Meir Pa'il
Meir Pa'il (Hebrew: מאיר פעיל; 19 June 1926 – 15 September 2015) was a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, an Israeli politician, and military historian.
Biography
Born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era as Meir Pilevsky. His parents, Nahum and Bracha Pilevsky, were pioneers of the Third Aliyah. Pa'il studied at the Tahkemoni school in Jerusalem, a school for laborer's children in Holon, and at Balfour high school in Tel Aviv. He joined the "Working Youth" movement in 1937 and served in an active signal unit for the Haganah. Pa'il served in the Palmach from 1943 to 1948. He participated in a series of operations, including the smuggling of illegal Jewish immigrants from Syria and Lebanon, the Saison, the Night of the Bridges, and an attack on a British police position on Mount Canaan. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Pa'il served in the Negev Brigade. Pa'il served as a career officer in the IDF, commanding the 51st Battalion during the Suez Crisis, the Bahad-1 officers school from 1964-1966, and the Department of Military Theory for the General Staff. He left the IDF in 1971.
Podcasts:
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by Mirrorball
Given Up
by: MirrorballGiving up, giving in
I won`t be no fool again
I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
Yeah (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up, giving in
You can sweet talk to the wind
`Cause I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Yeah, yeah (I`m giving up now)
Too much giving, just no take
Guess I saw it all too late
I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Yeah (I`m giving up now)
All those lies and alibis
That you smoothed out every time
Now I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
*Giving up, always regretting
Giving up, all your deceiving
Giving up, always excusing ( yeah )
Giving up, (there`s) no more delusion
**Giving up, allways regretting
Giving up, no more forgiving
Giving up, too many alibis
Giving up, all of your stupid lies
I`m giving up, I`m giving in
`Cause this old heart ain`t gonna rule my head
Now I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving in (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving in (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up, I`m giving in
My blind hate has got eyes again
I`m giving up (I`m giving up now)
Giving in (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
Yeah (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up, I`m giving in
I won`t be no fool again
I`m giving up, yeah (I`m giving up now)
Giving in (I`m giving up now)
Giving up (I`m giving up now)
Yeah (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up, giving in
You can go sweet talk to the wind
`Cause I`m giving up, yeah (I`m giving up now)
Giving in (I`m giving up now)
I`m giving up, yeah (I`m giving up now)
* repeat
Giving up, always regretting
Giving up, no more forgiving
Giving up, always believing
Giving up, all your deceiving
Giving up, can`t you be honest once in life
Giving up, all of these cruel lies
Giving up, all of your alibis
Giving up, all of your stupid lies, yeah
Giving up
Giving up
Giving up....