Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
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to turn Gaza into a āRiviera in the Middle Eastā.
At a joint press
conference with Israelās prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said
America would take over Gaza, re-develop it and, most shocking of all,
relocate Gazaās 2.2million Palestinians elsewhere, perhaps to Jordan and
Egypt. He followed all this up this week by sharing an AI-generated music video on his Truth Social page. It depicted a futuristic āTrump Gazaā, complete with golden Trump statues and bearded belly dancers.
Palestinians have responded to the White Houseās plan for their
future with understandable outrage. Like most other people the world
over, they are fundamentally attached to the land in which they live. As
one inhabitant told the Guardian, āWe would rather die here than leave this landā.
But hereās the curious thing. The vast majority of those living in
Gaza, those professing strong feelings of attachment to their homeland,
are actually classified as ārefugeesā. For all the international outrage
over Trumpās threat to turn Gazaās Palestinians into a displaced
people, the truth is that the vast majority are already viewed and
treated as such by the UN. Indeed, the refugee status of Palestinians is
one of the unique features of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In 1948, a combination of the foundation of Israel and the
Arab-Israeli war displaced around 750,000 Palestinians, turning them
into refugees. Incredibly, nearly 80 years on, the number of
Palestinians classified as refugees has actually increased, to nearly
six million.
Compare this situation to that of the 11.4million Europeans displaced
and classified as refugees after the Second World War. The UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was set up to deal with the crisis in
1950. By 1954, millions had been successfully resettled, and the number
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