Israel/Palestine Thread

How much money did he get when he negotiated his resignation,

I'd say he's received a sizeable golden handshake,

But he's making a point.....

SF once again showing imaturity in relation to the Israeli ambassador.

OK so we kick out the ambassador.

Then what? What have we gained and who do we talk to after that?

And what if there are Irish citizens in Israel or Palenstine requiring assistance? Didn't think of that either because Israel will just kick out our ambassador and barely blink an eyelid.

But yet they have completely ignored Yuri Filatov the Russians ambassador to Ireland

How does a freedom fighter become a terrorist ?

Most Irish people were delighted that hostilities ended. The IRA were not defeated. You shouldn't conflate those two things.

People need to contact their local TDs about pushing through the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018

This could start a domino effect across the EU, something the apartheid state fears, hence their very active Hasbara campaigns over all Irish based social media platforms

Israel employs an army of social media warriors, make sure you don't get caught up debating them

For women in Islam, everything is different, as legally ( sharia Law) their word carry's only about a third the weight of a mans. And in strong Islamic Country's while women divorcing is not unknown, I could see them being more problematic especially where there are children. and then ( Pakistan especially, but not confined to Pakistan either ) There's the question of "Honour" which in their culture plays a very big part. To the extent, that women have been mutilated and killed over perceived dishonorable behavior. And there have been such cases recorded even in England. And quite a lot of this disgusting behavior can come from the Brides relatives, or even her family. But for modern educated Muslim women, all they need to do is to say to the soon to be ex husband "I divorce you x 3 times, and that's it from what I understand. I happened to be present in one Sharia Court one time, as a spectator with a Muslim friend, and a case came up where a divorced Wife was bringing the ex to court for non-payment of the agreed maintenance cash. He was several months in arrears it seems. All done and dusted in a few minutes. The Mullah listened to the women, and then sent her out of the room to wash her hands, and when she came back in, a copy of the Quran was placed in front of her and she placed her right hand on it, and repeated what she had said earlier to the Mullah. Job done. The Mullah ordered the ex husband to pay up, and that was that.

There are already Irish citizens in Gaza being refused access to their embassy by the Israelis. They do not give a fiddler's about us because we won't cheer on their genocide. While I agree that its better to have them 'in the tent pissing out rather than outside pissing in', remember that all relationships change over time. Your best friends are the ones who tell you to cop the F on, not the ones egging you on to be a bigger loser.

ML is correct here. The Israeli ambassador needs a right faceful and a concrete plan to get our people to safety. If they won't do that, what good are they to us?

A stain is all they are.

People who follow popular hashtags may be but the absolute majority of people couldn't give a fiddlers over another middle east conflict ,

Any country that has intelligence operations over seas will use foreign pass ports it's was hardly new or suprising at the time ,I'm sure the Iranians - Americans do it .

The biggest spy ring in Europe operates out of the Russian embassy on Orwell road

Tens of thousands world wide..

That proves the point the absolute majority of people don't actually care unless it directly effect them

It is without question that the carpet bombing of Dresden and other German cities offered no military value and continued even when victory was inevitable and constituted war crimes by modern definition. It is also beyond question that the war against Germany was justified.

Similarly targeting Hamas is justified however indiscriminate bombing resulting in 10’s of thousands if civilian deaths is a war crime. And it’s actually what Hamas want. The brainwashed Hamas fighter craves martyrdom, the Hamas leadership wants as many Martyrs as possible to try to rouse a unified Arab resistance . And Israel is happy to give it to them.

The, erm, war map so far.

No i mean countries see things different ( Egypt is wrong ). Some see a resistance fighter others see terrorists.