A letter from a soldier in the IDF--Israel Defense Forces---simply
and
eloquently addresses media lies and bias in reports about Israel.
FROM MOSHE X, IDF HERO:
I am Moshe, a 19 year old soldier in the IDF and I was given
an army
furlough for my Sabbath. I would rather not give you
my last name as
I serve in a special unit in the IDF that is sometimes called
on to
find terrorists. My best friend's younger sister was
killed in the
Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem by what you guys called a Palestinian
'militant.'
I just got home for Sabbath and I am checking my email and
surfing the
news on the internet. On Wednesday night, Nov. 14,
my unit received
orders to enter Khan Yhunis,in the Gaza Strip area.
Khan Yhunis
sounds like Cannes but does not show new movies in a festival.
For
weeks and months,the PLO have been sending mortars, RPG,
and other
incendiary devices into Jewish areas in the Gush Katif and
Gaza areas
from Khan Yhunis.
The PLO, according to my studies of Oslo, are not supposed
to have
these types of weapons. When I was in junior high school,
my late
Prime Minister Rabin gave guns to the PLO to police their
newly
received territories. Mortars, RPG, anti tank missiles,
and firebombs
were not part of the gift package from Israel to the PLO
in Oslo.
I noticed on the internet today that you are all reporting
in
yesterday's news that "Israeli soldiers entered Palestinian
cities and
killed Palestinians, knocked down buildings, and destroyed
some
schools." In addition, I am reading in the YAHOO and
REUTERS news that
these soldiers destroyed vineyards and other areas of 'commerce'
in
Gaza.
When I grew up in Tel Aviv, my parents who immigrated from London,
always
taught me not to lie or make up stories. Once I played hookey
from school
and I told my father that I was at a friend's house. In reality,
I was at
a movie theater with a girlfriend watching all the movies in each
theater.
Boy, did I get into trouble, not for playing hookey, but for lying.
Let me share with you what really happened on Wednesday night,
Nov. 14
when we entered Khan Yhunis. It is so far from the
lies of your media
and the reporters who make up the stories as they receive
the weekly
envelopes from the PLO terrorists' media liaisons.
At 1AM,the lead tanks began to enter the perimeter of Khan
Yhunis.
The IAF gave us air cover with their helicopters, while we
infantry in
our special forces (you know special forces like in Kabul),
started to
split up in groups of 4 IDF soldiers per section.
The PLO who had been firing mortars on the Jewish civilians
who live
nearby were still reloading their mortars when we surprised
them. We
shouted in Arabic to stop and of course they did not stop
the mortar
loading process. We fired and killed the two loaders
and injured the
other three PLO terrorists.
We continued to approach this large building in an open area.
Our
intelligence had told us a few hours earlier that this building
contained a storage of mortars, RPG, and anti tank missiles.
My
commander, Duvduv,ordered us to surround the building while
the
helicopters above began firing their missiles to keep away
the PLO
defenders.
I was the first to open the door of this building in
Khan Yhunis. At
2 AM we stormed the building and arrested about 14 PLO terrorists
who
did not even fire one shot in their surrender.
We radioed in for our empty IDF trucks to enter Khan Yhunis
and remove
the contents of the building. We counted 133 mortars,
60RPG, and 43
antitank missiles. In addition, we confiscated boxes
and boxes of
nails, the type that are used in the suicidal bombers' packages.
(Like
the nails that exploded in Sbarro and blew up my friend's
sister in
August 2001.)
We continued sweeping and searching Khan Yhunis when at 3
15AM ,we
encountered gunfire from the local school building's upper
floor. We
knew that the school children were not in school at 3 15AM,
so it had
to be more bad guys.
My unit began firing back and killed another 2 'school
teachers' (YAHOO
language). I think that YAHOO and REUTERS lied and that the
two who were
killed at 3 15 AM were terrorists without teacher certification!
The incursion(as BBC labels it), was complete by 8AM.
We had knocked
down a storage facility with arms, we had captured some terrorists,we
had killed some, and we have all this newly acquired ammunition
which
Mr. Rabin did not give to the PLO in 1994. We
had worked a full 8
hour day.
You guys send your reporters to film and make up stories like
fairy
tales. The vineyards that we destroyed were venues
for the PLO
sharpshooters which George Tenet's CIA trained to shoot Jews.
You
know George was so busy with his Middle East plan that he
forgot that
the CIA was successful in its sniper schools in Virginia.
The
vineyards don't exist anymore in Khan Yhunis because of our
terrible
action that night.
The more I try to explain to you what really happened that
night, the
more you will appear to be pathological liars and media distortionists
par excellence, so what the heck... I tried.
I have to get some rest and do laundry before the Sabbath.
I have to
be back at my base near Gaza on Sunday morning at 8AM when
I am sure
that we in the IDF will have to find more mortar firing
sources, destroy more vineyards, schools, and discover more
non Rabin
supplied ammo.
Keep up the biased and anti Israel media. I know
that is your
parnasa (income). It may be your parnasa, but
Israel is my life and
Israel and I will be here long after cable disappears.
Moshe_______