Waiting for Churchill

Today is May 10th. Churchill wasn’t born that day. He didn’t die that day. He didn’t even made one of his great speeches that day. But on that day he changed the course of history.
On May 10th 1940, Nazi Germany, led by the infamous Hitler, invaded the Netherlands. World War II started over eight months before that day, but this part of the war wasn’t named “Bore War” for nothing – Britain under the fragile leadership of Neville Chamberlain‏ declared war against Germany, but in fact did everything in its power to avoid major scale escalation with Germany, just like it did before the war with the humiliating “Munich Agreements”.
Mere hours after the invasion, Chamberlain resigned. Churchill was called to change history, and clear it from the dreadful ideas of the Nazism.

Today, almost 70 years later we know that Chamberlain’s “Appeasement” was a nearly-fatal mistake. But did we learn the lesson? Iran is heading full steam ahead towards nuclear arsenal. And what does the world do? Nothing. All of the world leaders prefer to sit this fight out. They all prefer the comfort of this fraudulent peace. I only wish these leaders remembered Churchill’s remark to Chamberlain "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."

We are all waiting for a new Churchill. Let’s just hope he’ll show up soon enough.

And as for us on the IDF, we need no one to tell us that “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat“. We know that already. That’s our day-by-day routine.

And if that frustrating history lesson wasn’t enough on its own, I missed “Depeche Mode”s show! Some of my friends were lucky enough to go there. The worst thing about this is that I could have had tickets using a “COMBINA” from my uncle…