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Maybe but will it blend?

I have to say, neither of you have engaged with any of the points made, either by the posters or in the videos they have posted. It appears that some people, when confronted with facts or opinions that oppose their own, simply resort to epithets and insults. It's not very intelligent or a...

Simon BLAGden?!? You couldn't make it up!

Yes that's fair enough although I think saying something is always better than saying nothing at all. 6 months ago the Palestinian cause had been mostly forgotten again. Even Norman Finkelstein, the world's #1 documenter of Israel's atrocities against the Palestinians, had all but given up on...

Just circling back to this point for a second. You may pour scorn on her statement but I think it's vitally important that at least someone in Parliament has the courage to read this opinion into Hansard. We have 650 members of Parliament. The vast majority of them are spineless...

Yeah I think that's all basically true. The UN is virtually an arm of the US govt. The UN was devised by the USA and its headquarters are in New York. The USA has only 4.3% of the worlds population yet contributes a whopping 28% of the UN's annual income. Obviously, the US is not doing this...

I think it is necessary to point out the hypocrisy of the Israeli position and to spread this truth far and wide. I saw a short documentary years ago (I think it was on RT) where a bunch of Holocaust survivors were taken into Gaza via one of the military checkpoints, and at least one of them...

My impression is that the goal is to kill everyone AND GET AWAY WITH IT, hence the longer time-frame.

tens of thousands :-(

Unfortunately, the UK arms industry is waaaaaaaaay too profitable and powerful for that to ever happen. The UK has about 15% of the entire global arms trade, worth billions. It's one of our biggest industries. Most of our sales go to the Middle East and most of that to Saudi.

Well yes, exactly. Logically, therefore, Israel is clearly the barrier to a solution.

I'm not so sure about that. The UN resolution, once finally agreed to by Israel, would be implemented, thus creating a solution. It may take generations for the pain and suspicion to dissipate but eventually a solution would be there. This is literally the two state solution that's been...

Anyway, it's almost footy time lads. Peace and love to all of you, as us peacenik snowflakes like to say. Time for a low-alcohol beverage 🙂

Yes, I do have a solution. The solution is the UN resolution calling for a Palestinian state that, every year for decades, is voted FOR by the entire world but AGAINST by Israel (and occasionally, under pressure, by certain US allies) and VETOED by the USA. It's literally the whole world on one...

Casualties on the Palestinian side are artificially suppressed because nobody is counting the missing and/or those buried under tons of rubble. The real figure will no doubt be higher...

True but given the history of Israel's 'mowing the lawn' operations, you can only imagine how much worse it would be if no-one were watching.

Incorrect. Several right-wing members of the Knesset and Israeli govt have called for the eradication of all Palestinians and the total confiscation of all occupied territory. The former is known as genocide, and the latter as a war crime. Neither is permissible under international law, yet...

You are so wrong, it borders on the ridiculous. This from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hamas): "Hamas just try to kill Jews" is a deliberately obtuse statement, in my opinion, or a deliberately stupid one.

Thanks I'll give that a try

I went off craft beers ages ago so I'm afraid my taste in beer is a little basic. I found stepping down from my usual 5-6% "cooking lager" (Kronenbourg/Holsten etc) to Carlsberg (3.4%) wasn't hard and since then it's been quite easy to drink the alcohol-free stuff. Lidl Perlenbacher Pils (0%) is...