avnery again: http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery06072010.html from the article:It is impossible not to be reminded of the classic Jewish joke about the Jewish mother in Russia taking leave of her son, who has been called up to serve the Czar in the war against Turkey. “Don’t overexert yourself’” she implores him, “Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again…” “But mother,” the son interrupts, “What if the Turk kills me?” “You?” exclaims the mother, “But why? What have you done to him?” To any normal person, this may sound crazy. Heavily armed soldiers of an elite commando unit board a ship on the high seas in the middle of the night, from the sea and from the air – and they are the victims?
