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Of The 45,000 British Soldiers Fighting Isreal's Proxy War; 15 Are Jewish

Glenn | 23.03.2003 00:09

For Anti Semites who think that this war is really a proxy war for Israel, and that as a result of Bush's Lukid advisors, Wolfowitz and Perle, Brits are going to die for Sharon, it should give pause to know that there ARE Jewish soldiers fighting in the British force.
Of the 45,000 British forces, 15 are Jewish.

U.K. lets Jewish soldiers in Gulf erase religion
from dog-tags

By Sharon Sadeh, Haaretz Correspondent

LONDON - The British Army has allowed its Jewish soldiers involved in the war in Iraq to erase mention of their religion on their dog-tags, fearing they would be executed if they were captured. There are some 15 Jewish soldiers among the 45,000 British fighters currently in action in the U.S.-led campaign.

The British Ministry of Defense made the decision following concerns expressed by Jewish community leaders in Britain. The ministry added that kosher rations had been provided to those Jewish soldiers who requested them.

During the 1991 Gulf War, the Iraqis would beat and parade prisoners in front of the television cameras, and the British military fears that Jewish prisoners would come in for a worse fate.

The British dog-tags list the soldier's name, rank, identity number and religion, with the latter intended to facilitate proper burial in the event that the body of the soldier cannot be brought home.

On Friday, Britain's chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, published a special prayer for the safety of the soldiers in Iraq. The prayer was to be recited in all synagogues over the Sabbath.

Glenn

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23.03.2003 02:04

And there are only 23 Mormons, 2 Zoroastrians, and no Satanists at all. So, they must all be in league together, eh mate? :-)

spanner

fuck off yer Goebbels propaganda

23.03.2003 02:30

"haarwtz"?
where is the link ?

For sure, this article is a forgery, something like updated "Protocols".

""Of the 45,000 British forces, 15 are Jewish."" ??
Bullshit.
How do you couted that ?

Are you sure
that all the jews should have a
big "J" in their ID and David Star on their clothes, as it was during the ww2 ?

Have you checked the dicks of all 45.000 britons ? - (though the muslims are circumcised too and they are 20
times more than jews in UK.). Moreover many secularised jews are not circumcised at all.

How many of them 45.000 ASSIMILATED and secularised jews, who didn't belong to any jewish community and didn't tell to anyone that they are "jews" ?? Eh ?

Tell me your secret, HOW do you recognize the "jews" ?
Or maybe you made some special blood proof and "sciencic" race-biological investigation as it was practized by the nazis in Germany in 30-s ?

Or maybe your point is positive :>- only 15 jews of the 45.000 soldiers ? Wow !
they may be pacifists as they didn't want go to army ?

OK, what is your point ?
In 30-s Germany Hitler said " all the wars are jews fault",

today
warmongers (krypto "peace lovers") says the same.

foreighn baba

The Missing Link

23.03.2003 05:09

What's the point? Well, if you believe, as I do, that this is a proxy war for Israel, pushed by the Jewish lobby, then you'd think that at least there should be proper representation of Jews in the military. And if you don't believe that this is a proxy war for Israel, you might still think this. I do. Who's supposed to do the fighting and the dying, and why?

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=275621

Devon

Glen

23.03.2003 13:45

Glenn is well known on here. He usually uses lots of names. His posts are all the same. The Jews control the world. The Jews control the Media. Glen is the type of person, when Saddam gassed and exterminated the Kurds, to Glen thats no big deal, because it doesn't fit his propaganda.

Joe

OK, Smear Me, Now back to the facts.

23.03.2003 14:41

OK smear me. Put words in my mouth, fine.

Now what about the facts?

What about 15 Jewish soldiers out of 45,000?

Glenn

Israeli firsters your time has come to an end

23.03.2003 21:23

Joe is a naZionist who uses the old trick of smearing others with anti-semitism when they question the role of Zionism in the Islam - US conflict. You bastard, we know who are Perle and Wolfowitz and the AIPAC. And the Israel-First congressmen. They are a shame for the jewish people and bloody criminals who control the US policy for the benefit of Israel. Lots of US taxpayers money go exclusively to Israel each year.

Glen was just making a crucial point: Why should US and UK young guys die for Ariel Sharon and his gang of genicidal Zionists??.

Freedom for Palestina.
Send to trial all Israeli war criminals

Baruj

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