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2024-10-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

In first fatalities of Lebanon ground op, 8 IDF soldiers killed in battles with Hezbollah

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-03 10:20|| 2024-10-03 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 A Silver Platter
By Natan Alterman
And the land grows still, the red eye of the sky slowly dimming over smoking
frontiers
As the nation arises,
Torn at heart but breathing,
To receive its miracle, the only miracle
As the ceremony draws near,
It will rise, standing erect in the moonlight in terror and joy
When across from it will step out a youth and a lass and slowly march toward
the nation
Dressed in battle gear, dirty,
Shoes heavy with grime, they ascend the path quietly
To change garb, to wipe their brow
They have not yet found time.
Still bone weary from days and from nights in the field
Full of endless fatigue and unrested,
Yet the dew of their youth.
Is still seen on their head
Thus they stand at attention, giving no sign of life or death
Then a nation in tears and amazement will ask: "Who are you?"
And they will answer quietly,
"We Are the silver platter on which the Jewish state was given."
Thus they will say and fall back in shadows
And the rest will be told
In the chronicles of Israel

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-03 14:12|| 2024-10-03 14:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, Grom. I should have read that when we were doing modern Israeli literature in my very Zionist Hebrew school in the later 1970s, but I have no memory of it.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-03 15:50|| 2024-10-03 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 The blood of these brave you men is on the hands of Washington Politicians. This Iran bullshit should have been handled decades ago.

Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Modi’in.
Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Eli.
Cpt. Itai Ariel Giat, 23, of the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit, from Shoham.
Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kohav Yair.
Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Beit Aryeh.
Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kiryat Ata.
Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Jerusalem.
Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Nes Tziona.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-03 15:52|| 2024-10-03 15:52|| Front Page Top

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