Mr Kobayashi
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Fair to say Robbieh, that you and I are not even fit to lace that mans shoes. A hero of the people for the people and from the people. The utterances we both breath on a football forum, pale into insignificance to this mans deeds.
After graduating from high school in 1967 Netanyahu returned to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces. He trained as a combat soldier and served for five years in a special forces unit of the IDF.
He took part in numerous cross-border raids during the 1967–70 War of Attrition, including the March 1968 Battle of Karameh, when the IDF attacked jordan to capture Yasser Arafat but were repulsed with heavy casualties, then rising to become a team-leader in the unit.
He was wounded in combat on multiple occasions. He was involved in many other missions, including the 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon and the rescue of the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in May 1972, in which he was shot in the shoulder.
He was discharged from active service in 1972 but remained in the Sayeret Matkal reserve.
Following his discharge, he left to study in the United States but returned in October 1973 to serve in the Yom Kippur War. He took part in special forces raids along the suez against egyptian forces before leading a commando attack deep inside Syrian territory.
His brother yoni also a special forces operative was killed in action on a raid he commanded at Ettebe. Now known as operation yonatan in his memory.
Surrounded on all sides by religious fookwits, hellbent on the destruction and total anihiliation of the state of Israel, he has shown true strength in the face of terrorist onslaught that threatens their very existance. God speed that man.
You've left out the fact that he's despised within Israel almost as much as he is in Palestine. And the main reason he returned to office as PM was to avoid corruption charges.
He's a grub.
The leaders in Hamas and Hezbollah getting taken out usually glowing military careers and tales of bravery. You don't afford them the same courtesy. They all make their own myths.