WAR! What is it good for?

I've given you loads of answers to everything. As I said you are going to continue to spew your anti Israel tripe and I want no part of that. You've got no respect for anyone elses opinion other than your own. You are just a **** stirring **** who will spend all day going round in circles on this when you are bored. Whenever I try and have a decent conversation, you start with the same crap over and over of trying to diss Israel. You are like an old dog set in it's ways, a waste of ****ing time trying to reason with.

 

Well since BAE is a protected state asset (like Rolls Royce) of course their needs are taken into consideration . The only problem for the UK is they are by far the most important home producer and therefore cannot be replaced / punished for failure to meet deadline / timescales like in the Ajax contract to supply a new generation of armoured vehicles .

 

There is a point though... why ban ANY / EVERY outside / neutral observers? ... can't possibly be to do with 'compromising operations' ... not when all that's left of your opposition is a few guys with Kalasnikovs hiding in tunnels... and if the refugees are really your concern, then ongoing negotiations for their release would have been far more effective in getting more of them out alive...

 

I agree they shouldn't be banning any journalists. I don't have an answer to why they do that and yes it makes it look well iffy. As I understand it, one journalist got in from CNN on the Egypt side, other international journalists from all the well known sources put in a letter requesting to be allowed in. It's their lives, their jobs, just let them do it. I have no intention of excusing it and have never tried.

 

I’ll PM you the details for our Not606 end of Pesach meal now I’ve seen this.

 

Every other Gazan is a part-time journalist so I don’t see the need myself.

 

You're not helping bro.

Although they manage to get footage to international journalists when it suits, in that I agree.

 

Anyone notice how CK disappears and leaves me to it when I get going.

I'm going to be keeping a close eye on his league table...

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Sovereignty innit. Can’t be letting any old **** with a lanyard into a war zone just as they don’t need some non-entity MP who should be helping Beryl down the road with the pothole outside her house.

 

I always answer questions, I've no reason not to answer questions, it don't make my opinion right, but I will always try and be as frank as I can. Sometimes I get things wrong, actually quite often I get things wrong, but that's how we learn and you are never too old to learn. But someone banging the same drum everytime in every reply does my ****ing nut in, to me it's akin to them trying to coerse your opinion or make the conversation seem as though you are onside with their opinion, just because I try and be polite, so then I can't be arsed to reply, I can't arsed to be nice, because it's like whats the ****ing point. I might as get a dog to chase a non existent ball, at least it would bring back something useful like a stick.

 

Not a lot of other options for employment in Gaza considering the Israeli's have bombed everything flat.

 

There is a plethora of acting positions vacant. Child soldiers are in high demand and supply. There are construction opportunities aplenty coming up. They’ll be fine doing what they’ve always done best.

 

Piskie and Fosse…

One question. Do you guys believe that since Oct 7th, Hamas have at times used emergency vehicles to move about? Yes or No.

 

ffs

I asked you why you think Israel doesn't allow journalists in.

 

Yes, I think they probably have

Does that justify the attack on the ambulances that we're talking about ?

No

 

So you mean Badar Khan Suri and the travel group that was refused a travel permit by Pakistan?

 

Almost certainly ... but that doesn't give carte blanche to fire on every emergency vehicle, just in case... if there are 51,000 deaths, the numbers of injured will be several multiples ... nor does it justify bombardments on hospitals... the last functioning hospital in Gaza was hit by airstrikes last week severely harming its medical capabilities... so now no fully functioning hospital in the strip ... seems like there might be a bit of a 'cunning plan' going on there...

 

I agree with you.

There’s now an argument to say how could the IDF be 100% sure these were all medics and not Hamas fighters amongst them? We both agree it’s a murky area because Hamas do travel in these emergency vehicles at times

 

Yeah I see that point and they are about to get a lot more contracts soon as UK defence spending rises.

I guess it's about the management and oversight of where those weapons end up, who we sell them to, and in what scenarios they are used for.

I know that's not a straight forward equation, and at least the UK govt did have the balls to suspend some arms exports to Israel when it was concluded that there was a 'clear risk' that they would be used to violate international humanitarian law.