Those who agreed with it dehumanised a cultural group to justify mass violence. It can lead to things like deliberately blowing up schools.
I'm not 100% sure but I have suspicions you may be an anti-dentite ... ... Kramer has it pretty much nailed
I'm blessed tbh mate. My boss's son lives in Barbados and they visit regularly, If the son come here he brings me a bottle and, if my boss goes there, he brings one back. This time it was a bottle of Mount Gay 'Eclipse' which is exquisite and better than anything I'd buy for myself. My life has been extraordinary and I've engaged people of every denomination, religion and culture. No matter who it's been we've always ended up having a laugh and a good drink ... .. if only the daft lads, like me, could be in charge of international diplomacy the world would be a better place. The problems are caused by people who think they're more cleverer than what we are!
I have a few mates from Manchester with Trinidad and Jamaican heritage who loved their rum and rum ginger and fresh lime was often our late night clincher. I’ve had a few bad mornings from them nights.
I love my own culture but don't ever try to force it on 'non believers' ... it's a weird mixture of Methodism, Salvation Army, and Reiver mentality. Some of the best lads I spend time with was a bunch of Muslims when I worked for the Oligarch in the south of France ... ... absolutely crippled during Ramadan but great crack when it finished and we all got blind drunk together
Equating Gaza to the Holocaust is pretty textbook for people a bit too interested in the one small Jewish majority country’s war amongst all the others. Hamas’ ideology shares the desire to wipe out Jews but that’s about it. For all the flapping of closet Hamas fans it’s an inversion people have been attempting for decades so, grim an obvious a tactic as it is, something people are used to. The goal here isn’t to exterminate Palestinians or Gazans for a start, a population that has grown exponentially over the last few decades. It’s a war on multiple fronts with a variety of Iranian proxies and now Iran itself. Maybe you disagree. Maybe you agree but will disagree anyway and come up with some lewd comparisons between the two.
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/hamas-israel-hunger-war-in-gaza https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/n...itting-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
Smotrich represents a generally despised minority of hardliners and is in his role thanks to an electoral system which gives these people a disproportionate voice. Not much different to some of the rhetoric we’d have had here had UKIP been in a coalition. It’s not comparable to being the much publicised goal of the government or a widespread view amongst the population. There’s no countdown clock like Tehran.
He’s the textbook ‘internet warrior’ this lad isn’t he, a full range of clchés and clever sounding phrases. Has all of his answers ready on ‘cut & paste’ … … even if they’re not really appropriate.
Of course there are differences between the Nazis and what Israel are doing … … but there are also similarities which you glibly ignore. Absolutely textbook.
Having studied the Palestine subject in my college years,admittedly over 50 years ago,as a result, I hold some strong views. I have posted before ,but I do want to reiterate my absolute disgust at the treatment, by the Israelis, of civilians in Gaza. I would draw people's attention to UN Resolution 181,passed in 1947,in which the world approved,by majority,to support the establishment of a Jewish state,in the land known as Palestine,which proposed the creation of two states,in their historic lands,with the holy city of Jerusalem being available to all religions to worship, the whole thing to be administered by The British. This was rejected by the Palestinians,who,since then,have consistently failed to establish themselves as a properly constituted people with an effective government, and who,since 1979, have allowed themselves to be the pawns in a wider objective being put forward by the Mullahs of Iran,who have been consistently advocating the destruction of Israel,despite their own scriptures openly acknowledging these lands as being inhabited by the descendents of Abraham,thousands of years before the birth of Christ. I'm not going to rattle on any further.....I understand the feelings people have.....but,I think Mahmood Abbas said about 10 years ago?.... that the Palestinians should move themselves towards a country known as Palestine,to become part of the rest of the world and able to access the benefits available. Until the Palestinian people can free themselves from being the pawns of the fundamentalist Iranian clutches, nothing will change for the better. In my opinion.
It was also rejected by the Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin
