inspectorfrost

I remember some lads who worked at an Asda 20-25 years ago when the store first bought pound trolleys in, and the coins often didn't release when the trolley was returned (back in the days where their wage was about £3 per hour). They quickly realised that just by carrying some pliers on their shift they'd significantly increase their earnings just from pocketing the pound coins that customers used to leave in the trolleys in a typical day.

British foreign officer resigns over arms exports to Israel https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvpm1049d9o Mr Smith said he had previously worked in Middle East arms export licensing assessment for the government and “each day” colleagues were witnessing “clear and unquestionable examples” of war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law by Israel in Gaza. “Senior members of the Israeli government and military have expressed open genocidal intent, Israeli soldiers take videos deliberately burning, destroying and looting civilian property,” he wrote. “Whole streets and universities have been demolished, humanitarian aid is being blocked and civilians are regularly left with no safe quarter to flee to. Red Crescent ambulances have been attacked, schools and hospitals are regularly targeted. These are War Crimes.” He said there was “no justification for the UK's continued arms sales to Israel”.

Asking a group of rowdy customers to leave a pub https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0krr97l4nzo

It actually is given companies were moving away from a flat 9-5 in the office world 20 years ago The last company I worked for that enforced 9-5 or similar on everyone was 12 years ago. A 5 day week - 8 years ago. A lot of companies don't even enforce rigid hours now, get the job done and they really couldn't care less how long you spend on social media.

In the words of the Israeli defence minister - “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,”. Gaza has nearly 2.4 million people, only 40000 of that is Hamas. The extremist regimes are on both sides.

Because they wouldn't have been able to whitewash the resulting carnage, ie in the same way that they're selling 7/10 as the start of this conflict. Survivors of the Holocaust are calling it out

ICC have applied for arrest warrants for the Hamas leadership, Netanyahu and Gallant

About as likely to be an accident as Prigozhin's plane crash

Well Israel have qualified for the Eurovision final. They qualify alongside a screaming witch from Ireland and a bloke from Finland performing without trousers or pants on.

"Extremists on both sides" as one of the daughters of the Israeli hostages put it in a recent BBC article. There's currently an urgent question on Gaza in the commons. You can visibily see Andrew Mitchell squirming at times, they know full well what's going on.

http://Evidence, eyewitnesses challenge Falter’s claims he was stopped for just crossing road – SKWAWKBOX

Indeed, although massacres like 7/10 have been organised/carried out by both sides in years gone by. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre (The gory details in the foreign reporters testimonies's section is sadly all too familiar) Thatcher pulled our arms exports to Israel around that time because she prioritised regional stability over Israel's self-defence. Then again unlike our current generation of politicians she had a backbone.

Most of Hamas' senior leadership/capability/support aren't in Palestine. One potential issue is Iran/Hezbollah/etc/etc. waiting to send the cavalry in. They don't exactly need to start a recruitment campaign for a sizable insurgency. The US found that one out 20 years ago

google "Arab Spring"

So why are Israel reacting in the way they are? National security? Fine. They've got every justification to go after Hamas themselves. The problem is they are doing far more than that, and a lot of it counter-productive. The US and all of Israel's allies are openly condemning how they are going about the war, millions of Israelis want Netanyahu out and openly protesting against him, IDF soldiers are being videoed cheering whilst they blow up Palestinian schools weeks after the last militant has left the building, the WCK boss is now openly saying that Israel are deliberately targeting aid vehicles. Do you not see that the problem might just go beyond Hamas here? You don't need to get defensive with 'simplistic hippy' comments, you can do better than that

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68722308 A good summary

A lot of these people have also had Israelis kick them and their families/neighbours out of their homes and bulldoze them to the ground, will full support from the Israeli government/military. What would you have done? Israel have spent years employing the tactic of gradual incursion, and Hamas' countered with an attack of which the whole aim is escalation and destabilising the entire region. Of course Israel needed to respond to the October attacks, but doing the same thing that has failed time and time again isn't likely to solve it. What Netanyahu's currently doing is what created Hamas in the first place. It's one reason why thousands of Israelis are currently protesting in Israel calling for Netanyahu's head. They'll get rid of Hamas and create something worse in the process.

He didn't really do too much wrong today but he's simply continually playing at a level that is above him. Friends of mine on the dark side were genuinely baffled when we signed him, they didn't think him good enough for league one

Bazunu may be a league 2 standard keeper but a draw wasn't enough today. We had to win to have any chance of automatic promotion.

The last 5 mins of injury time summed that game up. From the start we needed to win to have any chance of automatic promotion. It's 2-2, 93rd minute and we have an attacking throw in. Literally no urgency whatsoever, we took at least half a minute to take the throw in. Ipswich go up the other end, drive forward, put a few passes together and find a way (assisted by our ball watching defence) That's the difference. Ipswich wanted it more.

Hamas' leadership currently live in complete safety in Qatar Israel have been putting the needle in for decades (extremist settler violence, illegal settlement expansion) which actually led to Hamas's creation in the first place in the 80s. The 7/10 attacks were a calculated and carefully planned escalation in the existing conflict, and were carried out with significant external logistical and military support. It was sophisticated, deliberately brutal and was helped by levels of military intelligence which dwarfed anything that Israel anticipated. The whole idea was to provoke this response from Israel. The US are trying (and failing) to reign in the Israelis because support for Hamas has surged since Israel responded to the 7/10 attacks, a group that not long ago was making rockets out of drain pipes and fertilizer. The problem is going way beyond Gaza and Hamas.

Putting the rivalry aside my Pompey supporting friends thought he was a bizarre signing for us. He's doing his best but he's constantly playing at a level that is above him. For every decent save he makes there's 2 of 3 howlers/shots that he really should be doing better with.

The double standards after the condemnation of Russia-Ukraine a year or two back aren't hard to find The attempted cancelling of Russia/#standwithUkraine was never about humanity, it was about money and power ie. the usual. We currently have over 800 serving officials openly stating their own governments positions on Israel-Gaza war could amount to complicity in "grave violations of international law". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68177357

Yes But are you referring to Hamas, who carried out the attack? Or the vast majority of the 20-25000 Palestinian civilians that Israel have indiscriminately bombed and killed since, that had nothing to do with the attack or Hamas? As for Arab nations potentially 'boycotting', the idea would be so the event(s) descend into farce.