Watched the presser with Sec Def and the Israeli defence fella the other day and it was quite interesting. Paraphrasing but Sec Def basically said 'if anybody else gets involved and backs Hamas.....don't'.
At the end of ww2, millions of Jews were stateless; reluctant to return to the countries they had been transported from, countries that were just as reluctant to have them back. The reasons were a mixture of anti-semitism and economic. Some European economies that were in ruins didnt want the responsibility of housing and feeding the Jews, who themselves had had enough of being persecuted. So the movement for their own land grew and they made their way to what is now Israel. Of course, the incumbent occupants of the land objected. Fearing a bloodbath, the United Nations “appointed” the British to stop the Jewish influx and to keep the two sides apart. The Jews violently resented our attempts to stop them and took action into their own hands, resulting in two famous acts of terrorism. In one, three British army sergeants (who possibly had risked their own lives to help free the Jews from the concentration camps) were taken, on their way back from a night out and hanged from lamp posts. The other infamous incident was the Jewish bombing of the Saint David’s Hotel, killing British military personnel, women and children. The rest is history. I’m not an expert in these matters, far from it, what I’ve just said is from what memory I have left of that time.
It certainly is. Next 2 weeks will be crazy imo. Absolutely anything could happen
Agree...someone took their eye off the ball in the build up to this attack, it must have been months in the planning.
There certainly seems to have been a lapse by Mosad - and by U.S. satellite observation teams, who work hand-in-glove. I’m not a “conspiracy addict” Smug, and I certainly can’t picture the Mosad and Israeli government colluding to allow the slaughter of their own people just so they could have an excuse to attack Gaza and possibly spark a middle-east wide conflict. But something doesn’t smell right. I’ve always been led to believe that if an enemy of Israel went for a ****, the entire Israeli security force would hold their nose because they were so well informed of the enemies actions. The Brits have spies embedded all over the Middle East ( or are reputed to have). The yanks have 24 hour arial surveillance. But the force that attacked Israel may have been too small to be detected. Maybe the terrorists were too smart on this occasion. Who knows? But I agree 100% with you about the population of Israel being angry with their government and intelligence services.
Protect them from what? Just observing aren't they?
Protect them from what? Just observing aren't they?
Thats the worrying bit though, there's 19 vessels named in that X post so what else is going on under the radar? **** will hit the fan very very soon and this threads title will be very very accurate.There's always a submarine or two knocking about.
I was working the night the Queen Elizabeth carrier launched. The amount of anti-submarine aircraft I spoke to that night was unbelievable. All it did was go under the Forth road bridge
If it does come we in the West in for a rude awakening. The last of the Cold War guys are long gone, and I'm part of the generation on from that who've gotten so pissed off with the declining standards that we've bailed out.
I'll be like Rasczack from Starship Troopers if it kicks off, and I'm not even that hard
A warning to the Russians not to intervene, do you think? Or a warning to other Arab states to keep out of it?
Possibly. although Russia has enough on its plate atm., dont you think, i just hope its more of a humanitarian mission although I am doubtful tbh.
