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Military service legislation

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the arab israelis, they only know how to enjoy the benefits of democracy and equal social status given to them in israel...

Come on, man! We were all being so civil here...

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Our country is 24million people, but its relatively big. I didn't even knew that such a small country like Singapore had an army at all  (i have a friend living there) But Israel is a whole other matter. I don't know how or when peace will be achieved in that region, but i think something radical like palestinians and israeli people marrying each other and forming mixed families or things like that need to be done over there. Its an endless bloodshed, and it saddens me, but BOTH sides need to stop and repent, especially to the eyes of God they always mention but seem to forgot...

It is too bad that both sides have all that bloodshed going on. There is one thing certain, when war and religion are mixed the results are not pretty no matter who's God you claim to be following. Nothing is scarier then wars based on religion, except maybe wars between two totally different forms of government (Cold War between USA vs. USSR). Thing about religious wars is they pretty much never end, each side is try to get revenge for what the other side has done, even revenge for events thousands of years old.

Only way I can see it stopping is if both sides stop retaliating, even if there is an occassional suicide bomber or Israeli airstrike. It is like trying to figure out which kid started a fight, all they can do is point fingers at each other and say they were acting in self-defense.

Whoever can solve this conflict gets the Nobel Peace Prize for the next millenium, that is pretty much how huge such an achievement will be.
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Military service legislation

Reply #27 –
The conflict between Israel and Palestine will never end. Israel stakes a native, sovereign claim to the strip of land it is occupying now...and the Palestinian militants have pledged their whole lives (and lives) to driving the Israelis from that land, which they also claim is their birthplace. I think it shouldn't be a surprise that wherever the Israelis go as a nation, there will be some form of systematic opposition, violent or otherwise, to their existence.
Both sides of the conflict have offered themselves so little options to peace, I'm not surprised if the conflict never ends, or if some 'false peace' is brokered.

That was some discourse.

Anyway, I'm from Singapore too, and at this point I'm half a year away from being drafted.
Heheh, Singapore needs a defence force because of its geographical location and political and economic affiliations (Having close ties to the USA and all).

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Our country is 24million people, but its relatively big. I didn't even knew that such a small country like Singapore had an army at all  (i have a friend living there)

With such a small country, it's definitely a necessity to have compulsory military service. You're not going to have much of a defense force based solely on professional or even volunteer army...

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Just professional army here in Spain. No military service anymore.

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Afaik we've never had compulsory service here in Australia, we have had drafts though, during the vietnam war and possibly the second world war as well.

I'm a little surprised to hear of so many countries still with military service, it does make sense for some though.

Our military is basically focused around defending Australia which seems to be a bit easier when your an island nation, no land borders.
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Watch out where the huskies go,
Don't you eat that yellow snow

Sweden too has "compulsory" service. It's in quotes because if you don't want to it's easy enough to be placed in the reserve and get away with only the two days of physical examination. I was blind according to their tests so I got away quite easily

And you should always eat yellow snow - it could be beer!
 

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