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Yep. I think the flattened Gaza is now some massive carpet to sweep all the Israeli government/IDF (lighthouse friendly description) war crimes under.

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Pretty much. There's a decent ISH article from Faisal Islam on the BBC site on it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp34nkj1kv2o

You would hope.

Media

Weston's attempt at showing a double standard rather demonstrated double standards. Nowt wrong in highlighting that.

Both conflicts are awful and need to stop, but they're different in so many ways - different scales of death, different motivation, and different levels of international support/condemnation. Israeli attacks have killed or injured at least 100 children in the last day in Gaza, and 2/3 are still being forcibly displaced. What's happening in Ukraine is awful, but pointing to the religion of the victim children as you have is poor form.

Only 8 days to go...

I've just looked. I wish I hadn't. Horrific. In other news, cracking response from China. Hard to understand how Trump could take issue with 54% tariffs being met with 54% tariffs. That's actual reciprocation, not his made up bullshit.

Hiding after the shit deal they landed us with.

Alas he's either directly or indirectly given the green light to step it up. Carnage.

Almost 1700 now. S&P and NASDAQ even worse in % terms.

I will try to avoid logging on to Hargreaves Lansdowne tomorrow. Yesterday's announcement, and recent uncertainty, has shortened my retirement for sure.

Yep. The potential is there, but it's never been fulfilled, and is very much going in the wrong direction. I had a couple of hours to kill in Southampton this morning while waiting for a vehicle repair. There was a skirmish near the Marlands, homeless dotted everywhere, empty units, and it just looks increasingly disjointed and tired. I saw a few tourists (Norwegian I think) wearing lanyards near the bargate - Christ knows what they made of the place.

Houdini, Blaine, etc, would be proud of that level of sleight of hand.

Interesting to see the world reaction to this. Seems to be based on largely made up numbers factoring in VAT and other nonsense. I vote for simply mirroring the US tariffs - he wants reciprocation, then he gets reciprocation.

Err. Practice/preach/double standards, etc.

I think you're (mis) interpreting things Hamas/Al-Qassam are not representative of all Palestinians. The Israeli government/IDF are not representative of all Israeli's. Nobody on here has suggested otherwise and I'm in no doubt that the masses also understand that. People refer to Hamas as they are the governing political party behind the awful behaviour of the Al-Qassam brigade. It makes sense to refer to them simply as Hamas. You do. There is no single governing party in Israel. Addressing the government machine behind the awful behaviour of the IDF by reference to the governing parties of Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism, the Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit and Noam, would be a bit of a mouthful. Israel or the Israeli government seems a sensible moniker instead. If you insist on referring to the military (IDF) as responsible, I note you have never referenced Al-Qassam. Using your words, double standards could be at play, although I'm in no doubt that you're in fact just being sensible. However, you seemingly can't accept other being doing the same in reverse, probably because it doesn't suit your narrative.

I'm not sure that you actually read, or understood, what he posted. Regardless, your point was bloody pedantic. Extending your pointless out, people who complain about the "military" side of Hamas are in fact complaining about the actions of the Al-Qassam brigade but nobody has been daft enough to insist on your sort of distinction, as we all know who is being referred to.

My thoughts exactly.

Mason

I assume he's referring to the fella clinging on to power, arresting journalists, etc, rather than people protesting about that.

Shot

You'd said before that you were on a mission. That's a proper effort mate 👏

Sales are down 49% on this time last year which is nice.