Syria is mobilizing for war. Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister with 3% approval rating, can’t find good reasons to hold on to the Golan and is preparing to surrender it.
On the odd chance that Prince Ehud reads this Blog, here are a few good reasons.
In 1973, in the Valley of Tears hundreds of Syrian tanks launched a surprise nighttime attack on a ridge defended by a few tanks of the Oz brigade. The invaders came prepared. They had night vision; the Israelis did not. The defensive line collapsed and the Syrians penetrated deep into the Israeli formations. The Israeli commander reported that he was amazed at how bravely and skillfully the Syrians fought. He realized that he was facing annihilation and there was no immediate help coming. A strange calm came over him as he thought, “I am stronger than they are; I am braver than they are”. He communicated to the other tanks commanders, “I’m moving back to my original position; we must hold the original line; everybody who can, move up with me!”
And they all moved up. The Syrians in the valley below were surprised to see the line still holding. When a tank crew reported that they were out of ammo, the commander responded, “They don’t know that; I need you to stand there and look like you are ready to fight.”
The commander tells how, during the night fighting, he noticed a tank with its taillight turned on standing next to him. He ordered his tank crews to turn off all lights. They all responded that they had no lights turned on. He repeated the request and got the same answer. In a flash the truth dawned on him. He held his breath and prayed that he was guessing right. He turned the turret and from a distance of a few meters (yards) blew up the Syrian tank. Many heroes fell that day. With their blood they paid for the Golan.
Here is one Syrian tank that climbed the ridge and never left.
A memorial for those who fell stands on the current border with Syria.
Here is a close up.
And here is a plaque just outside the gate of the memorial. We doubt that Olmert gets it, but every freedom loving person in the West must.
The memorial plaque reads:
Against hundreds of tanks
They bravely stood
They knew that only with their bodies
They could defend
The villages of the Galil and the Golan
The Nation will not forget
Its brave heroes
And deeds of the sons
Will be enshrined for all generations
They fell but not in vain
Blessed be their memory
How sad it is that the Nation has forgotten and if Olmert surrenders the Golan, it will have all been in vain.
Israel paid for the Golan with the only possible currency – the blood of its children. Just as blood bought America for the Europeans, and Europe for the Teutonic tribes, and 57 Muslim nations for Islam.
