'Hezbollah aren't suckers, they know how to fight. You're scared...

[Purveyor]

AT FIRST light they filtered from the undergrowth, camouflaged, laden with captured hunting rifles and crested Lebanese scimitars, and high-fiving with relief at still being alive. After nearly a week of vicious ditch-to-ditch fighting with Hezbollah fighters in the village of Taibeh, hundreds of exhausted Israeli soldiers slipped back across the border early yesterday after the hardest fighting they had ever experienced.

As they trudged across the brow of a hill in broken single file they were indistinguishable in their battle fatigues and green face paint — some even black out their teeth in Hezbollahland — and all were drunk on adrenalin. “I was hoping to go in and kill Hezbollonim. I killed three,” one shouted as he embraced colleagues from the Nahal Brigade.

As soon as they reached the outskirts of an Israeli hilltop town, which cannot be named for security reasons, they stopped and cleared their M16 automatic rifles in unison — the last task before they could relax. Some then reached inside their huge battlepacks for their mobile phones to call families and girlfriends. Others collapsed with exhaustion, washing away their fear with bottles of cola and lungfuls of cigarette smoke. A few grabbed newspapers to find out how their war was going. “What is happening in other places? What is happening in Gaza?” one asked The Times.

As soon as they reached the outskirts of an Israeli hilltop town, which cannot be named for security reasons, they stopped and cleared their M16 automatic rifles in unison — the last task before they could relax. Some then reached inside their huge battlepacks for their mobile phones to call families and girlfriends. Others collapsed with exhaustion, washing away their fear with bottles of cola and lungfuls of cigarette smoke. A few grabbed newspapers to find out how their war was going. “What is happening in other places? What is happening in Gaza?” one asked The Times.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2299682,00.html

[AlamoDemoc]

1. reporter forgets to ask if these men lost comrade....timesonline my ass

[breakaleg]

2. the Israeli solders appear so proud of themselves

[LiberalPartisan]

3. They should be

And have every reason to be.

[breakaleg]

5. it's not often you see someone taking pleasure in killing nor someone

saying they have every right to be.

So much for the reluctant warriors...

[KoKo]

4. They could push to change the rules on terrorists killings like Rummy &

and AbuGonzales did here in the US. And, our P-Resident has said many times that we are fighting Terrorists and so the Geneva Conventions do NOT apply. "This is different they said." Like the Israeli soldiers fighting in an "Army where as they said..they have to follow fules...whereas the terrorists don't..." It would seem that the rules simply need to be changed. :shrug:

Snip from last paragraphs of the article:


But others, chastened by their experiences north of the border, were less sure. “It’s a lose-lose situation,” said one. “They’re a bunch of terrorists. We are an army. We can never beat them completely because we have to obey certain rules. They operate from within civilian populations, and can do whatever they like. They don’t give a shit about these things.

“So it doesn’t matter if we are there for another couple of days or two weeks. But what is very important is that this is a just war on our part. Because they are a bunch of f***ing terrorists.