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5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

You asked a question, I provided a reply from the White House, an authoritative source. 

 

"You can absolutely... decapitate their leadership, dry up their resources, eliminate their infrastructure, their ability to operate, store weapons, and train troops."

Tell me, when the Iraq war was ongoing, did you accept White House statements as being authoritative? Naive much?

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   You would enjoy if I personally suffered misfortune , like in real life .

I wouldn't enjoy anyone else's misfortune, not even Palestinian  supporters .

So, you support a terror group that kills and rapes innocent people and takes babies hostages and keeps them and you enjoy it when other people "come up croppers" .

   Its plain to see that we are on different sides off the conflict .

One side is evil and nasty, and the other side isn't 

I'm not about to engage in giving you a course in remedial reading. My schadenfreude, if it exists, would be from the fact that your predictions have failed and your ignorance exposed. Much the way that I might have enjoyed the discomfort of the neocons when their predictions about Iraq failed.

19 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Oh..... ok I look forward to a third then, maybe

Another deflection.

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

There's no doubt about that, right?

 

Nope. From just 3 days ago.

 

"You can absolutely... decapitate their leadership, dry up their resources, eliminate their infrastructure, their ability to operate, store weapons, and train troops."

 

 

It's not news or significant when a Biden Administration official continues with its policy of supporting Israel. What is interesting and significant is the breaks that are occurring with more and more frequency. And as even Kirby noted "And it is the how that the president was focused on, the way these operations are being prosecuted, and the additional harm that it being brought upon civilian aid workers and innocent Gazans."

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Don't you support the Palestinians ?

You = your group and not you personally, as you well know .

You did seem to happy about Hamas not being wiped out completely and the hostages still be hostages and the IDF retreating 

I would certainly have grounds for schadenfreude as the predictions of you and your fellow travelers come up croppers.

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   No, Hamas hasn't been defeated yet , you have won on that point as well . 

Your terror group are still alive and you still are holding hostages , including babies .

Enjoy your victorious celebrations . 

I'm holding hostages? How did you find that out? It hasn't been easy locatng kosher meals for them here in Thailand. But I'm doing my best. 

Anyway, you got any different approaches at deflection to come up with? Or are you just going to keep on trying to make it personal?

7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

2 replies to the same post......lol

 

Why are you asking me how the hostage recovery is going, why not read the topic your on for the latest updates. Enough of your baiting

That I replied with two separate posts is relevant how? More deflection from you.

And it was you who raised the issues of the hostages in your reply. Hoist by your own petard much?

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Israel has failed on that , I expect that most if not all of the hostages are dead by now , any hostages left alive now would be a bonus 

But at least it has succeeded in destroying Hamas... Or is about to... There's no doubt about that, right?

9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Up to you, why not write a topic on it and name a day?

 We will not rest until the Bibas family & each and every one of the hostages is home.

 

 

How's that hostage recovery going so far? You don't seem to recognize the fact it's not just Hamas but the Netanyahu government that is being held responsible by an increasing number of Israelis for the failure to obtain the return of the hostages.

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Up to you, why not write a topic on it and name a day?

 

There is no context. There is no justification. There are only those who kidnap babies and mothers from their homes and hold them captive in dark tunnels. Hamas started this war 6 months ago when they massacred, raped and kidnapped over 1200 Israelis. We will not rest until the Bibas family & each and every one of the hostages is home.

 

 

More emotional and evasion from  you. Not even Israel's staunchest allies believe Israel's claims anymore about its concern for non-combatants. 

I've seen no evidence of any contrition from Israelis for the harm wreaked upon Palestinians because of Israel's support of Hamas. 

40 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Now the lame attempts at telling me what my emotions are consisted of..........

 

Six months after October 7, it still feels like Day 1 for hostage families

 

Life changed in Israel on October 7 last year. The unexpected and overwhelming assault by at least 1,500 Hamas fighters, pouring into Israel by land, sea and even paragliders, killed about 1,200 people, Israeli authorities said. More than 250 people were taken hostage and moved to Hamas’ Gaza stronghold.

