badgerx16

She wanted me to treat her like a princess, so I married her off to a stranger to strengthen an alliance with Poland.

Not even a little smirk ?

At international sporting events when the national anthems are playing and the effects microphone near the players is out of sync with the sound of the band playing the tune and the crowd singing along.

Looks like he will get his wilderness of rubble.

mermaid

As Timmy Mallett used to say, "I know it's true, I made it up myself".

What happened to sunshine ?

I watched 5 minutes of the program and have no desire to see any more of it.

This is a 2017 map of the West Bank, nominally Palestinian Territory. Not only is a large part of it under direct Israeli control, there is a security barrier running round parts of it that divides Arab communities, and there are over 500 Israeli military checkpoints controling and checking on people's movements. All of the Israeli settlements are in breach of UN resolutions, and Israeli occupation is contrary to the Oslo accords, which seek to enforce the pre 6-day war 1967 borders. Of course Israel has a right to exist, any argument about that went out of the window in 1948, but the Palestinians must also have self-determination on lands they have legislative control over.

I guess that puts you firmly in the "hard of thinking" category. To use your own phraseology, stop being such a cunt.

"Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar has said Israel does not have the right to engage in collective punishment of the Gaza Strip, and has called for restraint from both sides amid the ongoing conflict. But he warned actions leading to the failure of Gaza's only operational power station could "breach international humanitarian law". "To me, it amounts to collective punishment. Cutting off power, cutting off fuel supplies and water supplies, that's not the way a respectable democratic state should conduct itself," Varadkar said." ........................... ""So Israel is under threat. They do have a right to defend themselves, but they don't have the right to breach international humanitarian law," he added. Varadkar also stressed the importance of opening of a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to reach Palestinians." Sounds like he is tune with quite a few on here, so obviously not that smart. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67073970

There were 2 sides to Stalin's terror purges if you want to argue pathetic, childish, irrelevant, and ignorant straw man points.

Are you an above average or below average Saintsweb poster ?

If you watched the Rory Stewart video posted above then this is the interview on CNN he refererred to; https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/08/gps-1008-mustafa-barghouti-on-israels-war-on-hamas.cnn

Find a 'smarter' way to target Hamas such that they can more easily demonstrate that they are taking seriously the limitation of collateral damage ? They have some of the most advanced weapons systems in the World, and in theory they have one of the most sophisticated intelligence agencies. Going in like a bull in a china shop and stating their intention to turn the Strip into a wasteland of rubble looks like they are throwing their weight around because, in truth, they are embarrassed by the failure of said intelligence service to detect the upcoming attacks, and of the control systems along the border to prevent them. Alternatively, find a way for Mossad or somebody related to get at the Hamas leadrership in the Arabian Gulf - cut the head off the snake. ( I'm sure that somewhere out on the Web there will be conspiracy theories being proposed that Netanyahu knew the attacks were coming and, in fact, let them go ahead because he could then claim justification to unleash the full power at his disposal to acheive something he has long espoused ).

What about supporting a country whose air force has reportedly killed 450 children in air raids, ( and counting ), in the last 3 days ? Not all inhabitants of Gaza support Hamas, yet all suffer the Israeli attacks. Responding to terrorism with terrorism will not solve the problem.

Seeing the Aussies on the wrong end of a couple of dodgy TV reviews at the cricket World Cup.

Ask Cruella, who says it is OK to fly Israeli flags but may be criminal incitement to show a Palestinian one.

OK; when Israel bombs a maternity ward it is unfortunate collateral damage ?

When Hamas kills a baby it is terrorism, when Russia bombs a nursery that is terrorism, when Israel bombs a maternity ward that is self defence. Have I got that right ?

UN schools and medical facilities in Gaza being bombed by the Israeli air force, despite all having known geo-located positions.

It is a standard that most major news media outlets try to follow, so that they are seen as being impartial. People being interviewed by them can use the term "terrorist", but journalists will usually try to avoid it - preferring such terms as "militants" or "fighters".

No Government since WW1 has had a majority share of the vote. Most Governments have been based around a 40% vote share. Vote share in no way equates to proportion of seats in the HoC.

Essentially correct; the Privy Council would advise the King as to who might be best able to form a functioning Government, ie if there is a pre-election agreement between 2 parties.. If this is not clear the incumbent PM can be asked to try to form a new minority Government, as happened with Ted Heath in 1974; he could not as the Ulster Unionist MPs refused to work with him, so Harold Wilson formed a Labour minority Government.