Jeff the Chef

Who's downplaying a video of an empty passage with a few dots on a map, lol you are having a laugh.

Hope the IDF keep looking there must be 100's of tunnels, nothing like dragging up old news. The Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels are tunnels across the Gaza–Egypt border, used to bypass the Rafah Border Crossing, which is used for exceptional cases only, when opened at all. The first recorded discovery of a tunnel by Israel was in 1983, after Israel had withdrawn from the Sinai. The border, redrawn in 1982 after the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, divided Rafah into an Egyptian and a Gazan part. The tunnels used to start from the basements of houses in Rafah on the one side of the border and end in houses in Rafah on the other side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_smuggling_tunnels

Of course you have a creditable link the above statement?

Yep, it's a Pixar Movie, especially for Buss Lightyear.

Hang em high, not in this day and age, surely we have moved on a little bit, oh wait, this extract from Wiki sounds not so historic under the present circumstances: While the concept of genocide was formulated by Lemkin in the mid-20th century, the expansion of various European colonial powers, such as the British and the Spanish Empires, and the subsequent establishment of colonies on indigenous territory frequently involved acts of genocidal violence against indigenous groups in the Americas (including Brazil, Paraguay, and the United States), Australia, Africa, and Asia. According to Lemkin, colonization was in itself "intrinsically genocidal", and he saw this genocide as a two-stage process, the first being the destruction of the indigenous population's way of life. In the second stage, the newcomers impose their way of life on the indigenous group. According to David Maybury-Lewis, imperial and colonial forms of genocide are enacted in two main ways, either through the deliberate clearing of territories of their original inhabitants to make them exploitable for purposes of resource extraction or colonial settlements, or through enlisting indigenous peoples as forced laborers in colonialist or imperialist projects of resource extraction. The designation of specific events as genocidal is often controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

Looks like Bi-Bi might need to uprate the Irondome System before he unleashes the Dogs of War on Hezbollah:

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has threatened an “extremely powerful” response to attacks by Hezbollah from Lebanon, which have escalated in recent days. A few hours after Netanyahu spoke, drones fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Hurfeish, in the Upper Galilee region, which has a largely Druze population, injuring 11 Israelis, one critically. There were several explosions and reports that air raid alarms had not been activated. Earlier this week Hezbollah launched a wave of attacks that set off substantial fires, which were fanned by dry and powerful winds. Television footage from the area of Kiryat Shmona showed firestorms engulfing nearby forests. Emergency services struggled for two days to bring the fires under control. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/netanyahu-israel-hezbollah-attacks

An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed a "Hamas compound". Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Hamas media office said at least 27 people were killed and accused Israel of committing a "horrific massacre". Ambulances and rescue teams have been rushing the wounded and dead to a nearby hospital. Footage on social media showed destroyed classrooms and dead bodies wrapped in shrouds at a morgue. "Enough war! We have been displaced dozens of times. They killed our children while they were sleeping," a woman injured in the attack screamed in one video. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas media office, rejected Israel's claims that the UN school had hidden a Hamas command post. "The occupation uses ... false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people," he told Reuters. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said jets had conducted a "precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crggq0jygq6o

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Americans trapped in war-torn Sudan last year needed a way out of the country, but the U.S. Marine Corps, the go-to service for such rescues, couldn’t help. Typically, this kind of mission would be standard for the Navy and Marine Corps’ amphibious ready group and Marine expeditionary unit, made up of 2,300 Marines aboard three ships who are trained to fight their way into and evacuate citizens from dangerous locations. Instead, as violence surged, the Pentagon relied on drones to monitor a 500-mile escape route from the capital of Khartoum to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. For the Americans who fled to the coast, the Pentagon sent an auxiliary transport ship to shuttle them to safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was a complicated and risky self-evacuation. At the same time, off the coast of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the Bataan ARG and 26th MEU were conducting a noncombatant evacuation simulation — training for the very operation Americans in Sudan needed. But the group stayed put because it wasn’t yet certified for global missions. The Navy didn’t have another set of ready amphibious ships to deploy from the East Coast on short notice. All of this followed a similar situation a few months earlier, when service leaders were unable to send a team to Turkey and Syria to provide aid after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the region. Maj. Gen. Roger Turner, the Marine Corps’ operations division director, told Defense News the naval forces “have this razor-thin capacity” with amphibious ships, and when emergencies arise, “there’s no capacity to react.” https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/05/02/marines-want-31-amphibious-ships-the-pentagon-disagrees-now-what/

Yes, I hope you're right, but what happens next, rinse and repeat in 2/5/10 years?