Much has happened in the six months since. The massacres at a music festival in the desert and kibbutz communities prompted Israel to declare war on Hamas, leading to air and ground attacks that have devastated Gaza and the lives of the more than two million people for whom it is home.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/06/middleeast/israeli-hostage-families-war/index.html

 

What day do you suggest we adopt to memorialize the thousands and thousands of non-combatant Gazans who died and are maimed because of Israeli brutality?

Virtually none of Israel's allies are buying anymore its claim that it did its best to avoid inflicting casualties and starvation on civilians.

On 4/3/2024 at 12:34 PM, Hanaguma said:

Please, enough of the hysterical references to genocide and holocaust. Neither of those are happening here.  Even using the bs numbers issued by Hamas, something like 20,000 civilians have been killed. In 6 months.  It is an amazing accomplishment that the IDF has kept casualties so low while fighting a terrorist occupation in a congested area. 

 

Don't forget that civilian casualties would be ZERO if Hamas surrendered and released their hostages. Zero. 

About those hysterical references to the Holocaust.. you mean like repeating the mantra that October the 7th is the day that the most Jews were killed since the Holocaust?

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

There are lots of ways to make a point. Sarcasm is one of them

 

Yea, cheap lowest form of wit usually made when you have nothing else to add as proved in your case.

 

Especially on this 6 month anniversary of the horrors of Oct 7th.

 

More empty emotionalism. Another evasion of facts. 

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

so, all you have is sarcasm on your return

There are lots of ways to make a point. Sarcasm is one of them. There are also lots of way to evade addressing a point.  Which is what you've just done.

Sarcasm is what the simpleminded quote you offered deserves. 

"On this somber occasion, our nation should reexamine who we can count on to be on our side and who stands on the side of the terrorists."

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

"On this somber occasion, our nation should reexamine who we can count on to be on our side and who stands on the side of the terrorists."

Yes, even the United States is now migrating to the side of the terrorists. Poor, innocent Israel. 

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

"On this somber occasion, our nation should reexamine who we can count on to be on our side and who stands on the side of the terrorists."

 

https://twitter.com/SenTedBuddNC/status/1776956883317731714

 

The Israeli invasion of Gaza looks to be an even bigger success than the Iraq War was...for Israel's enemies.

In Six Months, Everything Has Changed for Israel
Nation that was building new alliances before Oct. 7 now appears as isolated as ever

Today, after a bloody attack that might have brought it the world’s sympathy, Israel is closer to being a global pariah than ever before...

“Israel’s longevity is in question for the first time since its birth,” said Benny Morris, an Israeli historian. The only time Israel faced a similar existential threat, he said, was in its war for independence in 1948, when it battled five Arab countries and local Palestinian militias. 

https://archive.ph/LWU1m

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/in-six-months-everything-has-changed-for-israel-5c5130e9?mod=world_lead_story

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

"On this somber occasion, our nation should reexamine who we can count on to be on our side and who stands on the side of the terrorists."

 

https://twitter.com/SenTedBuddNC/status/1776956883317731714

 

Very believable.

Or maybe not:

Israel’s major ground war in Gaza is over; the state of war inflicted by Hamas is not
Sunday’s withdrawal of IDF ground forces from Khan Younis marks the end of so-called high-intensity conflict, though Hamas is still standing, and still holding 129 Oct. 7 hostages

Is this how the war ends? Not with a bang, or even a whimper, but with the IDF pulling its ground forces out of Khan Younis, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserting, in defiance of reality, that Hamas has “stopped functioning as a military organization throughout the Gaza Strip,” contradicting himself in the next breath, and clarifying a few hours later?...

As Israel on Sunday marked six months since the October 7 massacre, the two prime declared goals of the war — destroying Hamas’s military capabilities and bringing home the remaining 129 hostages abducted that day — are patently unfulfilled...

