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Israel’s Disinformation Campaign Against UNRWA
It is reported that UNRWA are delivering all manner of supplies to Hamas in Palestine. For those with short memories it was Hamas and its' Palestinian supporters who brutally murdered over 1700 Israeli men, women, children and infants on 7 October 2023. -
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Far-right activists from Germany spent US election day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Your quote alone from that "source" shows you are wrong. Class? Can you find the key words? -
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Starling bank - declined Easy Saver account
Alternatives: Chase gives 3.5%, Wise currently gives 4.26% (not guaranteed) -
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Israel’s Disinformation Campaign Against UNRWA
Nonsense. As an example, several times Israel has given back the Golan mountains as before the muslims would sit at the top and shoot Israeli farmers below. Every time Israel gave the mountains back, the muslims started shooting again. Israel wants a buffer zone for security not territorial expansion. Have you been to Israel? I have, twice and seen it for myself. -
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Israel’s Disinformation Campaign Against UNRWA
Very true. There are several (factual) points which have been totally ignored in this piece. ÚNWRA staff were involved in the October 7th attacks, they were amongst the participants and their facilities and support were central. They are the only real players in the distribution of aid, because HAMAS and UNWRA are in "lockstep", HAMAS has almost total control of aid distribution, and UNWRA is the only agency they allow to operate. Many UNWRA staff have been killed and UNWRA facilities have been destroyed, because HAMAS has had based itself in and around (and under) those facilities, and HAMAS, including many UNWRA staff, has been fighting from them. ÚNWRA and HAMAS are, to all intents and purposes, the same body. -
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UK Job Market Struggles Amid Tax Hikes: Hiring Crisis Deepens
Well, 20% of the electorate voted for it. It's the 80% that did not vote for this I have some sympathy for as the damage could be irreparable in just a single term of this clown show, especially when they inevitably start to double down on their mistakes like gamblers chasing their losses. -
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Why Do So Many Foreign Men Still Marry Short-Time Girls?
There's a fool born every minute - and two bargirls to take him. Literally, every single day, thousands of starry-eyed single (or not) men arrive in Thailand and fall in love with the first bar girl they meet. Because for most of them, they've never had ANY woman treat them the same as your average (Thai) bar girl has been doing since she was a kid (before she ever went to a bar - it's Thai culture - women are generally raised to "take care" of the men). And it's not just old, ugly guys on their third divorce either. When I was in Afghanistan (first time, '03-'05) one of our firefighters was a guy who looked like he came straight out of a Chippendale's calendar. Any time he'd be outside sunning himself you'd see a bunch of the women (military and civilian) trying to sneak peeks from their tent lines. He goes to Phuket on his first holiday. Falls in love with the (2nd or 3rd) bar girl he met (according to his friends). Comes back to work and on his next holiday he clears out his bedspace and flies back to Thailand (without giving notice). Marries his teerak and tries to open a "dive shop", thinking he was living the dream. Until he found out life isn't so easy. Small matters like visas and work permits and so on. Suddenly he's out of money, no job and his "teerak" dumps him (naturally). He ended up doing odd jobs at a hotel owned by a Canadian couple and getting paid under the table until he got enough to get back to Canada. It's a story that is literally repeated every single day in Thailand. Usually with older guys who've been married and divorced, often more than once. They meet a woman in a beer bar. She's nice, pays attention to him, pampers him a bit and the hook is in. Suddenly he thinks he's "living the dream". A resort paradise, not freezing cold or drizzling, dreary rain. A woman who smiles when she looks at you and treats you "like a king" compared to how you were normally treated by women "back home". This has been happening here ever since the first "beer bar" opened however long ago (likely before the first US servicemen started going to Pattaya on R&R from Vietnam in the late 60s). And it will keep happening for as long as Thai women keep being Thai women and "Western women" continue being "Western women".
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