WAR! What is it good for?

Remember that guy who played for Cameroon who claimed to be 38 and looked about 58

 

Aye

The had a recent youth tournament where over 30 players were ejected from their squad for failing age tests through MRI scans

 

Roger Milla was the Cameroon guy.

Not surprised about the players getting ejected for failing age tests.

Sport nowadays seems to be about assessing whether a 6'4" 20 stone brick ****house is allowed to play for the women's team coz he's decided to call himself Brenda.

 

Don't make me post another pic Bobster ... you know what I really look like!

 

Bobster's the new kid in town ...

 

It's a war in the Middle East, Hama rules apply.

 

The Hama massacre was enacted by a dictator in Syria. Israel are supposed to be a democratic international player.

That myth has been well and truly exposed now.

 

Democratically elected governments can commit war crimes Pinks.

They're democratic and they're an international player, for sure.

 

Well indeed.

As we're seeing.

 

Indeed nothing, you just said it's a myth

But I do think they're committing war crimes, no question

 

Well the point was that democratic international players are supposed to abide by the ICJ, Geneva convention and UN security council

That's what's supposed to set them apart from out and out brutal dictatorships

It's in no doubt now that we are seeing Israel committing war crimes.

 

I get what you're saying. But everyone is supposed to follow those rules, no matter what.

I think as an international community we are getting soft as ****, keep our nose out lalala is the new thing.

We have users on here who want that to be national policy when it comes to Ukraine.

Some who want the Houthis to bombard ships cos why get involved

And now, let Israel pen people into a corner and open fire.

We are soft, we think setting off a drone strike on an empty airport is a response. Countries feel they can do what they want

 

Hamas, the democratically elected government of Gaza, deliberately targeted kids, just like they always have. Israel, as everyone knew, responded in kind, because those are the rules in Middle Eastern warfare. Wasn't so long ago bombs were being strapped to traumatized kids by their 'liberators'.

The only real crime in war is losing.

 

Yeah, it's a bullshit response. Let them do what they want and let's not get involved.

The result of that is, like you say, that some countries or leaders see it as a green light to act with impunity as nobody will bother to stop them

Or as with the situation with Israel, the international community has said 'yes you have the right to defend yourself' and they've taken it to such an extreme that we're now witnessing Genocide. A situation that the IC could have tempered from the beginning, but were too weak to call out Israel.

The fact that Israel is an illegally occupying force seems to have been lost on the International community.

 

Because now, they've received carte blanche to take over the er "security" of Gaza as they have done the West Bank.

Annexation is an ugly word with bad connotations. So Israel are simply you know, policing it, monitoring airspace, building towns, arresting dissidents, holding elections to their parliaments within those boundaries now

But not an annexation.

Security something something.

 

I remember someone writing on this forum earlier today, that all politics means nothing to Gaza, when referring to the Commons, if that is the case, why we getting involved, let Israel carry on defending it's country from any future massacres and we keep our noses out, that suits me. I think it was some guy called Welshie that made that comment btw.

 

You on the nghtshift bro?

 

Long weekend actually

 

Imagine if you and your neighbour get into a fight, you slap him and he barges down your door, smashes your house to bits, beats up your wife and all of us just go "well u slapped him"

Then after like 2 months of him smashing your house to bits, Pinkie comes to you with a letter from his kid, not him, but his kid that says "man, I want them to stop this it's not nice."

Would you say " I think that's a fair response from the community, I did slap him first"

Just saying

 

au fait accompli