As retired general Israel Ziv — a former IDF operations chief who plunged back into battle on October 7, driving down south to see what he could do to help turn back the Hamas terror onslaught — told a Channel 12 interviewer soon after Gallant spoke, “in these very hours” Khan Younis is going “back into Hamas hands.” And in the absence of any kind of alternate leadership, “Hamas’s control in the Strip continues.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-major-ground-war-in-gaza-is-over-the-state-of-war-inflicted-by-hamas-is-not/

Can anyone recommend a good swimming instructor for a 9 year old child?

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. I had a look through the article but it doesn't say anywhere that I read that Ocean temperatures are rising due to man-made carbon dioxide:

 

You really need to use links that prove your point.

I believe that this person has me on ignore. So someone may want to pass along this passage that comes from the article in question.  

"Adding further greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warms the ocean cool skin layer, which in turn reduces the amount of heat flowing out of the ocean. Reducing the heat lost to the atmosphere allows the oceans to steadily warm over time - as has been observed over the last half century."

https://skepticalscience.com/How-Increasing-Carbon-Dioxide-Heats-The-Ocean.html

It should be pointed out that this is the 2nd paragraph in the article. 

3 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

International Law?  From the UN? Do all countries abide by UN "Laws"?

No, not from the UN. Basically from treaties.

"Treaties are primary sources of international law. Conventional international law is based on consent of state parties and as such treaties applies only between those consenting parties. In determining treaty application, check to see which state parties have both signed and ratified the treaties"

https://libguides.uclawsf.edu/international-law/treaties#:~:text=Treaties are primary sources of,signed and ratified the treaties

The study I cited earlier from the CATO institute has been updated. Here is a summary of the most important findings

"According to Nowrasteh's findings from 2012 to 2022, undocumented immigrants have a homicide conviction rate 14% below that of native-born Americans...

Most of the data on crime and immigration status in the U.S. comes from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the only agency that keeps such detailed records. Texas has the nation's second-highest population of undocumented immigrants after California, Nowrahsteh said, adding that he believes national data would be similar."

https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-have-low-homicide-conviction-rate-setting-record-straight-illegal-immigrant

And here is a link to the study itself.

Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Homicide Conviction Rate: Setting the Record Straight on Illegal Immigrant Crime

https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-have-low-homicide-conviction-rate-setting-record-straight-illegal-immigrant

Lots of interesting data there.

6 minutes ago, G_Money said:

You again.  I actually expected something better from you.

 

I noticed you really enjoy taking words and making a new interpretation out of it.  So it meets your agenda, naturally.

What exactly was the insult?  He chose his name, I didn’t.  Complain to him.  I commended him.  A compliment.

 

Suprised you didn’t ask the OP for the stats.  Or is that only reserved for Trumpers.

Congratulating someone on the aptness of name that was obviously meant as a joke would be irrelevant even if it were meant as a compliment. 

I have offered data to you. In return you offer rants. Yours is the disingenuousness of a child. Grow up.

5 hours ago, G_Money said:

A citizen of the world.  No need for a passport.  Until it’s time for the benefits.

 

The illegals entering the USA southern border are not refugees.

 

Your board name was well chosen.  I commend you.

Always a mark of someone who has nothing rational to offer, that they offer insults instead.

5 hours ago, G_Money said:

Random?  Tell that to the dead person or their families.  Make sure you tell them it’s cherry picked.  Better yet, what if you were the one murdered?  Still have the same kumbaya attitude.

 

 The fact is the murder and other heinous crimes would not of happened if the border was properly enforced and the illegal aliens were not given a free pass in.  

 

 

Thanks for the emotionalism and irrationality. Your argument would work just as well (or poorly) for aliens who were living in the US legally. Do you think it would make a difference to a family if they were told that the person who killed their daughter was in the country legally? Maybe they'd break out a bottle of champagne.

The fact is that these people come here to fill  jobs that no one else wants to take. Without them, important sectors of the economy would suffer.

6 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Must be on his mother's side. Not surprised he has kept it quiet with all the positions he has held. 

Do you know his daughter, Bathsheba? She's also a US diplomat. 

As the article noted, Crocker said his mother attended church less frequently than his father. Not that she didn't attend at all. Not surprising that you would indulge in baseless antisemitic speculation.