Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
WHY ARE JEWS AND ARABS ALWAYS AT WAR?" Almost daily, newspapers around the world report the endless legal attacks between Israelis and Palestinians and the various international initiatives to try, unsuccessfully, for peace between the two peoples. The conflict between Arabs and Jews, despite the current ones, has ancient origins and carries a long history of religious disagreements and land disputes.
"Since biblical times, Jews and Arabs, who are two among several Semitic peoples, have occupied parts of the territory of the Middle East. After 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany and the increase in persecution against Jews in Europe, migration Jewish access to the region grew dramatically.
The Palestinians, in turn, resisted this occupation and the conflicts worsened. After the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust, which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews, a growing international demand for creation of Jews in an Israeli state meant that the United Nations (UN) approved, in 1947, a plan to divide Palestine into two states: one Jewish, occupying 57% of the area, and the other Palestinian (Arab), with the remaining land.
"This sharing, unequal in relation to historical occupation, displeased Arab countries in general", says Alexandre Hecker.
In 1948, the British finally vacated the region and the Jews founded, on May 14, the State of Israel. A day later, the Arabs, dissatisfied with the partition, declared war on the new nation, but were defeated.
“The conflict allowed to Israel increased its territory to 75% of the former Palestinian lands: the rest was annexed by Transjordan (the part called the West Bank) and Egypt (the Gaza strip)”, explains the professor. As a result, many Palestinians took refuge in neighboring Arab states, while many arrived under Israeli authority.
“Other wars followed over borders, with advantages for Israel and always without a solution to the refugee problem.” Despite some attempts at agreements and peace plans, the current situation is still very impasse, mainly due to the fact that the Palestinians, led by the radical Islamic movement Hamas, do not consider Israel's right to exist.
In Alexandre's opinion, "the war between Palestinians and Jews will only come to an end when a Palestinian state is created that occupies, equally with Israel, the entire territory as it appeared in 1917."
After 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany and the increase in persecution against Jews in Europe, Jewish migration to the region grew dramatically.
The Palestinians, in turn, resisted this occupation and the conflicts worsened. After the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust, which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews, the growing international demand for the creation of an Israeli state led the United Nations (UN) to approve, in 1947, a plan for division of Palestine into two states: one Jewish, occupying 57% of the area, and the other Palestinian (Arab), with the rest of the land.
"This sharing, unequal in relation to the historical occupation, displeased Arab countries in general", says Alexandre Hecker.
In 1948, the British finally vacated the region and the Jews founded, on May 14, the State of Israel. A day later, the Arabs, dissatisfied with the partition, declared war on the new nation, but ended up defeated.
"The conflict allowed Israel to increase its territory to 75% of the former Palestinian lands: the rest was annexed by Transjordan (the part called the West Bank) and Egypt (the Gaza strip)", explains the professor. As a result, many Palestinians took refuge in neighboring Arab states, while many remained under Israeli authority. "Other wars followed over borders, with advantages for Israel and always without a solution to the refugee problem."
Despite some attempts at agreements and peace plans, the current situation is still very impasse, mainly due to the fact that the Palestinians, led by the radical Islamic movement Hamas, do not recognize Israel's right to exist.
