‘You will NEVER ever catch us unawares again. NEVER. The prettiest most daintiest girl, the fattest boy... is gonna learn how to operate a gun...'

'You will NEVER ever catch us unawares again. NEVER. The prettiest most daintiest girl, the fattest boy, the littlest guy, the meekest mouse is gonna learn how to operate a gun and is gonna know what it means to be a WARRIOR. We will never be caught sleeping again!'

The words of Quentin Tarantino on visiting Israel recently. Here's the rest of his thoughts:

'Here’s the thing that I did not know about Israel before I went there: I didn’t know—and truthfully I got turned on by it; I dug it, I really dug it—I didn’t know that every young person has to go into the army. I was unaware of that. The concept behind that I thought was awesome. To me, what it said was, (and he bangs his fists on the table) ‘You will NEVER ever catch us unawares again. NEVER. The prettiest most daintiest girl, the fattest boy, the littlest guy, the meekest mouse is gonna learn how to operate a gun and is gonna know what it means to be a WARRIOR. We will never be caught sleeping again!’ And that was COOL.'

Quentin gets it, well done him; I presume the BBC will not report the words of the super-cool Quentin Tarantino, it was bad enough that “Inglourious Basterds” showed Jews fighting back but supporting the concept of Israeli national service - Quentin may have gone too far for the BBC.

Watch out for my post re the Yom Kippur war of 1973...