Thursday, September 17, 2009

First the Poles, Then The Phillipinos

My friend RA asks:

Does this mean that the IDF can now continue to call up miluim up to the age of 80 because there will be Phillipinim there to take care of them?

And the "this" is:

Philipinne troups replace Poles in Golan Heights.

MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines will send a battalion to the Golan Heights to join United Nations peacekeeping efforts there, the government said on Monday. The first members of the 336-strong contingent will begin deploying this month in the nation’s “biggest and most challenging mission” since joining UN peacekeeping efforts over 40 years ago, Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said. The Philippines detachment will take over from a Polish contingent in the UN Disengagement Observer Force, established in 1974 following the agreed disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights.

1 comment:

yoni said...

careful, you hapless vuzvuz. you might need a phillipino/a to take care of you some day, when your lazy blogging to-the-manor-born butt refuses to carry you around anymore. disgusted.