.
Will wonders never cease?
I dunno... Is that kosher?
The Jewish Legion, a volunteer organization that helps secure towns in Israel with the help of specially trained K-9s is looking in to the possibility of contracting Geva Zion to help create a new Pig unit. Ezra Stein, director of public relations for the Jewish Legion conceded that the Jewish Legion is seeking Rabbinic advice.
Voice of Judea Commentary:
Moshiach [The Messiah] must be coming very soon. The Israelis have now invented a bomb detection pig? What next? Israel will succeed in inventing a peace loving Palestinian? Who knows, what the Jews couldn’t do, maybe the pigs can do.

What halachic justification could the Jewish Legion find to raise pigs in the Holy Land?
(Good question. However, the Torah only says that Jews are not supposed to EAT them.)
While saving lives is the number one mitzvah what will the Arabs say, and what will the liberal Israeli left have to say about offending Islamic sensitivity to pigs?
(Whatever the hell the liberals say, just point to the first part of this sentence and ask how serious they are. Whatever the hell the terrorists say, just shoot them.)
One thing is for sure Arab terrorists aint gonna appreciate getting sniffed out by wild pigs.
(They don’t appreciate dogs either, but that hasn’t stopped the formation of K-9 units.)
It would be truly a historic chain of events if the secular pig-raising Lahav Kibbutz joins hands with Yesha settlements to fight off Arab terrorists with pigs under the auspices of the Jewish Legion.
I believe Yesha settlements are references to settlements of Messianic Jews, who wouldn’t have talmudic problems handling pigs. They’re considered outside the pale of Orthodox Judaism for their belief in the New Testament, so the reference to "historic chain of events" is understated. I tried to imagine something similar happening here in the US, and got a picture of the Nazis, the KKK, The Black Caucus, NOW, the Christian Coalition, the Rainbow Coalition, NAACP, and MECHA getting together on a stage, holding hands, and agreeing on something. I couldn’t exactly figure out what it was, since my imagination immediately suffered a catastrophic failure just before I caught what it was...

Maybe it's just that I lack the milk of human kindness or some sort of liberal ethos, but when people try their very best to kill me, I don't give a rat's rectum about offending their sensitivities. My poor little one cylinder mind can't grasp the concept...

Posted by: Ptah 2003-10-03
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