@El:

@MC:

Is it really that generous to give back part of what you have occupied ?

It ain’t occupied or Occupied Territories.
It was land won in a war(excuse me) wars!
How many wars can you cite in which the victor gave land back to the loser. I can think of one. After WWI France gave land back to Germany AFAIR.

If anyone is improperly in the territories it’s the Palestinians…
cuz no one will have them!

There was no nation of Palestine before or during the time of Israel.

You know land that is occupied is usually won in a war……

After WW2 Japan and Germany got most of their land back.
I am sure I can come up with more examples later…

You say that there is no occupation , let me qoute Sharon:
“You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation – to
hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible
thing for Israel and for the Palestinians,”

“It can’t continue endlessly,” Sharon said. “Do you want to stay forever in
Jenin, in Nablus, in Ramallah, in Bethlehem? I don’t think that’s right.”

Even a man like Sharon recognizes that there is an occupation.

@Deviant:Scripter:

They started to do that, but their generosity quickly ended when they realized that the bombings still continued. It was part of the roadmap to peace. :roll:

Israel still controls large parts of the West Bank and Gaza. There are 150 jewish settlements in the West Bank. (look at bbc.com for several articles if you are intrested).

Is it really that generous to give back part of what you have occupied ?
If someone stole 100 dollars from you and gave you back 50 would you be grateful?

you know maybe the Palestinians would stop the terrorism if Israel ended the occupation and removed all the illegal settlements……

@TG:

If my impression is correct you are right about the chance to escape poverty and the chance to get a decent education, but shouldn’t everyone have a chance to get a decent education without joining the army ?

Anybody can get a decent secondary education as long as they try and work hard for one (finanical aid, scholarships, student loans). However, the ROTC just means your getting an entirerly paid college education, plus stending money. It’s great when you don’t want to leave college finding yourself thousands of dollars in debt in return for service to your country. Everyone has a chance for a decent education, it’s all a matter of in what form you want to give back.

OK, I am not American so I don’t know exactly how your system works. From what a friend in New Jersey have told me getting a good education in the US is expensive.

@Janus1:

Joining the army is a chance to escape poverty and get a decent education. As for being a hero, it depends what your own individual definition of hero is. If you think saving the lives of your fellow soldiers, or innocent civilians can be considered heroism (I do) than joining the army can in fact provide a chance to become a hero.

If you are lucky you might become a hero, if you are unlucky you will end up killing some of those innocent civilians. If you want to be hero try to do something to help all the poor people in the world.

If my impression is correct you are right about the chance to escape poverty and the chance to get a decent education, but shouldn’t everyone have a chance to get a decent education without joining the army ?

I heard about this on the news, isn’t a scandal that the military in a democracy sends experts to an occupied country without telling the government first ?

What about the american indians (both in north and south america) ?

Two claims taken from http://www.creationism.org/topbar/faq.htm

1. There is no way that the Earth could be over 10,000 years old.
(No need to comment on this claim, make up your own mind)

2. No culture’s history claims to go back further than about 5,000 years.
This claim is obviously false. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has
a chronology of ancient egypt on their website. That chronology starts
in 5450 BC. (about 7400 years ago).

@F_alk:

To get away from French Bashing….

Anyone interested in the Ice Hockey World Championships?

I belived that Denmark could not play hockey…. obviously I was wrong.

I belive it was Rumsfeld that said that war criminals will be punished. Those pictures are an excellent chance for him to prove that he was serious when he said that.

Just to make it clear, I want every war criminal to be punished. I don’t care if you are Iraqi,American,British, or Australian.

@Meijing:

Humiliation of POW:
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,grossbild-253447-242241,00.html
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,grossbild-252004-242424,00.html