Middle East Conflict | Netanyahu orders strikes on Gaza (p1161)

Flights around the region started to be cancelled. I’m due to fly to the UK next Sunday for Summer Break from Dubai.
 
Friday. Pakistan nominates Trump for Nobel peace prize.

Sunday. Pakistan condemns warmonger Trump.

 
According to AI in answer to my question.

Which countries have been at war 30 percent or more of their existence?

The US comes first with a whopping 90 percent.

France, Britain, Russia, Turkey/Ottoman follow all around the 30 percent mark.
 
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Once its penetrated in 200ft and 2 ton of explosives gone off I doubt there's much of the complex left, think the Yanks are pretty certain they won't need to go back.
Normal nuclear waste ex say power stations used to be encased in glass or resin then buried in the bowels of the earth.
The problem in Southern Spain after the 1964? Hydrogen bomb accident is still leaving radioactive debris due to incomplete removal of contaminated earth from Spain to USA.
Think the problem is not the half life of the uranium or plutonium but the half life of the isotope it decays to.
 
make of this what you will.

Khamenei and his cronies are radical “Twelver” Shia Muslims who believe that the destruction of the Great and Little Satans are prerequisites for the reappearance of the Mahdi, the Shia messiah. This belief, not cold, realpolitik considerations is what underpins almost everything the Iranian regime does. They are fanatics every bit as dangerous as Osama bin Laden and his imitators.


The mullahs seek not only territorial expansion but also ideological, religious global domination. Iran's Twelver Shiite eschatology calls for targeting the United States and Israel, the “forces of injustice” and the “corrupt and arrogant powers,” as a prerequisite for the reappearance of the occulted Mahdi, the Shiite messiah.

Iran’s genocidal messianism justifies the regime’s systematic oppression of its Christians, Zoroastrians, and Baha'i. The regime also regards Sunni Muslim lives, including those of their Hamas proxies, as expendable, and Sunni regimes to be “illegal.”

 
make of this what you will.

Khamenei and his cronies are radical “Twelver” Shia Muslims who believe that the destruction of the Great and Little Satans are prerequisites for the reappearance of the Mahdi, the Shia messiah. This belief, not cold, realpolitik considerations is what underpins almost everything the Iranian regime does. They are fanatics every bit as dangerous as Osama bin Laden and his imitators.


The mullahs seek not only territorial expansion but also ideological, religious global domination. Iran's Twelver Shiite eschatology calls for targeting the United States and Israel, the “forces of injustice” and the “corrupt and arrogant powers,” as a prerequisite for the reappearance of the occulted Mahdi, the Shiite messiah.

Iran’s genocidal messianism justifies the regime’s systematic oppression of its Christians, Zoroastrians, and Baha'i. The regime also regards Sunni Muslim lives, including those of their Hamas proxies, as expendable, and Sunni regimes to be “illegal.”


A ‘righteous operation’?

Religious lunatics to the left of me, religious lunatics to the right of me and we’re stuck in the fucking middle.
 
The Iranians are floating the idea of closing the Straits of Hormuz.


The Strait is a pivotal trade route for the world, with around a fifth of the world's oil flowing through the tiny sea passage, along with the same proportion of all Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), making it the 'world's most important oil transit chokepoint'.

Gerrit Heinemann told Bild that should Iran choose to close the Strait, which borders the country, the results would be 'catastrophic.'

'[It would be] worse than Corona and Putin combined! The second episode of the ongoing crisis would be even more severe than what we experienced at the beginning of the Ukraine war and during the Corona years. A disaster,'

He told the newspaper: 'A large part of the global supply chains runs through the affected region. This not only dramatically impacts energy supplies, but also the flow of goods.

'All of a sudden, all the crises we had just overcome would return: the energy crisis, inflation, disrupted supply chains, and now the threat of mass unemployment.'

At its thinnest, it is just 21 miles wide, and the shipping lanes in the Strait are even smaller.

This makes it incredible vulnerable to attacks, which international leaders have already warned.​

Iraq's foreign minister Fuad Hussein warned of a 'global energy crisis' if the Strait is closed.

Cutting the world off from such a large source of energy would massively affect economies across the world, which still largely rely on non-renewable sources like oil for their needs.




Prof. Dr. Gerrit Heinemann is Professor of Business Administration, Management and Commerce as well as founder and head of the eWeb Research Center at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. He is one of the most distinguished retail experts in the German-speaking world.
 
make of this what you will.

Khamenei and his cronies are radical “Twelver” Shia Muslims who believe that the destruction of the Great and Little Satans are prerequisites for the reappearance of the Mahdi, the Shia messiah. This belief, not cold, realpolitik considerations is what underpins almost everything the Iranian regime does. They are fanatics every bit as dangerous as Osama bin Laden and his imitators.


