paddypower

I'm feeling my energy levels are dropping, at just about every page I read. maybe it's time to un-follow.

5 stars

when you have nothing to add that is useful to anyone on this thread, just say nothing. Mostly, you're quite imaginative - but here, it is like you are fishing for brownie points or you're addicted to making cheap shots.

the expression is as old as the hills. ''some of my best friends are (fill in the blank).'' You're quite naive, for a keyboard warrior. It was meant in jest - like shooting fish in a barrel 555

why not put a bit of effort into updating your terminology?a world wide common mistake is to say being anti Israeli is anti Jew. Anti Jew (haters) are referred to as antisemitic. some of my best friends are of the Jewish persuasion. That still leaves me free to criticize Israel, or at least its government.

I understand - but the money originally came from somewhere, other than olive tree farming.

you're right. maybe oppression is an out of date concept. and all the talk and negotiations have been in bad faith. Slag me if anyone wishes for writing this - but one group has a country (created artificially by the Balfour Agreement, the British & US governments of the day and the Rothschilds). The other group does not.

Unfortunately, you don't need many other players. China's imports of Iranian oil have soared, despite US sanctions. which are toothless. Hamas just needs one rich sponsor to provide unlimited arms and funding. it appears simplistic - but the western world has to do what ever it takes to cut off that support of Hamas.

thanks dude. respect.

555 good one, there's hope for you yet.

the problem is - it's out of date - too much blood has been spilled on both sides.

that is the best post of the day.

that's true. History has shown that the Arabs seem to be riven by tribal differences, which has made them ineffective leaders for the cause of establishing some type of a compromise for the Palestines. but I cannot give up hope that a peaceful solution will be found.

agree 'twas a slip of the tongue. It was an honest mistake'. 555

not possible, while there's a war going on. The day he is put into an Israeli jail (he has been indicted for corruption) will make my day.

agreed - seems there are some very sensitive posters here. 😉

Thanks for your vigilance.

Biggly, too

agreed. I ready to call a spade a spade. fact: there is nowhere to go. The description 'open air prison' is widely used. It is moronic to call it a slogan, in the face of published opinions. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/gaza-er-map-in-and-out-of-gaza/1226/ . You're putting words in my mouth when you say I claim that the blockade is not maintained by Egypt, and that it has nothing to do with Hamas. I wrote no such thing. All you do is babble that I am a partisan. By definition, of partisan - yes, I support those Palestinian people who do not support Hamas. It is subjective - because my country experienced colonialism, sectarian violence by the English for centuries and finally, peace. But my opinions are complex. Many Irish like myself show solidarity with Palestinian people - not as a “like for like” reflex nor merely a kind of political sentimentalism (where you show your ignorance by using the term partisan) . It is articulated through protest and activism, and a historically informed sense of empathy for those whose lives are curtailed by occupation and violence. so yes - I still hold the view is that you truly do deflect -because either (i) you have no empathy or (ii) you know nothing about anyone who might emphatise with Palestines.

Deflection ' the decision to describe my post as 'a whole lot of assertions' provides a neat deflection from a discussion'. ( with appologies to the Cambridge dictionary). do your due diligence before posting nonsence. All the border out of Gaza are closed, making it a prison to be carpet bombed. references: <https://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history> quote: ' Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy — to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank. Benjamin Netanyahu, 2019

some more humour from my Irish sources .... WORLD CUP LAUREL & HARDY WhatsApp Video 2023-10-23 at 18.27.03_335df185.mp4

now now....

excellent - have you seen the Laurel & Hardy meme ? Priceless.

Soccer football, Rugby football, Cricket, ...perhaps England should go back beating the Germans at their national sport (Thatcher's best line) - or just go back to Jousting ?

I'm not falling for that trick - where I post a photo off 3,700 (and counting) blown up Palestinian children to make a point. That is a facile form of debating. I don't argue with the facts you describe. they were horrific and never to be forgotten. look at the map of Gaza, relative to the whole region. It takes a warmonger, like Netanyahu (desperately trying to stay out of jail on multiple counts of corruption) to invent an offer which is impossible to accept.this is probably not too bright an idea. But the Israeli army is probably the greatest, well equipped fight force on the planet. That,, plus some of its 300,000 reservists are quite capable of invading the Gaza strip and kill all of the Hamas followers there, without carpet bombing the whole region.