Pete

We “set up” Israel and it isn’t very likely that we, or any other sensible nation, is going to eridicate the state. As long as palestine lobs rockets and suicide bombers at Israel the stand off will go on, with only one victor. Lets face it Israel could crush any Arab state that opposes it. Hell even the Lebanese treat the Palestinians with…[Read more]

The palestinian authorities at least seem to want the eradication of Israel and nothing else will do.

Harpo Marx

@Cass_2000 wrote:

Trying to find some decent painkillers… anyone got any advice on which are the best???

Depends what it’s for

Or Israel could simply stop the blockade altogether and let all and sundry sail to Gaza, i mean they wouldn’t bring weapons in surely ? :shock:

What exactly did they expect to happen ? Israel would back down ? Have they ever ? How can offering entry to Gaza via the Ashdod port after inspection be oppression ? Or maybe the inspection was the problem. What exactly have the flotilla achieved ?

Confronting Israel and launching a few rockets over borders is not going to bring a solution to…[Read more]

The moral of the tale is if a big fella with a gun tells you not to do something or else then don’t be bloody pigheaded and do it anyway, whether he’s right or wrong he’s the big fella with the gun.

Time After Time

Giving it all Away

I paid all my dues so I picked up my shoes,
I got up and walked away.
Oh, I was just a boy,
I didn’t no how to play.

Worked hard and failed
now all I can say is
I threw it all away.
Oh, I was just a boy
giving it all away…

sail away, sail away,
ooh, I know better now, I know better now
giving it all away

ooh, I know better…[Read more]

1962: 130 die in Paris air crash
A chartered Air France Boeing 707 headed for Atlanta, Georgia, has crashed on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris, killing 130 people on board.
It is the worst ever recorded air disaster involving one aircraft.

Miraculously, two of the 10 crew survived. The air stewardesses, who had been sitting at the rear of the…[Read more]

the song of many

one or two probably have good use for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqfa-kaRFM

contemplating

They can’t stop him till they know what they’re looking for and there were 30 crime scenes. This all happened in a 3 hr period i understand which isn’t very long to respond to and stop what appears to be a moving shooter aiming at mainly random targets. If you’ve had a report of shootings you’re not likely to be on the look out for windscreenless…[Read more]

@pikey wrote:

Why should Mr Gazlan be expected to do anything, Jen? There are dozens of threads on this site where people express their outrage about all sorts of subjects – paedophiles, shootings, Lady Gaga (!?), olympic mascots – no one is expected to be doing anything concrete to justify their outrage. Why would we hold Mr Gazlan to different…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

When I was young, the permissive society was about men growing their hair in a way that shocked their grandparents and middle-class girls behaving in a way that was calculated to shock Mummy and Daddy.

Now the permissive society is more about recreational violence, bullying, binge drinking etc.

I just think it’s reported…[Read more]

Because they had no idea where he was going, couldn’t have the man had snapped and wasn’t at all rational or organised, just random stopping and shooting without any reason or motive. It would have been blind luck to have spotted him or stopped him before he did what he did.

None of that says i agree with the blockade, but if you play with fire you’ll get burned. Apparently both Egypt and Israel said they would ship the supplies into the Gaza Strip (as they already had done once) had the ships diverted to another port. The consequences were obvious and let’s face it damn good publicity for the cause. Will all that…[Read more]

Stephanie Gutmann is a journalist based in New York. She has written for dozens of publications including Playboy and the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of two books: The Kinder, Gentler Military: How Political Correctness Affects Our Ability to Win Wars, and The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy.

One…[Read more]

Reports of major suffering in Gaza may be exaggerated, according to a Danish TV journalist.

Steffen Jensen of TV2 has been based in Jerusalem for years, and has often visited Gaza, though it is must more difficult for foreign reporters to get in than before.

“This time, I had expected to see real suffering, because with all the fuss in recent d…[Read more]