All the bad people on both sides are excuses for human beings, but the fact still remains 7/10 happened, answer me this Brian how many years has Israel managed to fool the world that they are totally innocent of any provocation? As for the so called conspiracy theories, the propaganda machine of Israel is slowly but surely being exposed and the rest of the human race are seeing them for what they are.

And lets not all forget the Gaza strip was all sweetness and light before Hamas attacked Israel before 7/10. Can anybody tell me what you call a shoe mender?

Crying out loud, is there a case before the ICJ? Are there pending charges for the leaders of both sides of this war at the ICC? Yes, the hostages may/have been horrible abused and killed. How many innocent Palestinians are dead, mutilated, buried under the wanton destruction of Gaza, will we ever know the full figure? You may be proud, I'm sick to the teeth of the lot of it.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort. Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation. The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel, four Israeli officials said. The ministry allocated about $2 million to the operation and hired Stoic, a political marketing firm in Tel Aviv, to carry it out, according to the officials and the documents. The campaign began in October and remains active on the platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments. The accounts focused on U.S. lawmakers, particularly ones who are Black and Democrats, such as Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader from New York, and Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, with posts urging them to continue funding Israel’s military. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU0.K-9d.nc6wnV7jy8jG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=i&sgrp=c-cb

Because that is the accusation/charge: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) Palestine files an application for permission to intervene and a declaration of intervention in the proceedings, invoking Articles 62 and 63 of the Statute of the Court https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240603-pre-02-00-en.pdf

There is no Genocide till the ICJ ends their deliberations, then there is the ICC to punish the preparators, hope I live long enough to see it. The wheels of justice are turning, slowly but surely.

2.5 hours away, 5k baht rtn, be great if it gets to 25% of Macau, to get my poker fix.

I thought he was a small guy, 5' 7" and 10 stone wet? Opps, beg pardon, you said cult, my dyslexia playing up again 😉

The United States of Israel/America? The House voted Tuesday to pass a bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials – House Republicans’ response to the court seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC’s targeting of Netanyahu has sparked widespread backlash from Republicans and Democrats in Congress. President Joe Biden has also forcefully denounced the ICC move, saying “there is no equivalence” between Israel and Hamas, but the administration has said it does not support the GOP-led effort to sanction the court. It is unlikely that the Senate will take up the sanctions bill. The House passed the bill in a 247 to 155 vote, with 42 Democrats joining Republicans in support. Two GOP members voted present. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview last month that the court is seeking arrest warrants for the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. According to the legislative text, the bill would impose sanctions on individuals “engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.” The sanctions include prohibiting US property transactions and blocking and revoking visas. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/house-vote-icc-sanctions/index.html?Date=20240604&Profile=CNN

Biden: People have 'every reason' to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war The US president said the Israeli prime minister seems to want the war in Gaza to continue for his political survival. US President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given people "every reason" to believe he is prolonging the war on Gaza to save his political career. Biden's remarks, published on Tuesday in an interview with Time Magazine, echoed sentiments regularly voiced by analysts and western officials, suggesting that Netanyahu believes his political fortunes are best served by continuing the war. "There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion," Biden said, although his administration had just a day earlier laid the blame for a delay in a ceasefire squarely on Hamas. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-biden-every-reason-believe-netanyahu-prolonging-conflict

Good arm, sign her up for the cricket team.

Bit of bad news for the people of Clacton, the waters nearly reached France and being used to bring their next lot of carers in. Nige is just there for the beer.

100 meters away, lol, seen bigger fireworks go off, was there in 71/72 and 73, nail bombed twice, had to pick up limbs and pieces of flesh and bone at Belfast bus station after "Bloody Friday", witnessed a comrade top himself with an SLR and numerous other incidents, you never forget. Probably why I'm such a peacenik now

I'll admit to being a shout it from the rooftops Remainer, but TBH it made me get off my behind and get out of the Parish, where incidentally Rishi was my MP. Now happy as a pig in clover in darkest Thailand, so now I couldn't give a stuff what's happening in the old Country, which to me has gone so far downhill whoever gets elected is going to have trouble pushing it back up again.

On the money, Bob 😂