"We Love Death”

Israeli tank in the Sinai¹

As Yom Kippur, begins with today's sunset, so does the remembrance of another sunset in 1973 when 13 Islamist nations had every intent of affirming that Israel was "not only incompatible with modern human life, but with life itself."

Outnumbered and outgunned by staggering proportions, Israel was going "down"! In the Sinai, exactly 450 Israeli troops faced a force of 100,000 Egyptians, with superiority in artillery of 40-1 and a force of 1,350 tanks to Israel’s 91. On the Golan, the Syrians had eight tanks for every Israeli tank.

Golda Meir later recalled, "They fought and fell like lions." It was at that point that Moshe Dayan secured her authorization to arm 13 intermediate-range Jericho missiles with nuclear warheads as well as Eight F-4 Phantom fighters with nuclear arms... and Israel came close to fulfilling the passion of the jihadist confraternity: "We love death more than you love life!"

“And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand… that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S” (cf. 1Samuel 17:44-47).

1"Destroyed m60" by Sherif9282 at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBotOriginal caption: “Military Battles on the Egyptian Front by Gammal Hammad”. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons