Gaza under attack yet again.

[butchersapron]

i don't suppose that's david lloyd the cricketer who has a bit in the book.

Would be nice but it's David Lloyd - Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside.

 

[Dan U]

Just imaging ol bumble writing in that book interspersed with his sometimes weird tweets on cricket and his Mrs.

 

[Gingerman]

Good to see more international focus on Israeli politics:

The Death of Sympathy
How Israel’s hawks intimidated and silenced the last remnants of the anti-war left.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articl...sympathy_israel_gaza_liberals_netanyahu_hawks

http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/This-Week-In-History-Masses-protest-Sabra-Shatila
How times have changed in Israel and not for the better

 

[Gingerman]

Jon Voight is infamous as one of Hollywood's most right wing kooks.

His daughter Angela Jolie has been strangely quiet about the situation in Gaza

 

[belboid]

http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/This-Week-In-History-Masses-protest-Sabra-Shatila
How times have changed in Israel and not for the better

Yup, and, sadly, it justifies the SW 'pessimism' - they could get 400,000 out then, and had regularly been getting 100,000 before that, compare to, what, 6,000 on the biggest Israeli anti-war demo today.

 

[Dandred]

I was just wondering what the long term ideas for the surrounding countries of Israel are? What will they do if Gaza and the West Bank are brought into 100% Israel control?

 

[framed]

Would be nice but it's David Lloyd - Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside.

And definitely not David Lloyd, former tennis player,brother of John, and the owner of a chain of leisure centres and tennis schools...

Also should not be confused with that other David Lloyd... George.

 

[laptop]

I was just wondering what the long term ideas for the surrounding countries of Israel are? What will they do if Gaza and the West Bank are brought into 100% Israel control?

I have a feeling the definition of "the surrounding countries" will be a bit fluid over the next decades...

Those that exist at the moment would do nothing.

 

[Anudder Oik]

Russell Brand takes on a Fox anchor in this great video. Fox anchor = wanker.

 

[Gingerman]

Russell Brand takes on a Fox anchor in this great video. Fox anchor = wanker.

Sean Hannity is a fucking anus

 

[Grandma Death]

Russell Brand takes on a Fox anchor in this great video. Fox anchor = wanker.

To be fair as entertaining as that it is it wont change the mind of such myopic views expressed by Fox. Fox is garbage and the sooner people realise the better. Its like getting outraged at the stories of immigrants on the daily mail site. No problem laughing at, ridiculing or challenging such views-but pointless thinking you can change them with a youtube channel or in Owen Jones's case a demo outside of the daily mail HQ

 

[Dandred]

I have a feeling the definition of "the surrounding countries" will be a bit fluid over the next decades...

Those that exist at the moment would do nothing.

Cunts.

But What is the long game of the States neighbouring Israel?

Saudi can't be US slaves when they own so much oil.

CUNTS. ALL OF THEM.

 

[nino_savatte]

This is depressing.

Scattered anti-war rallies have drawn small crowds, mostly in the low hundreds; the largest brought several thousand people to Tel Aviv on July 26. But most of the protests ended in violence at the hands of ultranationalists, who attacked them and set up roving checkpoints to hunt for "leftists" afterwards. Demonstrators have been beaten, pepper-sprayed, and bludgeoned with chairs.

In hundreds of interviews with Israelis over the past month, there has been little criticism of their government's actions, much less sympathy for Gaza's. "We have suffered terribly, but when you are pushed into a corner, you have no choice," said one man in Ashkelon. "Their children? What about our children? If they cared about their children, they wouldn't have chosen Hamas," said a woman in Kiryat Malachi, a city in Israel's south.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articl...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Just realised this has already been posted.

