thaibeachlovers

I love hot dogs, always have, always will. I got this far without a heart attack, despite eating them for 50 years, so you are just making that up. Just reading this thread makes me want one right now, so to the freezer I go. Yummy.

To the poster that gave me a confused emoji, do you think I should be forced to get something injected into my body that I do not want? Do you support dictatorship? Do you believe propaganda?

He might have just lost the next election ( hopefully ).

Because it is?

I worked in Saudi for years, and spoke Arabic, plus looked after hundreds of them, but I never heard “Allaha Akhbar” or “Allahu Akhbar” or “Bismillah nir Rahman nir Rahim”.

It could be that they remind Arabs of their impotence against the crusaders, or they may like that Palestine is a running sore against israel.

It's not, but it sure is doing that to the other side. Even now there is a chance for redemption, but if it ends the way I think netanyahu and his cabal want, I doubt israel will ever be regarded without disdain again by most.

Even israelis want to stop netanyahu.

Given the israeli representative shredding the UN Charter, perhaps they should be given a divorce. I'd support every country that doesn't want to have the US veto everything setting up an alternate UN that doesn't have a security council or a veto, obviously not in the US. Then they could sanction israel as much as they like. The present one is useless at stopping conflicts anyway, so what use is it?

Correct. We ( myself when I lived there ) have the right to comply with whatever idiocies the immigration office can dream up to make it harder to extend and stay, and to pay for the privilege of being jerked about. We have the right to support a wife/ gf and her family/ actual husband at great expense to ourselves till she kicks us out. We have the right to be charged more at national parks. We have the right to be scammed, etc etc etc.

WOW!!!!!!!! Have to agree with you.

Never unless a citizen, and no citizenship for illegals.

Good. It should be a choice.

I was responding to your chart detailing what Russia has lost, not going into a debate about what winning means.

I agree. The writing on the wall has been visible for a long while now. Seems the woke and the luvvies have won and the west is doomed because of it. Any that speak sense now are shouted down and neutralised ( or should that be neutered? ).

Hmmmmm. Seems that Ukraine's reputation as supremely corrupt are not without foundation.

Denys Yaroslavskyi is a brave man to speak so blatantly against the regime. He can be posted to a less desirable position.......................................... Re the OP, is the narrative that the Russians are losing being discarded? I dare say no threads like this would have been on here a couple years ago.

BS. They could have negotiated before it started.

LOL. The only thing that counts at the end is who won the war.

LOL. If the aim of the incursion is to destroy infrastructure and make Gaza uninhabitable, they need to have a broad based attack. Had the israelis wished to use a more targeted policy they could have done so from the start. Saying otherwise is ignoring reality, IMO. They have never displayed any concern at killing civilians in the past, using the IMO BS excuse of human shields. Even the excuse of "eliminating Hamas" is IMO BS as they are creating new recruits every day, and the hatred Palestinians now feel for israelis will never go away. Welcome to fear and loathing for generations to come.

IMO Milley is an idiot. To kill that many more would require a commensurate increase in the number of fighters, but he doesn't mention that, trying to imply that the same number of Hamas could kill so many more. “If you take 1,200 Israelis [massacred on Oct 7th] and apply it to the United States, that'd be 50,000-100,000 people dead in a morning! Can you imagine what we would do?" I'm not good at maths, but if we increased the number of Gazan dead by the same proportion, would it be over a million by now? Would that be acceptable?

LOL. More likely Biden has been made to look like a fool by netanyahu's refusal to abide by Biden's desire for no Rafah invasion, and is trying to save his election prospects by bribing netanyahu with information to hold back. Biden has apparently never been concerned about the previous 30,000 odd Palestinian deaths till the student protests in the US, and the likely prospect of losing in November. Even the much vaunted pause in delivery of big bombs has IMO been a sham, as all the other weapons have apparently been still sent, according to Al Jazeera. BTW, he used to say "no incursion", but now it's "no major incursion". A significant difference as it means israel can still kill lots of Gazans, just not so dramatically. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/9/which-bombs-has-the-united-states-stopped-shipping-to-israel Biden issued this warning, possibly his starkest yet against Israel, during an interview with CNN on Wednesday. In the same interview, he also said that the US would continue to supply defensive arms such as Iron Dome interceptors, underlining his continued support for Israel’s defence. US officials said on Wednesday that the US had paused a shipment of heavy bombs, including 1,800 of 2,000-pound (907kg) bombs and 1,700 of 500-pound (227kg) bombs.

and there is calculated cruelty from the IDF when they drop 2,000 lb bombs on residential buildings full of women and children. Neither side in this conflict can be proud of what they are doing, and hopefully both side's leaders will be held accountable in the ICC in the future.

Demonstrators were waving Palestinian flags in 2009? I'd never have guessed.

I never use the word Great with reference to Britain as IMO it doesn't apply anymore.