badgerx16

Joe Biden's Twitter account posted this about speaking with the Palestinian Authority's President; "I assured him that we're working with partners in the region to ensure humanitarian supplies reach civilians in Gaza and to prevent the conflict from widening,"

3 expectant fathers are waiting in the delivery suite; one English, one Welsh, and one Pakistani. A doctor comes into the waiting room and announces that there has been a mixup with the babies and asks that the fathers go into the nursery to see if they can pick out any identifying features indicating which is their child. The englishman says he will go first, and after a couple of minutes comes back holding a baby with obviously darker skin. "Hold on", says the Pakistani father, "that baby has much more in common with me than with you". " I know", replies the Englishman, "but one of those 2 in there is Welsh, and I am not taking any chances".

Thousands of dead Palestinian civilians, a large number of whom were women and children, ( hugely disproportionate to the number of dead Israelis),; illegal occupation of land in direct contradiction of international agreements; withholding basic humanitarian services and human rights. There are plenty of valid reasons to criticise Israel - you don't need to be anti-Semitic.

The problem with that analogy is that Ukraine are the side being attacked by a bigger and stronger neighbour, and threatened with obliteration whilst their territory is occupied and flattened - more akin to the Palestinians. As you say war is a dirty business, and collateral damage is inevitable, but Ukraine are not trying to commit the genocidal destruction of Russia, nor actively seeking to cause civilian casualties.

In which case RM is the perfect manager.

The Israeli air force has bombed Khan Yunis, the supposedly 'safe' southern end of the evacuation route through the Gaza Strip.

Corbyn is, was, and always will be an unelectable prat. I suspect his self perception as a Humanist meant he had to stand up for the great swathes of oppressed people around the globe - without ever considering there might be a bigger picture that politicians need to take account of.

Look beyond the borders of Palestine and Israel and find the puppeteers pulling the strings and serving their own agendas ; Russia, and Iran. Putin wants to distract the West from Ukraine, the Ayatollahs have sworn to eradicate Israel, and Hamas are far too happy to be their proxy.

Are we back on the equivalence of anti-Netanyahu's policies and anti-semitism ?

Because I have nothing else that will fill the dark, cold, lonely days of my pitiful existence, What is your excuse ?

We don't need balance or facts when discussing Israel. Please stay on message. 😉

Why waste so much time and effort arguing on this thread ? Bazunu is our starting keeper for the season and no amount of words on here will change that.

Creature

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.