It's back, it won't go away.

[oldcolner]

Time for the Ewood prayer room BT?

McCluskey will be plotting to regain the Momentum as Jeremy forgets where he hung his coat and says he didn’t think he was wearing one.

[oldcolner]

Unfortunately, BT, almost all politicians have the blinkers on these days and they can't, or won't, see the obvious because they are concentrating too much on furthering their own ends. This is never going to be a way forward and, even if it was, it would still need good leadership, whichever party is in power. We have not had any proper leadership in this country for many, many years and I don't see any prospective leaders coming up on the rails. Very sad really.

We might still get Merkel!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It is unimaginable to me that an Opposition Party cannot see off this present Government. Unfortunately, May's star is rising and Corbyn is taking the Labour Party under.

The open air prison in Gaza is deplorable but Corbyn needs to address domestic issues and Brexit, but he singularly fails to do so. I hate to say it, but campaigning against the tragedy of Grenfell and the abuse of Palestinians will not win votes here. Nimbyism prevails I'm afraid and the Tories get that, Corbyn doesn't.

[outwoodclaret]

How come this sh*t is a Prime Minister in waiting?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

How come this sh*t is a Prime Minister in waiting?

Corbyn isn't.

[Balanbam00]

Bt: The Gaza strip has 2 borders ,one with Israel and the other with Egypt. Plus the people of the Gaza strip have built tunnels ,In some instances they have brought new cars from Egypt through the tunnels. Hamas uses the tunnels to earn, like a tax when people want to use them. ''"I used to import tens of food items from around the world, but in the last two years Hamas makes it almost impossible to make a profit because of the high taxes they imposed," says Mr Yazjji, who is based north of Gaza City.
. "We will collect taxes on secondary goods only - such as clothing, fruits, or electrical appliances. Flour, rice, sugar, medicines and other basic goods will not be taxed," Said Ahmad Abu Halbiya, a Hamas member of parliament, said.
The tax increase "will benefit the citizens of Gaza - especially the civil servants and security forces that need money to feed their families," he said.
Loss of support
Egypt's destruction of the tunnels has cost Hamas heavily
Gaza's citizens have increasingly picked up the bill as Hamas seeks to replenish its depleted funds.
After Mr Morsi was ousted, Hamas lost a second key source of income when Egyptian forces destroyed tunnels it said were used by militants to smuggle weapons into Sinai.
Hamas used to make millions of dollars from taxes it imposed on goods brought through the tunnels. The recent tax increases though have come at a price.
"Hamas has lost a great deal of its popularity by imposing taxes to pay the salaries of public workers," says Mr Sabbah.
And Hamas's financial crisis is unlikely to be solved soon with Israel and Egypt continuing their border closures amid fear of attack by militants from Gaza.
So the Islamist movement is forced to manage and make do, in the hope that events in the Middle East may one day turn in its favour.

As for people who want to enter Israel for peaceful reasons (such as medical need, education, etc.), they are sometimes restricted by their own government (Hamas) from leaving. Israeli hospitals still do regularly treat Palestians from Gaza. Hamas does not make it easy to leave. It’s a catch 22.
The story is totally different if you live in West bank or outside Gaza Strip, There are pretty high chances to travel.

So BT ,its not exactly a prison,you just have to have the proper connections.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

From what you say, it sounds like all the people of Gaza need to do is jump in their car and head off anywhere Balan?

[sinkov]

I wonder how it will play out. Israel and Russia seem to be on the same wavelength, Iranian influence in Syria will be kept in check, Assad will do as Putin tells him, Trump is putting an economic squeeze on Tehran which will reduce the funding for Hezbollah and Hamas. It looks to be going Israel's way at the moment.

[Balanbam00]

Hahahahah No Hamas will not let them out!!!!


Just think of it a rich Palestinian , then no more donations !!!!

British Taxpayers Give $220 Million to Fund Islamic terrorism – in other words, the British Government steals $220000000 of taxpayers money to fund The Palestinian Authority which pays salaries to Muslim terrorists who carried out terrorist attacks "in the name of Allah". The more people they killed the more money they get at the expense of the Australian taxpayers.
The Palestinian Authority is about to lose its terrorism financing from USA, Canada, UK and Australia.

Every year Billions of dollars of American, Canadian, British and Australian taxpayers' money go to the Palestinian Authority.
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PAID TERRORISTS NEARLY $350 MILLION IN 2017 , Worth 7% of its budget and an astonishing 50% of its foreign aid receipts.
The Palestinian Authority pays $580 per month to Muslim terrorists who are sentenced to three to five years in prison.
The Palestinian Authority pays terrorists who are sentenced to 20 years or more in prison 2835$ per month – in other words, those who committed more severe crimes and were involved in killing Christians or Jews get five times More money each month for the rest of their lives. Western countries must stop funding the Palestinian Authority.

Liberals and leftists in the West use the made up term "Islamophobia" to portray anyone who criticizes Islam as a "racist".
Radical Muslim terrorists all over the world carry out terror attacks "in the name of Allah". They justify their violence by quoting verses from the Quran. Islamophobia is a made up word created by the Muslim Brotherhood specifically to silence debate.

Liberals and leftists ignore the fact that Islam is an ideology that has nothing to do with race.
Islamophobia is a neologism created to silence any possible debate about the problems Islamic extremism has got with modernity, with the intention of using the collective post-colonial "guilt" to exempt a particular set of beliefs from scrutiny, analysis and criticism.
It's a buzzword used in an attempt to silence anyone, whenever had legit questions or criticisms about the religion.

Islam is not a race. It's a religion.
There is an attempt in the West to impose a sharia-blasphemy law to criminalize criticism of Islam.
It started when Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries tried to pass a UN resolution to force Western states to criminalize criticism of Islam. The Parliament in Canada passed "Motion M-103" to condemn the so-called "Islamophobia (Fear of Islam)" in a preparation for a blasphemy law in Canada.

According to the sharia blasphemy law anyone who criticizes Islam or the Prophet Muhammad should be killed.
Under Sharia blasphemy law in Saudi Arabia and Iran Muslims are executed if they are accused of blasphemy.
In Pakistan, the situation is even worse, radical Muslims use the blasphemy law to persecute the Christian minority.
Is this the law the liberals in the West want to adopt?

[Balanbam00]

By the way can anybody bring up lots of topics Corbyn etc Labour ? So that BT will concentrate less on the Predition league ??