R.I.P. The Sundance Kid.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20250916&instance_id=162641&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=74869138&segment_id=206005&user_id=b29b275d70e18dc2123391cee72cf5e1

[alfinyalcabo]

R.I.P. Robert,great actor and human being..

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I'm wondering Alfie if it's actually worth posting on here anymore?

[Balan]

B T . Know your words flow to far away places. ( bringing a smile to me ) Keep it up ,do you want that sadness greets me?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I'm sick of apathy Balan. I'm sick of what Israel is doing in the West Bank and Gaza. I'm sick of racism in Britain. I'm sick of British politicians. I'm sick of Netanyahu and Trump.

[Supersub6]

I'm sick of apathy Balan. I'm sick of what Israel is doing in the West Bank and Gaza. I'm sick of racism in Britain. I'm sick of British politicians. I'm sick of Netanyahu and Trump.

BT, just accept that ALL these worried are beyond your control and you are wasting energy worrying. It is not apathy, it is reality that everything, in the main, is way beyond our control. Just live your life, be kind and helpful to anoyone who needs you aid and be happy in the fatc that you are doing your best, in spite of everything which is happening around you.
If you win billions of pounds you will be accepted into the inner sanctum and will get your say otherwise................. life goes on!

[Balan]

I'm sick of apathy Balan. I'm sick of what Israel is doing in the West Bank and Gaza.

'Whose land was it originally, Israel or Palestine?
By more than 1,000 years, “Israel” predates “Palestine.”

Judea and Samaria were a central part of the historic homeland of the Jewish people1 from 1200 BC onwards. During a period spanning more than 1,000 years the Jewish people settled the land

The League of Nations granted Britain a Mandate for Palestine in 1922 to administer the territory, which included the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" (the Balfour Declaration) while protecting the rights of existing Arab communities
Britain was entrusted with administering Palestine after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I.

The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine included conditions for establishing a Jewish national home that were foundational to the creation of Israel. However, the British were also tasked with protecting the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities, primarily the Palestinian Arabs. This dual and often contradictory obligation contributed to decades of conflict.
Key conditions relating to Israel
The Mandate, established in 1922, incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," recognizing the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land.

In 1948, Jordan occupied the West Bank and annexed it in 1950. In 1967, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the Six-Day War.

November 2, 2017, marks 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, a historic statement of sympathy issued by the British government for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.

The Declaration expressed the British government’s recognition of and support for the inalienable right of the Jewish people for self-determination in their historical homeland, the Land of Israel.

(The Declaration refers to the Land of Israel as “Palestine,” since this was the common geographical denomination of the area at the time, without any political or ethnic connotation. Everyone living there was called "Palestinian," Jew and Arab alike).

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Your history lesson is much appreciated Balan.

It does not however provide contemporary Israel with a free hand to dispose of 7 million Palestinians.