We often feature reports from the dissident Israeli veterans’ organization, Breaking the Silence. It turns out that the Israeli Defense Forces has some American friends who are trying to counter Breaking the Silence with Israeli army propaganda, or hasbara; the organization is called Our Soldiers Speak and says it is “an independent, U.S based, non-for-profit (501 (c)(3)) NGO.” (Interesting that a US group should call Israeli soldiers “our soldiers.”)
An IDF colonel is coming to American campuses in a month; Our Soldiers Speak is looking for takers. An employee of one US campus shared the following offer with us.
Dear Professors,
My name is Richard Offenbacher, I am the International Coordinator for the organization Our Soldiers Speak. You may review further details on our organization via the following links:I am writing to you, in order to inquire after a possible presentation by Col. Dan Goldfus of the Israel Defense Forces.Via our Elite program, Our Soldiers Speak constitutes the sole organization, globally, through which the Israel Defense Forces dispatches uniformed, active, specialized officers to focus-groups on campus.With that in mind, Col. Dan Goldfus will be coming to the United States between the dates of Monday, March 7th to Thursday, March 10th.We would be delighted to have Col. Goldfus present for your students within your area of expertise.Col. Goldfus is a fluent English speaker and he will be presenting on the following subject: Hizbullah – 2006 to 2016 – A 10 Year Analysis; A Five Year Prognosis.Col. Goldfus currently serves in a capacity that is classified however he has full remit to speak on the above subject.Please be assured that due to the fact that Dan Goldfus will be on uniform and is in full time service within the IDF he will not be able to wade into a discussion of a political nature. He is coming purely from an educational perspective, not as part of a PR exercise.In addition, in the event that we are able to bring about a presentation at your university, we would be very pleased if you would identify the appropriate student groups to which we should address ourselves and also for your participation, or for the participation of one of your colleagues, in a dialogue with Col. Goldfus following his presentation while also moderating the questions and answer session that follows.Please let me know if you have interest and if you have any queries or questions.For your convenience, I have enclosed a brief trailer here. Col. Dan Goldfus TrailerSincerely and with kindest regards,
Richard Offenbacher
International Coordinator, Our Soldiers Speak
New York Bureau
Here’s the Our Soldiers Speak Youtube channel, and below is that Dan Goldfus trailer. He says he is the commander of Israeli infantry, northern command:
I will give you an insight of where Hezbollah in Israel has been since 2006 to today. I will give you an insight as to where Hezbollah is in Syria today…. Hezbollah is no doubt part of Iranian policy. It’s not about a war between Israel and Hezbollah. It’s not about a war between Israel and ISIS. It’s about a war that we are fighting as the front outpost of the west. It’s a war of a way of life. The Israeli military is up to any challenge.
The Our Soldiers Speak site boasts that it has been to 300 campuses, and includes those universities’ seals (likely without permission). The site also features a video of a disruption by students of a presentation, denouncing the Israeli soldiers for war crimes, either in Canada or Massachusetts. The organization introduces the video saying, “Perhaps most alarmingly,” one of the students was Jewish. At 2:01, a student says, “I am Jewish, I have family that was killed in the Holocaust. Never again for anybody.” The organization asks American viewers, “Would you send your children to a campus like this?”
“Please be assured that due to the fact that Dan Goldfus will be on uniform… He is coming purely from an educational perspective, not as part of a PR exercise”
Bwahahahahahahaha!
Yes, colonel, please tell us all about the glorious campaign of 2006! Exactly how many tanks did you lose? And don’t leave out the Great Patriotic War of 2014! Please explain in detail why with all your fighter planes, and tanks and missiles and drones and nukes you were unable to retake Gaza like you said you were going to do.
I’ll wait.
Hi everyone,
I’m a general in an army which, despite having free access to the best weaponry US taxpayers’ money can buy, hasn’t won a war since 1973. And this isn’t for the want of trying – au contraire, we’ve fought 4 wars in the past decade alone, and even though our enemies were local militias whose weapons cost maybe 1000th of our fancy boyz toyz, in each case we still had to retreat without having achieved any of our war aims. Some analysts suggest this is due of the fact that, while our public has an almost limitless tolerance for Arab casualties, it lacks resolve and stoicism, and thereby objects when their own military casualties go beyond single figures. In other words, I suppose, you might say that while we can give, we can’t take.
We can, however, manage to kill a huge number of women and children and inflict massive damage on civilian infrastructure, so I’d be happy to give you some pointers on the above. I will be happy to take questions, provided you are aware for you to pose any question I dislike will instantly brand you as a vile anti-semite.
Best wishes,
Colonel Incompetent Loser
The American Jews who support this are guilty of dual loyalty.
And here you have the pro-Israel pitch distilled. This is why they have allied themselves so tightly to the neocons and the clash of civilizations view. It’s why analysts at their war colleges are writing Op-Eds in Jerusalem Post and other papers that the rise of nationalist parties in Europe can potentially be good because Israel can sell itself as an ally against a war on Islam.. oh, sorry, I meant radical Islam!
And lastly, this is why the BS from Zionists that “Israel is singled out” doesn’t make sense. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the other states don’t claim to be Western. Israel does. And Israel gets far more money than they do.
It also speaks volumes about where Israel feels it belongs, culturally, and it’s sure as hell not in the region. The reason why BDS scares the shit out of so many Jewish Zionists is because they know the West has a ton of leverage over Israel, and most of that leverage is not about money but cultural identity and belonging, two things far more powerful.
This article is just crammed with juicy tidbits!
“It’s about a war that we are fighting as the front outpost of the west. It’s a war of a way of life..”..and it’s call Colonialism, AKA the White Man’s Burden.
I think they should move that Cecil Rhodes statue to Israel, he’d be more at home there.