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To: LLLefty who wrote (21574)3/17/2002 2:42:56 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
In that spirit, an old joke that dates to that period, at least. The wonders of google allow me to avoid the hazards of personally mangling it, though these two retellings are weaker than I remember, I think there was a lead-in about being lost in a sandstorm in the version I recall.

An Israeli tank hit an Egyptian tank. The Egyptian jumped out of his tank,
frantically waving a white flag. The Israeli jumped out of his tank shouting, "Whiplash!Whiplash!"
pages.zoom.co.uk

Or alternatively, cafearabica.com



To: LLLefty who wrote (21574)3/17/2002 4:28:05 PM
From: frankw1900  Respond to of 281500
 
"Let me tell you the difference. When an Egyptian soldier gets shot in the stomach, he just lays there
and dies. When an Israeli soldier gets a cut on his finger, he yells for a medic."

He was making a dead serious point in an amusing way. Arab armies do badly partly because their treatment of soldiers is often neglectful.

Men are men. No difference. How they're treated makes the difference.


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