That is Lieutenant Colonel Or Ben Yehuda, commander of the CARACAL unit near Gaza.
On the morning of October 7th, she opened her eyes and saw Hamas in front of her.
“I look up at the sky, then lower my head again, glance to the side, and there are maybe five pickup trucks coming toward me, full of motorcycle riders. There are terrorists leaping between the sand dunes and the trees, all of them wearing vests and uniforms, moving in our direction, and I can’t even count them properly with my eyes. It’s hundreds. Hundreds.
And farther back, on the distant road, I see columns of Gazan civilians simply walking toward us, some armed, some not.
And I say to myself: ‘That’s it. This is where I die. Right here, exactly where I’m standing now. This is where I die.’
Then I said to myself: Fine. If this is the end, then I’ll end it well. I’ll die with honor. I’ll do the best I can. And I’ll fight until my very last drop of blood.
So I turn to my soldiers, a group of twelve heroic fighters waiting for me to tell them what to do. I turn to them with half a smile.
Later, they told me I smiled; I didn’t remember it.
And I tell them: ‘Come on, let’s tear them apart!’
And they all shout back: ‘Yalla!!!’
They come to the embankment with machine guns, with everything they can carry, and we position ourselves there and start firing at everyone approaching the outpost. We’re shooting like mad. At some point, we had a LAU missile with us, so we fired it at one of the Hamas pickup trucks. The truck exploded in a massive blast, something unbelievable. There must have been huge amounts of explosives inside, and the explosion took several of the motorcycle riders with it.
And little by little, I suddenly realize many of them are beginning to retreat, turn around, and flee back the way they came.
And suddenly I understood: yes, we’re doing something significant here.
We were there for about half an hour, and then, in the middle of all the chaos, I suddenly hear the tracks of a tank behind me.
It was an unbelievable sigh of relief.
I told my deputy company commander: ‘Stay here! I don’t know whose tank this is — I’m going to get it!’
It was already around eleven o’clock. I start moving backward, advancing toward the tank through the concrete barriers, and suddenly I realize a terrorist is jumping at me from point-blank range, and in another second, he would’ve been hugging me.
And my luck was that I already had a round in the chamber and my finger on the trigger. It was literally a question of who shoots first, and I shot first.
The terrorist collapsed in front of me.
And I froze for a moment, like, what was that? What just happened?
Then I hear my deputy commander yelling from behind me:
‘Commander! Commander! Are you okay?’
I look at myself, I’m okay.
I turn back toward him and signal with my hand: everything’s under control.
He runs up after me, looks at me, and says, ‘What… what just happened between you two?’
And I tell him: ‘Exactly what’s going through your head right now.’
But the tank!
I remember — I can’t let it leave. We need it.
I ran quickly toward it, and because I’m used to working with my tank crews, I started signaling to them in tank hand signals: ‘Terrorists there, behind me, do this, shell over there!’
And he’s with us, he understands immediately.
And for the first time, I suddenly have additional force joining me.
We make some kind of flanking maneuver, take up a strong position, and simply fire toward wherever the terrorists are coming from. We keep firing and firing, and they start pulling back. And I understand — all of us understand — that if we don’t continue fighting right now, those terrorists will get past us and reach all the communities behind us.
At a certain point, my deputy commander and his radio operator are hit by an RPG and collapse to the ground. So we pull them out of there.
Then I call friends of mine who are pilots flying Yasur and Yanshuf helicopters, and I ask them to come land at the helipad near the outpost, because I’ve evacuated wounded soldiers there and I need them to clear our casualties out. And it actually happens. They arrive, they land, and they evacuate the wounded for me.
Meanwhile, my medical unit is there the entire time treating casualties, loading them up, evacuating them to the helipad. We managed to bring there the wounded from the APC we had seen, the wounded from our battalion, and several civilians we picked up along the way — people who escaped from Kibbutz Sufa, from Pri Gan, and from other places. They all received treatment from my incredible medical team — those angels — and the helicopters I called in evacuated them to Soroka Hospital, where they finally received proper care.
There were also many dead in that battle.
There were dead.
And I remember one moment at the end, when everything was over, just minutes before they came to evacuate the bodies. There was a moment when they were lying there side by side, and I walked between them, gently touching their faces, stroking them softly, telling them I was sorry, and closing their eyes.
And I remember telling myself in that moment that those people, who were now making their final journey, were unbelievable heroes. They fought there like lions to save Kibbutz Sufa. They fought until their last drop of blood."
From Or's book 'book One Day in October'.
Pope Leo claims he's "concerned about the inhumanity in Gaza" and the suffering of Palestinians.
Where the hell was that concern on October 7th, when thousands of Palestinians in Gaza flooded the streets to celebrate as Hamas paraded the mutilated bodies of dead Israelis?
A Gazan man stands in front of a group of IDF soldiers, steps back, trips, and plays dead😂🤣
Count how many “journalists” you see rushing onto the scene, and how long it took an ambulance to arrive?
So many things over the last three years that have happened in Gaza were so well choreographed and preplanned to ensure that you, the audience, bought into every second of it.
Pallywood has worked overtime.
Want to know how you’re being duped?
