Jewish Odysseus: IDF CAPTAIN ADRAEE WARNS ARABS...IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE

Friday, January 9, 2009

IDF CAPTAIN ADRAEE WARNS ARABS...IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE

Is it my imagination or does this Israeli captain sound much scarier because he's speaking Arabic? And doesn't it appear that the actual rhetoric he is using is much more in-your-face confrontational than when Israeli spokesmen make "stern warnings" in English?

One thing is clear: He. Aint. Playin.

A VERY effective vid.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Lol, he does sound scary, but no offense brother, so does Hebrew. >.< And German for that matter. Very scary sounding, German is.; January 10, 2009 at 12:13:00 PM PST
SC&A said...: Beautiful. Like poetry.

When reason and rationality won't work...; January 11, 2009 at 5:08:00 AM PST
Jewish Odysseus said...: No offense taken, JD, but even the SUBSTANCE of what Capt. Adraee said seems more menacing, and clear. I have NEVER seen an IDF spokesman say in English, "We will not allow Hamas to set the parameters of this conflict," which is a VERY key phrase here.

As I say, a very effective vid.; January 11, 2009 at 10:19:00 AM PST

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.