Official photo released by the Ministry of Defense of a top meeting in the Zeelim Camp. Right Ehud Barak, Minister of Defense; left Benny Gantz, Chief of Staff. In the middle and behind, typical Israeli officers. We
ARE different, and dont care how we look.
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Different from whom?
Different from the US Army, different from any European army with their rigid "military" posture, their sitting up straight, their attention to the words of the minister. Look at the faces of the soldiers in the background, they are not American soldiers in the presence of their generals. Even the Argentine military demands that the men look "smart", attentive and visibly respectful.
Even the Argentine military demands that the men look "smart", attentive and visibly respectful.
Argentina's generals once won a glorious victory over Paraguay!
There are those who say that the IDF isn't an army - it's the world's most powerful militia.
Anonymous, you are wrong. It was not Argentina alone that won that war, it was the Triple Alianza of Brasil, Uruguay and Argentina.
Argentina did defeat Beresford's invasion in 1806 and expulsed the British. Many say that it was Argentina's worse mistake.
It was not Argentina alone that won that war, it was the Triple Alianza of Brasil, Uruguay and Argentina.
It was a glorious military victory, regardless. As important to world history as the Punic Wars.
Many say that it was Argentina's worse mistake.
If Argentina had been by ruled British imperialists they would be as wealthy and powerful as the other Anglo-Saxon colonies.
What might have been
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasions_of_the_Río_de_la_Plata
Britain had long harboured interests in taking control of the zone before the invasions. Back in 1711, John Pullen stated that the Río de la Plata was the best place in the world for making a British colony. His proposal included Santa Fe and Asunción, and would generate an agriculture area with Buenos Aires as the main port. Admiral Vernon declared as well the benefit of opening markets in those areas in 1741. By 1780 the British government approved a project of colonel Fullarton to take the Americas with attacks from both the Atlantic (from Europe) and the Pacific (from India). This project was cancelled.[8]
Nicholas Vansittart made a new proposal in 1796: take Buenos Aires, move to Chile and attack from it the Spanish stronghold of El Callao. This proposal was canceled the following year, but was improved by Thomas Maitland in 1800 as the Maitland Plan. The new plan was to seize control of Buenos Aires with 4.000 soldiers and 1.500 cavalry, move to Mendoza, and prepare a military expedition to cross the Andes and conquer Chile. From there, the British would move from sea to emancipate Perú and then Quito.[9]
All those proposals were discussed in 1804 by William Pitt, lord Henry Melville and sir Home Riggs Popham. Popham did not trust in a complete military occupation of South America, but just in taking control of key locations to allow the main objective, to open new markets for the British economy. Although there was consensus in weakening the Spanish control over the Spanish colones in South America, it wasn't agreed the system and moment to take such plans into action. For instance, it was not agreed whenever Britain should turn those cities into British colonies, or promote their emancipation under British protection.[10]
I attended the civil wedding in America of a good friend, an Israeli lawyer who'd done a graduate degree at an American university. (He later went and got married in a proper ceremony in Israel. The earlier civil marriage was to expedite his wife's immigration status.)
I was surprised when I got an email a few days before asking for advice on how to wear a suit. He explained to me that, in Israel, it is a significant faux pas to go to a job interview in a suit - people will see you as stiff and a weirdo.
So, I agree, Israelis are different. He is a hell of a lawyer btw and is having a brilliant career in America.
-s.n.
Israeli laywers in court wear black suits which look ridiculous on them, and specially on the female mutated black suits that exaggerate their already grotesque butts.
Yesterday I had a meeting in Tel Aviv. It was an inferno, hot and steamy, noisy and dangerous (the traffic). 70% of the people was talking on the phone while walking the street. Arab cleaning ladies (you can see only their eyes) are working with the phone stuck in their ears. Then you enter an office and you are in the Alps, Switzerland.
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