The White House did not deny rumors that President Barack Hussein Obama will officially revert to Islam just prior to his second imaculation. In Egypt, the President recited fictitious achievements of Islam, like a seasoned Islamist. Every sentence contained a lie, a self-contradiction or both. Muslims call this takiyya, lying to benefit Islam. His polygamist father would have been proud. His living Kenyan relatives, including children his father had with wife number one, three and four, are ecstatic. Will Obama’s second swearing-in be on John Quincy Adam’s Koran?

What did John Quincy think after reading the Koran? Did he agree with Obama’s lies? Read more >

Welcome Lizards. Little Green Footballs has linked to our site bumping our traffic up by orders of magnitude. Thank you, Charles! EU Referendum, our favorite UK Blog, also linked to Preparing for War Circa 1967, thank you! By popular demand, here is an encore pictorial essay on the Six Day War.

The Wailing Wall a couple of days after we liberated Jerusalem. Read more >

On June 8, 1967, exactly 40 years ago, I entered Old Jerusalem. Like the other soldiers around me, I had a sense of the monumental significance of the unfolding events. 2000 years of longing had just been satisfied. Raised on a secular social democratic diet, we nonetheless studied the bible and Jewish history in school, as was mandatory in Israel at the time. So we stood shoulder to shoulder at the Wailing Wall with tears in our eyes.

Prior to the start of the Six Day War Israel went through a month of preparations. Here are some scenes published, starting May 23, in what the Air Force called Readiness Bulletins.

Say it with flowers. Read more >

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the start of the Six Day War. I served in that war. I remember the purpose and resolve of the nation. We knew that the enemy wanted to destroy us while we only wanted to be left alone. We knew that we were honorable and good and that they were blood thirsty savages. Much of the clarity and courage we had then have been lost.

We commemorate the anniversary by publishing some photos from that era. Way back then we were not afraid to name the enemy. We were proud to use the biggest bombs we had. We did not call Islam the Religion of Peace. We named each military operation as we pleased and if the enemy did not like it, we rubbed his face in it. “Infinite Justice” would have been a wonderful name for an operation to avenge the 9/11 attacks, precisely because the enemy found the name irritating. Kind of like using pig skin to bury their dead. Works every time.

On the morning of June 5, 1967, I was manning my post on the Jordanian border. I did not know that just before dawn General Mordecai “Motti” Hod issued the order.

URGENT

From: Air Force Commander 050800

To: All Units

The Egyptian enemy has risen to exterminate us. The IAF, the clenched fist of the IDF, received the order to lead the battle. And so begins the third leg in the battle for our survival.

As in 1948 and 1956 the enemy is coming from all directions.

The spirit of past heroes goes with you into battle. Let the memory of Joshua, King David’s warriors, the Maccabees, and the soldiers of the 1956 Sinai war, be the source of your inspiration. They will give you the strength to crush the Egyptian enemy who threatens our nation. With a decisive victory we will secure peace for ourselves, our children and future generations.

Soar and swoop down on the enemy, bomb them to rubble, remove their fangs, and scatter them in the desert so that the People of Israel may live eternally secure in their homeland. —

General Motti Hod did not understand Islam and had no way of knowing how things will evolve. The magnificent victory did not bring “peace for ourselves, our children and future generations”.

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