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Someone once compared my position in forming the first Solidarity government to that of a soldier disarming a minefield.
One testified that a US soldier had used a rifle to knock out a row of his teeth, and that he was forced to dance to music whenever he needed to use the bathroom.
The Army of Islam joined in the raid that abducted the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in June 2006.
Born on a kibbutz, he served most of his life in the Israeli army, became its Chief-of-Staff and also its most decorated soldier.
As one Kosovo Liberation Army commander warned, “If we kill one KFOR soldier a day, these cowards will leave.”
And, not surprisingly, despite the Maduro regime’s increasing – and increasingly well-documented – brutality, not a single politician, soldier, police officer, militia member, or paramilitary “enforcer” has been indicted, tried, or sentenced for any crime.
Incremental intergovernmental solutions will continue to prevail, and Europe’s economy will soldier on, steadily losing ground to the US and emerging economies like China and India.
For example, Juma Ibrahim Juma Adam and Mahmoud Salam Saliman Abu Karbish firebombed a civilian bus, killing a pregnant woman, three of her preschool-age children, and the Israeli soldier who tried to save them.
It is not easy for a marine or soldier to construct a school or clinic when he is being fired upon, or for Iraqi moderates to risk their lives by being supportive when they have no protection against insurgents.
Though a protégé of Musharraf, the army’s chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, is a professional soldier for whom the army’s institutional interests are more important than the political interests of his former army boss.
To die in Kashmir officially qualifies a soldier or officer as a "shaheed" (martyr).
Not one Iranian soldier has ever shed his blood for our people the way the soldiers of Egypt and Jordan did, yet their governments later signed peace agreements with Israel.”
A Thousand to OneHAIFA – The celebrations in Israel over the release of the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit come after the Israeli government concluded that diplomatic rarity, an agreement with Hamas.
But, despite deep popular sympathy, not a few Israelis – on both the left and the right – opposed the exchange of one soldier for a thousand or more Palestinian prisoners, some of whom perpetrated terrorist attacks that killed dozens of people.
By demanding the release of more than 1,000 prisoners in exchange for one soldier, Hamas is conceding the stark military reality of this imbalance: thousands of their prisoners, fighting with knives, explosive belts, and primitive rockets, are worth only one Israeli soldier.
The release of one Israeli soldier in exchange for such men could therefore endanger many lives in the future.
It displayed a composite picture of an Israeli tank and a soldier taking aim at a defenseless Palestinian.
Their dream careers were: lawyer, criminal investigator, forensic physician, and soldier.
To work properly, a commitment strategy should also be costly in case of failure: had Cortés lost, no Spanish soldier would have escaped alive.
Take the case of the British soldier Lee Clegg who, while on duty in Northern Ireland, shot and killed a teenage joyrider whose car failed to stop at a security check.
So, did he have genes for criminal aggression, or is he a good soldier?
While I hungered for an education - and even enrolled at university - I remained valuable as a soldier.
In tranquil London, I now contemplate my life as a child soldier.
For example, he became embroiled in a dispute with an American Muslim couple whose son, a US soldier, was killed in Iraq, and in a petty feud with Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after Trump felt slighted.
A soldier has a duty just to carry out the orders of his chiefs, no matter who they are and no matter what orders they give.
True, my beloved wristwatch (which I had miraculously saved throughout the weeks of Soviet occupation) was taken from me by an American soldier on my way home from school.
North Korea’s leaders, not exactly known for fresh thinking, are likely to soldier on into a future that has little to offer their beleaguered people.
No Israeli soldier has ever killed an Iranian soldier, and vice versa.
Worse than that, a number of Republican senators, including such luminaries as John McCain, called for stripping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is a US citizen, of his legal rights and placing him before a military tribunal as an “enemy combatant,” as though the 19-year-old college student were a soldier in a war against America.
At the head of the firing party, a French soldier carries the Tricolor forward.
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