 

[Anudder Oik]

To be fair as entertaining as that it is it wont change the mind of such myopic views expressed by Fox. Fox is garbage and the sooner people realise the better. Its like getting outraged at the stories of immigrants on the daily mail site. No problem laughing at, ridiculing or challenging such views-but pointless thinking you can change them with a youtube channel or in Owen Jones's case a demo outside of the daily mail HQ

It's not aimed at Fox but rather at people who might be watching from the sidelines and for that point it is extremely informative and well delivered. Of course Fox can't be changed, it's a Murdoch channel, ffs.

 

[Grandma Death]

It's not aimed at Fox but rather at people who might be watching from the sidelines and for that point it is extremely informative and well delivered. Of course Fox can't be changed, it's a Murdoch channel, ffs.

Who are these people? They dont watch Fox but watch the conflict from the sidelines you're suggesting?

 

[weltweit]

Homeless in Gaza, a bbc short video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28683155

 

[uk benzo]

I was just wondering what the long term ideas for the surrounding countries of Israel are? What will they do if Gaza and the West Bank are brought into 100% Israel control?

Nothing. They will do as they are told by the US. Moreover, the surrounding countries view the Palestinians as a scourge. The Lebanese treats Palestinians (and Syrians) like vermin- subjugating them to third class treatment, denying them basic rights. Egypt works with the zionist entity to cage in the Palestinians in Gaza. Jordan does not want more Palestinians in its borders, as Jordanians of Palestinian origin are actually the majority.

Fuck them.

 

[Gingerman]

http://bostonreview.net/world/assaf-sharon-israel-idf-gaza-radicalism-moral-siege-kahane

 

[Gingerman]

 

[Knotted]

http://bostonreview.net/world/assaf-sharon-israel-idf-gaza-radicalism-moral-siege-kahane

That's an excellent, well researched article. Cheers for sharing that.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Israeli forces open fire at Gazans in Shujaiyya park

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces opened fire at Gaza municipality staff while they were inspecting a destroyed park east of Shujaiyya, the workers said on Wednesday.

The attack came on the second day of a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants and took place in the al-Qubba area of the neighborhood, which witnessed some of the most intensive Israeli bombardment over the course of the four-week Israeli assault.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=718677

 

[TomUS]

I was just wondering what the long term ideas for the surrounding countries of Israel are? What will they do if Gaza and the West Bank are brought into 100% Israel control?

They are already under about 98% Israel control, so I don't think there will be any change.

 

[TopCat]

Israel aren't going to negotiate anything. It will be back to the same status quo.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Israel aren't going to negotiate anything. It will be back to the same status quo.

But with the massively extended exclusion zone and with Gaza razed to the ground.

 

[TopCat]

But with the massively extended exclusion zone and with Gaza razed to the ground.

Are they still enforcing this land grab of Gaza?

it's getting like Afghan was. Just bombing rubble into smaller pieces, killing people and setting up generations of hate and resistance.

 

[likesfish]

Jordan does not want more Palestinians in its borders, as Jordanians of Palestinian origin are actually the majority.

Well the plo did try to take over Jordon so no suprise really the Palestinians have had truly shocking leadership cheering saddam didnt win them any friends if they weren't a foe of israel they would have gone the way of the kurds

 

[Pickman's model]

Jordan does not want more Palestinians in its borders, as Jordanians of Palestinian origin are actually the majority.

Well the plo did try to take over Jordon so no suprise really the Palestinians have had truly shocking leadership cheering saddam didnt win them any friends if they weren't a foe of israel they would have gone the way of the kurds

tbh i think anyone who wanted to go to jordan, even people the jordanians were happy to let in, would find it rather tricky to get from gaza to jordan.

 

[TopCat]

Maybe need a longer tunnel?

 

[teqniq]

Good article from Seumas Milne in the Graun

Gaza is a crime made in Washington as well as Jerusalem

 

[ViolentPanda]

Milosevic died in the Hague, hopefully Netenyahu will follow soon.

I'd prefer it if Fat Benny died while free, hanging upside down from a lamp-post and with his throat slit in approver kosher-style. Unfortunately for those who believe in justice, he'll probably die in his bed like that voluminous sack of shit Sharon.