Is it kicking off big time or is this just everyday stuff they deal with or a bit of both?

 

13 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Deary me

 

Sadly, there's a history of cosying up to totalitarian governments.

Sort of thing Corbyn would have done.

3 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Sadly, there's a history of cosying up to totalitarian governments.

Sort of thing Corbyn would have done.

*cough General Pinochet cough*

As the focus now turns on Hezbollah and Lebanon, the headlines will undoubtedly be about civilian casualties again. How do you fight an aggressor like this without civilian casualties?

 

7 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Sadly, there's a history of cosying up to totalitarian governments.

Sort of thing Corbyn would have done.

Who’s president Higgins? He sounds a bit rubbish. Most boring president name ever

11 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

As the focus now turns on Hezbollah and Lebanon, the headlines will undoubtedly be about civilian casualties again. How do you fight an aggressor like this without civilian casualties?

 

Going off some of the posters on here you just have to ignore them and turn a blind eye to it all, those missiles being launched from heavily populated areas aren’t really happening. 

10 minutes ago, tomski said:

Who’s president Higgins? He sounds a bit rubbish. Most boring president name ever

Owd on. Our last dog was called 'Higgins' (it was Iggy actually but the Italian mother in law could only pronounce it Higgins - to our great amusement -  so it sort of stuck).

If he'd worn a green suit you would not be asking this question.

15 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

As the focus now turns on Hezbollah and Lebanon, the headlines will undoubtedly be about civilian casualties again. How do you fight an aggressor like this without civilian casualties?

 

Precisely. There'll be those on here who do not want Israel to fight back. Just be sitting ducks and accept obliteration.

Still not seen much from the pro Palestinian mob on here criticising the 'human shields' shithousery employed by Irans proxies.

34 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Sadly, there's a history of cosying up to totalitarian governments.

Sort of thing Corbyn would have done.

Or Boris … 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-congratulates-president-rouhani-on-his-re-election

16 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Still not seen much from the pro Palestinian mob on here criticising the 'human shields' shithousery employed by Irans proxies.

Who on here is pro Palestine?

3 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Who on here is pro Palestine?

Quite a few I think 

2 minutes ago, royal white said:

Quite a few I think 

Criticising Israel's actions doesn't make one pro Palestine.

17 minutes ago, fatolive said:

Or Boris … 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-congratulates-president-rouhani-on-his-re-election

It isn't the congratulating a despot per se, it's the paranoid, conspiratorial blaming of the Israelis for the leaking his private letter to the Iranian embassy - whilst claiming he was unaware how - when it was, in fact, the Iranian embassy themselves

6 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Criticising Israel's actions doesn't make one pro Palestine.

And? Being pro Palestine doesn’t make you pro Hamas. I’ve no doubt there will be many pro Palestine posters on here 

14 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Who on here is pro Palestine?

It depends on the definition of pro-Palestine

If it's to mean supportive of the Palestinian people's right to live peacefully in a state of their own, there are many on here who would consider themselves pro-Palestine, myself included

1 minute ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It isn't the congratulating a despot per se, it's the paranoid, conspiratorial blaming of the Israelis for the leaking his private letter to the Iranian embassy - whilst claiming he was unaware how - when it was, in fact, the Iranian embassy themselves

Aye I know , my comment was in response to Bolty and his “ sort of thing Corbyn would’ve done”  following his “ cosying up comment “ 

well aware of Michel Ds bollox up of the situation , like a grandad who doesn’t understand how the internet works or something. 

 

49 minutes ago, fatolive said:

Aye I know , my comment was in response to Bolty and his “ sort of thing Corbyn would’ve done”  following his “ cosying up comment “ 

well aware of Michel Ds bollox up of the situation , like a grandad who doesn’t understand how the internet works or something. 

 

No agenda here. Just found it interesting that after an Irish PM gave tacit support to the major enemy of Jews in the 20th century (albeit as an anti British thing rather than an anti semitic one) an Irish President seems to have done the same in the 21st century. Exacerbated then by the finger pointing on who 'spread the word'.

Concede that statesmanship often requires that distasteful things have to be done to maintain channels of communication as you so ably pointed out with the Boris reference.

1 hour ago, DazBob said:

Who on here is pro Palestine?

Lobotomy required.

8 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It depends on the definition of pro-Palestine

If it's to mean supportive of the Palestinian people's right to live peacefully in a state of their own, there are many on here who would consider themselves pro-Palestine, myself included

👍

 

All this in Lebanon is rather close to Cyprus where I'm heading in a few weeks 😬

Will I need to take my big helmet? 

Until Israel stop stealing land & accept Palestines right to self govern, then there will always be resistance. We can criticise the horrific tactics of Hamas & Hezbollah as much as we want, but nobody on here can sit back & say they wouldn’t resist if it was happening over here. 

Edited September 24, 20241 yr by London Wanderer

38 minutes ago, gonzo said:

All this in Lebanon is rather close to Cyprus where I'm heading in a few weeks 😬

Will I need to take my big helmet? 

Thought you had to wear a helmet in Ayia Napa anyway?

45 minutes ago, London Wanderer said:

Until Israel stop stealing land & accept Palestines right to self govern, then there will always be resistance. We can criticise the horrific tactics of Hamas & Hezbollah as much as we want, but nobody on here can sit back & say they wouldn’t resist if it was happening over here. 

Firing thousands of rockets, indiscriminately into Israel, isn’t resistance, it’s aggression. Terrorist aggression. As you say nobody on here can sit back and say they wouldn’t resist. Unless it’s Israel though it seems. 
I support Palestine. I don’t support Hamas. Many Palestinians don’t support Hamas. Many, many Lebanese don’t support Hezbollah. It’s one of the reasons that the Israelis have such good intelligence on its leaders and their whereabouts. 

 

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

All this in Lebanon is rather close to Cyprus where I'm heading in a few weeks 😬

Will I need to take my big helmet? 

You've a history of going on holiday to war zones 

You'll be reet 😃

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

All this in Lebanon is rather close to Cyprus where I'm heading in a few weeks 😬

Will I need to take my big helmet? 

You will just be collateral damage. Israel has to defend itself you know