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This is getting <deleted> silly!

Deep breath.... 1. You posted that only Jews were conscripted into the IDF. 2. Subsequently you posted that Druze were conscripted into the IDF. I pointed out that post #1 was contradicted by post #2. There followed accusations of me being a "lefty liar" - anyone who knows me or has followed my posts will know that I am far from being a lefty - that is frankly a ludicrous suggestion, albeit perhaps subjective. As to being a liar, a specific objective accusation, not so; it is you who denied posting something that is there, on the record, in black and white! Most people probably would, realising that they had made a mistake would admit it and things would move on. However you resort to abuse. Now, sticks and stones and so on, but these groundless accusations of being a liar, the implication that holding or expressing a different view is somehow inherently deceitful has become prevalent ( with you and several others) and I confess to being some what prickly about it; hence the (tongue in cheek) suggestion that you "lie like a cheap NAAFI watch". It does rather seem, for you that invective and abuse are a "one way street"! Anyone who is interested can follow the exchange of posts, they are on the board, and can come to their own conclusions. I doubt many will, and I don't really blame them! You can stop calling me a liar.

...like a cheap NAAFI watch!

Make your mind up, two hours ago you posted that only Jews were conscripted into the IDF.

Quite a significant number of non Jews serve in the IDF. Some of their best infantry units are recruited from the Druze. Arab Christian and Muslim soldiers also serve alongside and integrated with Jewish soldiers. There are Arab and Druze officers, several have had distinguished careers.

Also, it has got a really good fire alarm!

They were. Terrible places and terrible things were done. My brother was adopted, at least partly, to prevent him and his natural mother (my aunt) being sent off to one in 1958. They existed in England too, albeit less savage and cruel in the way they operated. The whole business was traumatic for my aunt, who emigrated shortly after to Canada, and for my brother when he was told what had happened, in his late teens. All concerned had been sworn to secrecy, that was lifted the day my grandmother died. Families! Perhaps in 1958, for a staunch Catholic family it was the best of available options? I am not sure that they should be regarded as indicative of the social mores of the church 65 years on.

Wasn't this exhaustively covered in a TV documentary by RTE 10 or so years ago?

I must confess that I am surprised, given the regularity with which you make comments upon the government of The United Kingdom, and being as how you are a British citizen (albeit one who clearly hankers after the smack of firm government as delivered by the flabby paws of a foreign head of state), that your understanding of our constitution is so limited that you think that the King has any executive powers over our borders. Frankly I doubt whether he even owns a sharpie!

I don't want to be pedantic, (well actuallyI do), but Queen Elisabeth was Queen of Canada and King Charles is King of Canada. So for them to host a state visit - which means by definition a visit by the head of state of a foreign country means that they would be hosting themselves. Trudeau (and Carney) as their Prime Ministers are constitutionally far more important than and will have more frequent and meaningful consultations than those enjoyed (?) with Trump. Of course the decision as to whether to vote for a President is one for the Canadian people - but they may wish to ponder on the malignant, fat, spray tanned orange presence looming over their southern border!

I suspect they will - his narcissistic streak should be well sated by that inflatable model of him which we can be sure will be bobbing over the rooftops of the Royal Borough of Windsor!

Albeit one able to write coherently, grammatically, spell and use punctuation!

I too visited Belsen in the 70s. There was at the time no museum, just some display boards which explained, in several languages, what happened there. Perhaps you should have played attention? It was very clear. The Officer or NCO in charge of your party should have explained it. Hohne, Soltau and Fallingbostel Garrisons had policies that newly arrived soldiers were to be taken to the site of the camp. There was a briefing pack which was supposed to be used. I know, I conductedseveral such tours. The Dutch troops stationed in the area did similar, after all, many of the victims (Anne Frank) were Dutch. Bergen Belsen was a holding camp, a "concentration camp", not an extermination camp, nor a labour camp. Very different to Auschwitz. As the borders of the Reich shrank, particularly in the east, prisoners were brought there and dumped. The huge numbers of deaths were from starvation, neglect and disease - notably typhus, together of course with wilful and deliberate neglect by the guards, several of whom were later hung after military trials at Luneberg for the savage part they played in the vile business. Belsen was of course liberated by British Troops, it's liberation and the subsequent treatment and rehabilitation of it's prisoners is exceptionally well documented, filmed, written about and there is much eye witness testimony. I knew a girl whose father had been amongst the troops who found the place. 30 years on he was still having nightmares. You may of course choose not to believe it, but it does not reflect well on you; after all, Holocaust Denial can result from political beliefs, as in the case of this Polish fellow, or wilful ignorance.

So if we follow that logic (dangerous I will admit) getting on for 60% of Americans are "illegals"? Once the big beautiful mass deportations are completed the place will be empty!

Fake News! Coming from Chaiyna! Mind you, if there is a drop in recorded violent crime, could it be that it is because many of the usual perpetrators are attracted to joining the swelling masked ranks of ICE?🤔

I can't find winter tyres for my Yamaha Spark anywhere here in Thailand - most perplexing!

Somebody at least teach him to iron a shirt!

Perhaps we need to differentiate between "soft diplomacy" and "soggy diplomacy". There is little if any public appetite for this visit, it was a pretty egregious example of our Prime Minister manipulating the monarchy to suit his own political purposes ( principally poll ratings I suspect). Heaven knows what crass statements will emerge! I wonder if he will get to chat about mutual friends with The Duke of York? It really would be very funny if escorts to any carriage processions were to be provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police!

Says the man who claims it is down to Mossad and Nethanayu! Face it, we are both advancing opinions. Neither of us can prove anything, because the Trump Administrations refusal to release the evidence which may refute or confirm my opinions. Save the "pearl clutching", I am not accusing anyone on this forum of paedophilia (that may be grounds for a ban), I am suggesting that there is considerable circumstantial evidence that Trump may be one; the files may go a long way to disproving that, or they may provide yet more evidence. He won't release them. It is an opinion, a suspicion, based as I said on circumstantial evidence. If you think that such opinions should not be voiced then perhaps you should make a start by not voicing suspicions about Israeli and Mossad involvement, based on nothing more concrete than Epstein having a "Jewish surname"?

You have your views, I however, along with quite a few others, think he is a nonce, who has been caught out, and is trying to wriggle off the hook.

Video and audio clips of "Epstein, like me, likes them young" Recorded incidents of "visiting" changing rooms at beauty pageants... Says the man who blames it all on Mossad!

So the advice is clear - steer clear of the LJs ( lumpy jumpers)! Nothing to do with monks thinking with their willies!

Getting worried?

Mushrooms?

No conspiracy all down to the direction of one man - in my opinion, Trump, with a known, declared and practised interest in teenage girls was very probably part of it. That much is known. He thought he was in the clear, hence the initial enthusiasm for releasing files - he knew exactly what had been going on, and calculated that if the names of the players were in the open, and his name was not amongst them, then he would be "whiter than white", giving him tremendous moral, political and quite possibly financial leverage. If it turns out he is not in the clear, then the very obvious "volte face"! It has all the familiar fingerprints of one man: bizarre, chaotic, almost incredible and obviously duplicitous.