Check this out.
Watch this video of Israelis singing “Ivdu Et Hashem Besimcha”, which means “Worship God with joy.”
Then see this article.
https://t.co/qM072MWSt3
The guardian reports this as “Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march.”
A blatant lie on all fronts.
It was a beautiful and peaceful march and they weren’t saying anything about death to Arabs.
Serious question. How is this allowed?
Imagine such an article about literally any other ethnic group or race.
Imagine a march of LGBTQ singing about equality and the media reporting it as “LGBTQ chanting ‘Death to straight people’”
Imagine the outrage.
A peaceful march of feminists singing about women’s rights being reported as “Violent feminists call for death to all men.”
People would lose their minds!
And yet, when it’s Jews or Israelis the media is defaming, no one says a word.
So, someone tell me, what’s it called when you make up lies about Jews and spread those lies to millions of people?
It’s the same pattern every single time:
They accuse the Jews of exactly what they tried to do themselves.
They attempted genocide — then accuse the Jews of genocide.
They carried out rape and organized sexual violence against Israeli civilians — then accuse Israel of systematic rape.
They pour billions into academia, the media, and social platforms — then accuse Israel of buying influence.
They refuse to let Jews in — then accuse Israel of apartheid.
Look at every issue one by one, and you’ll see the exact same pattern repeated over and over again.
Every accusation is a confession.
It pains me to go after Nick Kristof so hard because I’ve met him many times and have a very friendly relationship. He’s an incredible humanitarian, writer and journalist, and I think he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his work exposing the genocide in Darfur, sex trafficking, etc.
But his latest column, The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians, is clearly largely (though not entirely) inaccurate and has done enormous damage to Israel and all Jews. I think his big heart, seeing the genuine suffering of so many Palestinians, has created a huge blind spot allowing him to be manipulated by propaganda – some dating back a CENTURY (see article below).
As Dan Senor writes, his column was “an explicit attempt to draw a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel by alleging that both equally engage in systematic sexual violence”, which is OUTRAGEOUS.
1) Here’s Dan Senor: The Making of the Kristof Column — with Matti Friedman (https://t.co/j3TYw9UM2X)
2) The NYT is trying to defend the indefensible. The comments are brutal – and spot on. (https://t.co/R3RAyFgUq0)
3) Good to see Israel plans to sue – I can’t wait to see what discovery uncovers. (https://t.co/1f8fSsd8pE)
4) More powerful articles:
- Guy Goldstein: The New York Times and 100 Years of Rape Inversion: Why the New York Times’ latest antisemitic trope can trace its roots back to the father of Palestinian nationalism (https://t.co/8ynowh4PHX)
- WSJ editorial: The Truth About Hamas (https://t.co/w9fbzJb0w7)
- NY Post op ed: New York Times’ libelous campaign against Israel continues apace (https://t.co/sNSHo3Ciwg)
- The Free Press, Eli Lake: Nick Kristof’s ‘Dog Torture’ Claim About Israel Doesn’t Pass Muster (https://t.co/1RTynatJzp)
- Olmert Accuses NYT’s Kristof of Misrepresenting Comments on Alleged Rape of Palestinian Inmates (https://t.co/urHjKOihr3)
- WSJ op ed: Antisemites Right and Left: To speak plainly about Jew-hatred in one’s own party is hard. It’s also a duty. (https://t.co/L8f0h1hKLE)
There is stupid.
There is really stupid.
And then there’s Candace-Stupid™ 😂
She genuinely believes the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem is the only place Muslims are allowed to live in Israel.
Then she doubles down and says a “Rabbi told her so.”
There are 2 million Arab citizens (mostly Muslim) living freely all over Israel in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Nazareth, the Galilee, the Negev, everywhere.
Just like Italians don’t only live in Little Italy and Chinese don’t only live in Chinatown.
The level of stupidity is actually impressive.
This is Candace-Stupid™
Remember Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent 8 years on death row after being accused of “blasphemy” for drinking water from a Muslim’s cup.
Asia was working in the fields with her Muslim coworkers. She got thirsty and went to fetch water from the well, where she took a drink with an old metal cup she had found. That’s all it took.
Christians are considered dirty and impure in Islam, and she was accused of attempting to contaminate the Muslims’ water just by drinking from their cup. She was sentenced to death by hanging.
The governor of her province voiced opposition to the verdict and was assassinated by his own bodyguard.
When she was finally acquitted in 2018 due to international pressure, tens of thousands of Muslims rioted, demanding her immediate execution.
A local poll found that 10 MILLION Pakistanis would personally kill her if given the chance. Just for drinking water from a Muslim’s cup.
Her lawyer had to flee the country. And after months in hiding, she was finally able to escape Pakistan and received asylum in Canada.
This is Pakistan, where non-Muslims live under the constant threat of death. The more I learn about this country, the more it just feels like ISIS with a formal government.
@NateSilver538 What a world where so many people eagerly await the hateful vile words of Jackson Hinkle, Andrew Tate and Dan Bilzerien. Curious why you put Hinkle in red? His antiJewish screeds are the typical type of leftist hate speech generated by those in the pocket of Qatar, Turkey…