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Whilst goods can enter from Egypt, telecommunications, power and water are mostly controlled by Israel. Also, regarding the possibility of people leaving Gaza via that route, Egypt are reluctant to permit that as they fear it will escalate the problems they already have with rebels in northern Sinai.

You do understand what powers the Speaker has ? Also ihis election is an indication of the direction of travel for the GOP - Mike Johnson was one of the prime movers in the Trump election denial, and then there is the irony of his getting elected instead of Jim Jordan, who was seen as too extreme.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

Yes, but generally with one sect targeting another. One issue with Islam is that a lot of it's teaching is left open to interpretation rather than having a figurehead to guide the congregation, such as the Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury. Thankfully, Christianity has largely grown out of it's fanatical fundamentalist phase, but it does have quite a history.

Same-sex marriage and any form of access to abortion are near the top of his agenda, for starters. He also believes that the Bible should be a much more formal basis for Government, rejecting the separation of Church and State.

Opposing rights for gays or women - are we talking about the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, who wants to more closely align the direction of US politics to Old Testament Biblical teachings ?

It makes a questionable interpretation of a peaceful religion violent.

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And Israel to remove the West Bank settlers, military checkpoints, and the security barrier, leaving the Palestinians there in control of their own destinies ?

My wife cooked non-chicken chicken a few weeks ago, just to try it out. I thought it was pretty poor, and to me more like the fish in fish fingers.

Turkish is waaaay ahead of you,

Stupid twats.

No idea, but the quote said "the whole family is gone ".

The BBC quoting the AFP press agency at 9:26 this morning; "A video circulating on social media shows a car doing a three-point turn after approaching a tank, only for it to open fire and destroy the vehicle. "He’s gone, the whole family is gone," shouts one of those at the scene, as he speeds away and yells at other vehicles to turn around" Note; it is now reported that the road is open again.

Yes, and they shelled the roads to the south, and also the refugee camps in the south. They know full well that not every non-combatant in the northern part of the Strip was able, let alone willing, to evacuate.

6 months to 5 years. This thread will be approaching the Pompey Takeover Saga in size.

The things you can get away with when talking to children. Yesterday we had our son's 2 kids dropped off whilst he went to Bloomfield Road with some work colleagues. When he was late getting back we told his 3 year old daughter he was stuck on the motorway. ( Which would be a very roundabout route to take ). Eventually he got to ours about 2 hours late and she asked him if he had got stuck on the motorway. "Yes" he replied, "I got stuck at the Royal Oak services, then Ma Kelly's services, then The Railway services".

People at the gym doing weights in front of a mirror when you know full well they are not watching their technique, just admiring their reflection.

The difference between Gen Z and Boomers; Taylor Swift writes whiney songs about her break-up, Stevie Nicks made Lyndsey Buckingham sing the lyrics she penned about how big a bastard he was.

We have 3 dogs. The "treat" is that we will give those that knock on our door a head start to get back out of the gate, the "trick" being I might be lying about the head start. ( The dogs just want to play, but with one being a Deerhound and another is a Newfoundland, their size and bark are the things you notice ).

ISIS are a bit different to Hamas and the other Palestinian groups. Rather than have a specific target, Israel, to act against, ISIS are a concept whose central point of existence is nihilism in the name of their interpretation of Islam. Disparate Islamic terror groups around the World will swear allegiance to IS without forming part of a coherent campaign; as well as the rump that is still active in the Middle East, there is a large region of sub-Saharan Africa that is plagued with IS affiliates, there are also groups in places like Indonesia and the Phillipines.

Whelk, I don't disagree with you over Hamas, I just don't see the ultimate solution to the problem of what to do in that region coming off the weapons mount of an IDF fighter jet.

And that is the key point. The next round of violence is waiting somewhere down the road, and all the current action will do is make that time even more deadly.

If they are targeting the tunnel systems they are more than likely killing the hostages.

Do you think eliminating the Gaza Strip and it's entire population will make Israel safe from future terrorism ?