The mullahs seek not only territorial expansion but also ideological, religious global domination. Iran's Twelver Shiite eschatology calls for targeting the United States and Israel, the “forces of injustice” and the “corrupt and arrogant powers,” as a prerequisite for the reappearance of the occulted Mahdi, the Shiite messiah.

Iran’s genocidal messianism justifies the regime’s systematic oppression of its Christians, Zoroastrians, and Baha'i. The regime also regards Sunni Muslim lives, including those of their Hamas proxies, as expendable, and Sunni regimes to be “illegal.”

Never heard of mediaite and it sounds bollocks. The sort of thing put out there to explain away what the US has done.

And it's all very well saying Iran wants to this, wants to do that but as I pointed out above the most aggressive nation on earth by a Bradmanesque margin is the USA.

I judge nations by their actions not their words, or indeed what they are supposed to have said, which may we'll be made up.
 
make of this what you will.

Khamenei and his cronies are radical “Twelver” Shia Muslims who believe that the destruction of the Great and Little Satans are prerequisites for the reappearance of the Mahdi, the Shia messiah. This belief, not cold, realpolitik considerations is what underpins almost everything the Iranian regime does. They are fanatics every bit as dangerous as Osama bin Laden and his imitators.


The mullahs seek not only territorial expansion but also ideological, religious global domination. Iran's Twelver Shiite eschatology calls for targeting the United States and Israel, the “forces of injustice” and the “corrupt and arrogant powers,” as a prerequisite for the reappearance of the occulted Mahdi, the Shiite messiah.

Iran’s genocidal messianism justifies the regime’s systematic oppression of its Christians, Zoroastrians, and Baha'i. The regime also regards Sunni Muslim lives, including those of their Hamas proxies, as expendable, and Sunni regimes to be “illegal.”

The Christian Zionist eschatology behind a lot of MAGA also involves a bit of "genocidal messianism". They support Israel because the return of Jews to the Holy Land is in preparation for the return of Christ (=Messiah), the death of two-thirds of Jews, and the end of this world.

Make of this what you will.
 
I just watched Lewis Goodall give this **** a hard time. He had the fuckin cheek to say "The only thing Israel has ever wanted is peace and to be left alone" Didn't want to engage with Lewis when he pulled him up on the Settlere either.

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I just watched Lewis Goodall give this **** a hard time. He had the fuckin cheek to say "The only thing Israel has ever wanted is peace and to be left alone" Didn't want to engage with Lewis when he pulled him up on the Settlere either.

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Interesting collection of models of terrorists on the shelf behind him
 
It’s all fucking awful.

Killing innocent people is a failure of multiple governments. A human failure to keep dialogue open.

Instead we are left with war after war, killing after killing with everyone picking sides. Sheer madness.

WW1 & WW2 has gone and went and we have learned fuck all from it.
 
I just watched Lewis Goodall give this **** a hard time. He had the fuckin cheek to say "The only thing Israel has ever wanted is peace and to be left alone" Didn't want to engage with Lewis when he pulled him up on the Settlere either.

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These people are not credible spokespeople as also their statesmen are not statesmen - all they do is push their line and if you disagree they just become shrill and shouty - they wouldn't stand 5 minutes in the real world - behave like that around anyone who just wants to question them would get them knocked on their arses or worse.

I note with interest that he did not mention hostages in Gaza once
 
These people are not credible spokespeople as also their statesmen are not statesmen - all they do is push their line and if you disagree they just become shrill and shouty - they wouldn't stand 5 minutes in the real world - behave like that around anyone who just wants to question them would get them knocked on their arses or worse.

I note with interest that he did not mention hostages in Gaza once
They could certainly learn a thing or two from this thread in terms of impartiality, real world, credible views and above all a lack of hatred for particular races and countries.

No one ever gets shrill and shouty on here either.
 
Never heard of mediaite and it sounds bollocks. The sort of thing put out there to explain away what the US has done.

And it's all very well saying Iran wants to this, wants to do that but as I pointed out above the most aggressive nation on earth by a Bradmanesque margin is the USA.

I judge nations by their actions not their words, or indeed what they are supposed to have said, which may we'll be made up.

How do you judge Iran?
 
They could certainly learn a thing or two from this thread in terms of impartiality, real world, credible views and above all a lack of hatred for particular races and countries.

No one ever gets shrill and shouty on here either.

I'm sure the Israeli regime would be on the vinegar stroke while reading all your comments on this thread.
 
As the major country in the middle east both in terms of history and population that hasn't invaded anywhere but is heavily involved in armed political activity in the surrounding countries which they absolutely have a right to do, given there is a nuclear armed Western colony in their midst.
 

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