The One Who Knocks, Sun 05 Nov 13:55

I think it`s fair to say that you need to disassociate Likud from Israel the same way we are told to not conflate Hama`s with the Palestinians. Both are political movements voted into positions of power by some of their people however.
This is obviously an emotional issue for you but when you made the statement a couple of days ago;
"I say, hang on, something is interfering with this open discussion, and I say, well, F*CK YOU, ISRAELI C*NTS!", it certainly made me look twice.
At the time I couldn`t and still can`t figure out who you were raging at with that tirade? Suffice to say if you had put any other nationality before the C word I don`t doubt it would have been deemed unacceptable.

Bamba-Daft, Sun 5 Nov 14:22

A good point well made. Replace the word Israeli with say Pakistani, or Irish.. this forum would be in total meltdown.

OzPar, Tue 7 Nov 04:34

And now it is emerging that many of the early Israeli claims about the actions taken by Hamas on October 7 were untrue. Child beheadings, rapes, Jewish mass graves, even the number of Israelis killed by Hamas fighters. Fiction. Survivors of the attacks on a kibbutz told Israeli State Radio it was Israeli tank shells and indiscriminate IDF firing that "undoubtedly" killed many of the victims, not Hamas gunfire. Strangely, that was immediately suppressed. But, for some homework, go Google the meaning of the Israeli term, Hasbara, and the definition of the "Hannibal Doctrine".

We also now are learning that for years, the Israeli Government has referred to Gaza not as a concentration camp but as "The Lab", a place where they could test out new weaponry and surveillance devices. Doesn’t that remind you of the Nazis?

What country uses an ethnically cleansed and imprisoned population to test out weaponry? Water, fuel, and electricity are taken away from two million people who are having bombs rained down on them every day from an apartheid regime next door. Nowhere is safe – schools and hospitals are bombed – there is no distinguishing between civilians and combatants. Can you begin to imagine what that would be like? I saw a woman yesterday describing how she had lost 30 of her family in two days.

And when a Palestinian diplomat revealed on BBC TV that he had just lost six family members in Israeli strikes, Kirsty Wark replies, "Sorry for your personal loss. Can I just be clear, though? You cannot condone the killing of civilians in Israel, can you?"

The root cause of so much hate, strife and bloodshed is Zionism, a psychopathic nationalist movement that masquerades in a religion`s name. The truth is a high proportion of Jews have a low regard for Zionism, so why is there so much support for it in the West? Politics and the media are infested with supporters of Zionism. History shows that Jews and Muslims primarily lived in harmony in every Arab land until the awakening of Zionism and the creation of the Balfour Agreement. Cause and effect; it is obvious!

Ultimately, we have allowed our leaders to sponsor an apartheid regime in Tel Aviv in our name.

The sense of hopelessness with the Gaza situation can feel overwhelming. So, what can we do? Do we howl at the moon in a vain belief that this will help? Or do we actively boycott all support for Israel until they change their attitude towards their neighbours? And perhaps call them c#nts at every possible opportunity?

Not your average Sunday League player.

Tad Allagash, Tue 7 Nov 19:09

jake89 wrote:

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Socialist Worker? Really?