Blogging for Freedom

As Israeli groundtroops mobilize to cross the border into Lebanon, I am reminded of another historic battle, more than 50 years ago.  Leon Uris wrote an amazing novel called Mila 18 (1961) chronicling the heroic struggle of a city in Poland under siege by Nazi troops.  The residents of that closed-off city fought long and hard as urban guerillas to save themselves and to evacuate as many women and children out as they could through the sewers and underground tunnels.  The ferocity of the freedom fighters held off the Nazis for far longer than anyone believed possible.

The Warsaw Ghetto is still today honored by Jews world-wide as a sacred battle against evil.

Israelis would do well to remember that the Lebanese will fight just as hard and strong to protect themselves, their people and their own sovereign land as the Jews did in World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto.

in the holy land
that which almost destroyed them
they have now become