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Middle East Conflict
- Thread starter The blue phantom
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Saudi ambassador this a.m.:
The problem is not settlers settling in the West Bank. It's them settling in the Israeli government.
Did he have anything to say about the problems in Yemen?
The blue phantom
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Apparently he said that £20 Billion worth of arms from the UK is money well spent.Did he have anything to say about the problems in Yemen?
Apparently he said that £20 Billion worth of arms from the UK is money well spent.
Some of your biggest enemies can make very strange bed fellows as and when it suits…
The Genocide Convention and the Fourth Geneva Convention (which relates to the treatment of civilians during war) both postdate the second world war, during which the allies (and the axis too, obviously) did things which would now be illegal. The horrors of that war are the main reason for the development of the modern international legal regime around war. Israeli spokespeople like to cite, for example, the allied firebombing of Dresden but there's a strong argument that would be a war crime if it happened today.I am not down playing the casualties. My focus is on the definition of the word "genocide".
Assad is deliberately targeting civilians who are protesting against his policies. Israel is fighting against Hamas who invaded their country, murdered more than a thousand citizens and took hundreds as hostage.
Millions of Germans and Japanese died during the second world war as a result of their government policies at the time. Thousands of Palestinians are getting killed today because oi their government policy. This is an unfortunate occurrence during a war and not a genocide. Real definition of genocide was what happened in places like Rwanda where hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians were murdered primarily because of their ethnicity.
cucumberman
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Roger Waters saying as it is
The blue phantom
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Roger Waters saying as it is
If only there were more like Roger who say it how it is.
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Some squirming going on here...
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The Future’s Blue!
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Some squirming going on here...
Why so defensive, just fucking tell it as it is.
Pathetic twats!