This is the politics section of the forum and sadly there are a few here that are anti semitic in the Corbyn tradition.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

There is very little coverage of a war. I see the IDF moving around destroyed civilian areas. Injured/homeless/starving civilians.

Where is this war being conducted ? I see no parades of captured/killed Hamas fighters. No daily updates to the press of how the war is going.

Just photographs of smashed civilian areas.

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned in the ways wars used to be conducted.

I disengage, I turn the page.

Hamas conducted their war on oct 7th. Raping.murdering and taking hostages; In their opinion that’s war.

You may care to investigate the situation between Israel and Palestine for the preceding decades. Particularly the expanding borders of Israel into Palestinian land, where new Israeli settlers were armed with American military weapons and equipment and a licence to kill (Palestinians) without fear of prosecution.

I disengage, I turn the page.

And then Israel will have no reason to attack Gaza.

The West Bank is not Gaza. not even close.

At some point people have to start looking forward for solutions not in the past for reasons.

Edited by HKOwen (03 Feb 2024 10.06am)

Edited by HKOwen (03 Feb 2024 10.06am)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

But will people in Gaza have reason to attack Israel?

Over 2 million people crammed into a space 1/6 the size of London. With no ability to come and go as they wish. With their access to utilities controlled by other countries. And now having seen 10,000s of their friends and families killed.

There is no peace deal possible. There never was. Which is the entire point. Israel has embarked on a policy of ethnic cleansing. Now I believe the entire October 7th terrorist attack (and that is what it was, I make no excuses) was entirely orchestrated by elements in the Israel for an excuse to do what they are currently doing to Gaza. With Hammas needing little encouragement.

Back in July 2005, the scum who bombed the transport in system arrived at Luton railway station and left their car there. They hated the UK but they had a choice to leave. All British passport holders and with a myriad of opportunities to take off and live somewhere else. They chose not.

The people who attacked Israel on October 7th did not have those options to just leave.

Again, no excusing what they did on October 7th. But merely trying to put it into context in terms of the wider conditions that created it.

The terrorists were scum on October 7th. Zero doubts. But I have seen enough evidence of the IDF blowing up peoples homes and destroying infastructure in Gaza for me to conclude they are also scum.

f*** Hamas. f*** Israel. And not one European life for either.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.