It’s
Not an F-16, It’s God
Rogel Alpher, Haaretz
Since World War I, countless fighter jets have been downed. Planes of
the British, German, Japanese, Soviet, U.S. and other armies have
been downed over Europe, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Pacific Ocean and
every other possible battlefield on every continent. They didn’t
simply plummet to earth due to technical failure; they were shot down
by other fighter planes or by anti-aircraft fire — despite being
the best fighter planes of their time, flown by the best pilots
humanity has ever created, pilots no less skilled than those of the
Israeli air force, even if they were goyim.
Yet it seems news
of a downed fighter has never before been met with the shock and
dismay that greeted the terrible tidings that an Israeli fighter
plane was brought down by Syrian anti-aircraft fire about a week ago.
Israeli Jews were beside themselves. Their attitude toward the
burning fragments of their fighter plane was as if a tribal totem had
been blown up and torched, true desecration; as if their national
pride had been castrated.
What a religious
ritual was conducted over that plane. In the history of aerial
warfare, it’s doubtful that any plane has ever been treated so
religiously, like a false god revealed as mortal, Superman dropped
from the sky, against all odds.
For Israeli Jews,
air force jets are divine; the air supremacy they are supposed to
afford is a divine supremacy that gives them the powers of omnipotent
gods. The planes are supposed to be invulnerable, and the pilots who
fly them are supposed to be angels. Angels do not commit human
errors.
Images of the
direct hits by Israel Air Force fighter jets on small, remote targets
on the ground — images that are shown on television, eliciting awe
from viewers, in which the crosshairs of the plane’s gunsight could
be seen homing in on its target — attest to the superpowers of this
divine plane and its angelic pilots.
They see
everything from on high. Like God, nothing, no matter how small or
how hidden, escapes their eyes. Nothing can escape their vengeful
divine fire.
Like God, the
Israeli fighter jet is omnipresent and can reach anywhere. It has a
long arm. It’s the perfect predator, king of the skies. It’s an
eagle, while Israeli Jews’ enemies, the Iranians and the Arabs, are
nothing but rabbits and mice that flee in panic for their burrows and
holes.
How much awe and
respect the Israeli fighter jet inspires in the hearts of Israeli
Jews! During the Independence Day flyover, they wave tiny flags at it
and clap for it. In their hearts, they bow down to it.
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