The West Bank.

[sinkov]

One bit of breaking news this morning that has taken me completely by surprise:

Netanyahu will negotiate with "terrorists".

Hamas somehow managed to take more than fifty women and kids hostage.

Netanyahu will swop 50 Jewish women and kids for 150 Palestinian women and kids who are currently locked up in Israeli jails, I presume incarcerated without trial.

My biggest question is how on earth are Hamas keeping the hostages safe when the IDF are reducing Gaza to piles of rubble?

Not sure why you are surprised mon ami, it's been talked about for several days now, as for the hostages, they're in the metro under southern Gaza which the IDF has not attacked yet. Interestingly I've read that the IDF are fully on board with a ceasefire, it was the more hard line Israeli politicians who needed bringing on board.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Not sure why you are surprised mon ami, it's been talked about for several days now, as for the hostages, they're in the metro under southern Gaza which the IDF has not attacked yet. Interestingly I've read that the IDF are fully on board with a ceasefire, it was the more hard line Israeli politicians who needed bringing on board.

It was the sheer amount of women and kids being used as pawns on both sides that surprised me mon ami.

[sinkov]

It was the sheer amount of women and kids being used as pawns on both sides that surprised me mon ami.

Nothing should surprise us any more mon ami, the whole situation in this day and age, besides being horrific, is absolutely surreal, how on earth has it been allowed to come to this ?

It's taken 15 years to get to October 7th 2023 and the world has not just sat back and watched but cheered Hamas on as they dug their own graves and that of thousands of Gaza citizens. Not just surreal, absolute madness.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Nothing should surprise us any more mon ami, the whole situation in this day and age, besides being horrific, is absolutely surreal, how on earth has it been allowed to come to this ?

It's taken 15 years to get to October 7th 2023 and the world has not just sat back and watched but cheered Hamas on as they dug their own graves and that of thousands of Gaza citizens. Not just surreal, absolute madness.

The blame game should have no part in this discourse mon ami.

It saddens me beyond my imagination that the Pope, the Archbishop of Bishop, the Islamic Allamah, the Jewish religious leaders and their ilk are not standing in their pulpits or soap boxes and loudly condemning the sheer barbarity being carried out on both sides.

[sinkov]

The blame game should have no part in this discourse mon ami.

Au contraire mon ami, we are not here by accident, this outcome has been planned for by Hamas, they built the tunnels, they murdered, raped and burnt alive innocent Israelis, they took women and children as hostages, they knew the IDF would come for them, they knew what they were doing, and what the Israeli response would be. They not only reject a two state solution, their stated aim is the destruction of Israel and the extirmination of the Jews. One of their leadership is already quoted as saying they will carry out further attacks on innocent Jewish Israelis as often as they can.

So you stroke your chin, sit on the fence and ponder mon ami. I know who to blame for this appalling loss of life, this catastrophic human tragedy. It has been quite deliberately engineered, those without blinkers on have seen it coming for years.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Au contraire mon ami, we are not here by accident, this outcome has been planned for by Hamas, they built the tunnels, they murdered, raped and burnt alive innocent Israelis, they took women and children as hostages, they knew the IDF would come for them, they knew what they were doing, and what the Israeli response would be. They not only reject a two state solution, their stated aim is the destruction of Israel and the extirmination of the Jews. One of their leadership is already quoted as saying they will carry out further attacks on innocent Jewish Israelis as often as they can.

So you stroke your chin, sit on the fence and ponder mon ami. I know who to blame for this appalling loss of life, this catastrophic human tragedy. It has been quite deliberately engineered, those without blinkers on have seen it coming for years.

I'm tired of the same old argument mon ami. If the Jews had not turned Palestine into an Occupied Territory Hamas would not exist.

But they did and here we are.

Speaking of blinkers those that are daft enough to believe there is any possibility of a Two-State solution to this problem really are as intellectually challenged as the terrorist organisation who may believe that Allah might help drive the Jews out of Israel.

The Clarets have more chance of winning this season's Premier League.

[sinkov]

I'm tired of the same old argument mon ami. If the Jews had not turned Palestine into an Occupied Territory Hamas would not exist.

But they did and here we are.

Speaking of blinkers those that are daft enough to believe there is any possibility of a Two-State solution to this problem really are as intellectually challenged as the terrorist organisation who may believe that Allah might help drive the Jews out of Israel.

The Clarets have more chance of winning this season's Premier League.

I agree about the Two State solution, anyone who thinks that possible when one side wants to wipe the other off the face of the earth, is not quite all there imo.