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It has already been reported that Hamas are rebuilding their "fighters" to replace those killed and seriously injured. Unless Israel and a Palestinian led group can reach a diplomatic solution and Palestinian enforcement capability there will be ongoing killing and destruction. Personally I believe a Two State solution is now unachievable (700,000 Israelis in the West Bank), obviously requires a strategic revaluation to finally have a pathway for lasting peace. Perhaps ceding Area C to the Israelis - Realpolitik.

Using the word "subspecies" to describe a people (Palestinians) - a term from the Nazi era - is hate speech and unlawful in any Western democracy and totally inappropriate for this forum

You don't think Trump was trying to get a deal for Musk?

Both Biden and Trump took credit, though, of course Trump claimed it was all due to him; to quote: "This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies," https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-2025-01-15/

Until members in the House and Senate regain the moral strength to comply to their Oath Of office to support the Constitution and not an oath of loyalty to a wannabe "king"; correct The US will sink further and further into an ethical swamp. One can observe the process right now with the hearings into trump's potential appointees. One has only to look bank to the Marshall Plan as an excellent example when decisions were made to "Make America Great".

Requires a Court decision, not your or others opinion.

More probable the reason why USA ranks 12th in life expectancy in the G20 countries.

Exactly where is the evidence that Joe Biden is a convicted "crook"?

thanks for clarification. So currently roughly US$150 billion p.a. for "illegal immigrants'. Surely any cost cutting efforts impacting US citizens . refugees, asylum seekers etc should not b e impacted by the cost to US taxpayers for "illegals". Looking in from the outside I would assume US Administrations will be dealing with illegals for years to come. Personally I think the arrest / deport them all from MAGA would is not feasible unless government to government arrangements are negotiated, resources funded and so on One assumes it will take more than an Administrations term to make any meaningful difference until the root causes are addressed.

Oh...from your post "compare how much the U.S. contributes in aid to illegal immigrants" what have I misunderstood?

So far as I know the US doesn't contribute international funding for "illegal immigrants", but for asylum seekers, refugees and humanitarian relief efforts.

Most Western countries are capitalist in nature and have policies in place to support the less fortunate. For some reason it appears more than a few US citizens resent assisting the less fortunate. IMO hardly the attitude to Make America Great Again which was once crystalised by the Marshall Plan.

two thirds majority for passing welfare cuts?

There will always be some who are unemployed, no country has zero unemployment - governments should provide a safety net. In Thailand the safety net for the poor is their usually extended family who often are also poor.

Not if 40+ million of them cannot afford medical insurance.

No idea I don't have access to the stats, but don't you believe people earning a reasonably high income can have a hold on additional tax cuts to support the less well off?. I'm sure you're well aware the wealthiest country is the world, USA, in the only G20 country without Universal Health Care - a somewhat ridiculous ideological position.

Illegal immigrants are just that; it's not "Open Border" policy , it's lack of resources for enforcement and government to government agreements to enable deportation. Some may be assessed as asylum seekers after entry, again lack of funding to support rapid processing to enable them to seek work or be deported if application fails.

OK what about ceasing tax cuts for the well off (say those earing over $200k a year), rather than reducing welfare / Medicare.

The projected $5 trillion is a hell of a lot of cuts to the various welfare / food assistance /medical system and so on. One hopes it's an error as the US welfare cost alone is one trillion dollars a year. One assumes they're talking to over a four timeline. Cannot imagine being on welfare being a "career choice".

So much for protecting the less fortunate... House Republicans are circulating a “menu” of options that Speaker Mike Johnson’s conference could chose from—reportedly a massive $5 trillion worth of federal government programs to put on the chopping block to pay for the President-elect’s promised priorities, including tax cuts and border security. 'Slashing welfare': GOP eyes chopping $5 trillion to pay for Trump priorities — like tax cuts

<snipped for brevity> I assumed my post would gather lots of comments from the likes of you which only focus on Muslim offending whereas there is greater amount of this type of offending by non Muslim UK citizens. From memory the number of Muslim offenders for this type of offence is about 2% of the prison population, you can look up the stats to verify one way or the other. Sadly the socio economic sector from which the victims come and how they get exposed to manipulation tells it's own story, again from memory it's covered in the original Rotherham Inquiry. For the meantime from the BBC article which talks to another example of regrettable truth.... That string of cases, including the three quoted by Ms Braverman, involving non-white offenders has received widespread attention - especially from campaigners on social media. The 2010 convictions of a group of white men, and a woman, for abusing 30 children in the Camborne area of Cornwall has received less attention.

Are Romani people Muslim or are you just leveraging this OP to attack Muslims in general? BTW HMG does not have an "Open Door" migration policy., that's just another right of centre meme. it is interesting that white British grooming gangs get little mention in UK media, no surprise. A reasonably balanced article below sheds some light on the demographics of this type of crime. A previous piece of research from 2015 found that of 1,231 perpetrators of "group and gang-based child sexual exploitation", 42% were white, 14% were defined as Asian or Asian British and 17% black. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65174096

I had an aortic valve - open heart operation - in Australia when I was 72. Prior to the operation I had a number of tests to ensure my viability for the operation. I decided upon a valve from a cow as the metallic replacement would have required being on warfarin for the rest of my life. For me the most challenging aspect was recovery as I experienced fluid on the lungs so in hospital for two weeks instead on the usual five days. I never experienced symptoms prior to the operation, I had aortic valve stenosis, but without the operation prognosis was approx 1/2 years of life. Naturally it's your decision to go ahead or not.

If you could read my reply, perfectly visible on my notebook,, no doubt would be a blank screen in your mind being a dedicated member of MAGA i.e. facts do not compute if contrary to trump's ill-informed rants.

Yet another outright lie. Unfortunately trump cannot be banned from the Presidency due to prior cowardice by Republicans refusing to stand up and fulfil their Oath to abide by the Constitution. Facts First: This is false. Newsom has never refused to sign a “water restoration declaration.” In fact, there is no such document, as Newsom’s office said on social media on Wednesday and experts on California water policy confirmed. “There was no ‘water restoration declaration’ for him to sign,” Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow in the Water Policy Center at the Public Policy Institute of California think tank, said in a Wednesday interview. “There was never a ‘water restoration declaration’ in California that the Governor refused to sign,” Brent Haddad, an environmental studies professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in a Wednesday email. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/fact-check-trump-california-wildfires-fema/index.html