Elfin

6 hours ago, Judo Chop said:

Imagine if the people who care so much for the Palestinians demanded that the PLO and HAMAS built hospitals, schools, universities, public housing etc with all that aid money, rather than using it to build terror tunnels & pay terrorist stipends?

That would make all Palestinians better off but the name of the game is to demonize Israel. The Palestinians are merely pawns to their supporters.

Judo Chop, you may have noticed that Israel has twice in recent years bombed the s#@t out of hospitals, schools, universities and homes in the Gaza strip under the excuse that these institutions stockpile weapons. If they rebuilt them (that is if the Israeli blockade would allow the required building materials into Gaza to enable this), sometime in the near future, Israel again would find an excuse to have a live fire exercise to bomb the poop out of them again with munitions that are near their expiry date, and to give their miliatary a real life training exercise.

The Palestinians just want their lands and homes in the West Bank and within Israel given back to them with a right of return.

BDS

22 minutes ago, amirravon said:

God bless the Israeli Defense forces.

May God curse the IDF

BDS

15 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Israel is currently a mainly Jewish state and they have tried and do currently have democracy , been that way for 70 odd years .

Israel is a democracy in name only. Is there freedom of speech in Israel now?

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

These group of people have been butting their collective heads against a concrete walls for generations now 

The only time I have seen heads butting against a concrete wall was at the Western wall :)

How can the heavily armed IDF justify the use of live bullets against unarmed civilians? The Palestinians are well in their rights to demand to return to their land and homes.

BDS.

Morch, if you were paying attention, I was responding to Jingthing's comments. If you accuse me of being off topic, then so is Jingthing. Correct?

Oh, and I did not quote any figures.

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

" we will come down hard on rouge officials "

I assume you mean that they are aligned with the Redshirts?

3 hours ago, car720 said:

Unfortunately not true.

I live in China and I can walk down the street at 3am in the morning without fear of molestation or mugging.  As can any woman.  The people here are genuinely friendly and hospitable.

The individual in China is much wealthier than the individual in the USA.

I have to agree with you car720. I feel much safer here in China than I did on the streets of Sydney after dark. I still enjoy most of my freedoms here and I have lived quite comfortably in whichever Chinese city I have been working in.

10 hours ago, madmitch said:

Boom time in the digital age, yet they're still using audio-tape for interview purposes!

It's a bit like when the DNA sample was all used up! 

12 hours ago, ezzra said:

now that the palestinians

will be 'refugees' any longer after being one for 75 years.....

Can you please explain the meaning of this clause?

No black paint needed then 

Coups go better with Coke! 

A nonsense post=something you disagree with?

Morch the pro-semetic wicket keeper. I was waiting for you to chime in. The figures that I saw (and I can't find that source at the moment) put Israel's military personnel (including all types in different services) at around a million people.

I will try and locate my source tomorrow-maybe it included all forms of weapons and infrastructure too.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Could it be that it's a tiny country

Here we go again with that "little country" with the victim's label.

It is so cliched Jingthing and no-one is buying it anymore.

Tell me how big Israel's military is again.

Mars-the new Promised Land! 

One-way only tickets are now available.

Seeya!

5 hours ago, Tracyb said:

Have you seen the BRV?  A bit smaller and a lot less expensive!

We  just took delivery of a 7 seater B-RV last Thursday and it has already done a weekend trip away with 7 people. We are very happy with it so far and it has lots of nifty features.

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

it's very clear that the world is worried and afraid of the Arab's world

wreath and retaliations, including acts of terrorisms, is this the kind of

world we like to live in?....

Would you prefer to live in a world where occupation and oppression of the indigenous population occurs, or where extrajudicial killings occur with impunity, or where children are arrested and beaten, then tried in a military court without legal representation or having their parents permitted to be present?

Do not try and portray the Israelis as the good guys, the victims who are being attacked by evil Arabs.

I am not sure what you mean by "afraid of the Arab's world wreath"-afraid of flowers???

Because the Thais have a different view on life and death from what we normally do, they probably regard road deaths as a form of natural wastage-a form of population control. That could be why there is very little enforcement to reduce the road toll. 

7 hours ago, franklnooner said:

Happy New year

Let the killings begin.

 

And may the odds be ever in your favour.

Of course East Jerusalem should be recognised as the Palestinian capital as well as Palestine being recognised as a state. After all, it is only fair to do this.

3 hours ago, Colabamumbai said:

We will have to DNA the butts and bottles to see if they belonged  to Thais or Foreignets.

The DNA will probably match people from Myanmar

8 minutes ago, White Boong said:

OMG they cannot even drive Cars or Motorbikes how in the Bloody hell are they go with  a Bullet Train roaring down the tracks .They dont stop at Crosswalks do you think they are going to stop at Train Crossings watch the road toll skyrocket.

The "Bullet" train will probably be built on a dedicated elevated track so there will not be any crossings-maybe it will even be caged as well?

1 hour ago, jaiyen said:

Oh !  I thought we were going to get a crappy Chinese train system.

To be fair Jaiyen, I travel on the high speed trains throughout China regularly and they are far from being crappy. They are maintained to a high level and are 99.9% on time-like clockwork. The new Shanghai-Beijing train is permitted to travel at 350 kph while other CRH  trains travel at 300 kph in complete safety. There has only been one major accident with these trains about 5 years ago, so if the Chinese also train the Thais to a high standard, then the Thai trains will hopefully be far from crappy too.