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So, yeah, maybe not a good sort of person, but compared to his contemporaries, he stood out for his ability, but was fairly normal for his virtue, or lack thereof. I think the consensus, and cerftainly my opinion, is that he ranks as the 4th-worst war criminal in all history, only being surpassed b...

No love for Henry in these parts, eh? To be honest, I know little about him. I was 14 when his involvement with government ended, so to me he was mostly just this old talking head. He had a reputation for being very smart and very arrogant. Reading some things about him today, and I mean literally t...

It's the exact equivalent of shooting pilots parachuting from their plane. In WWII that was classed as a war crime. To be fair, the Hamas fighters were not uniformed and were on a mission to murder civilians, so the lawyers would probably draw some distinction there. But these ladies didn't seem al...

That's truly fucking sickening. They're being hailed as heroes. Netanyahu congratulated them personally. For me, there's a combination of admiration and disgust at the same time. So, they described coming across some Hamas fighters lying on the road, probably dead, possibly disabled, and what is th...

Has everyone read Rudyard Kipling's "The Female of the Species"? This is what he meant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjy0wpdSAI0 (For people who don't watch youtube links, there's a few female tank crews who fought on October 7. They are being highly praised for killing a large number o...

The root of the problem:

I've been searching for more information about the current state of the refugee camps in Gaza. I came across this: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-774874 It's Netanyahu saying that the UN should get in there to do something to help the displaced Palesinians, but the UN, and the aid agencie...

I wouldn't need to do a very detailed analysis of the cost/benefits of setting up camp for 2M people to show that it's a far cheaper and better option than bombing the shit out of the place. UNICEF, Oxfam, STC and every aid agency would have been jumping at the chance to be safely involved. .I'm no...

If you agree, then what do you think Israel should do differently than what it is doing now? If they hadn't immediately made the knee-jerk reaction they were always going to there were a number of options they could have done which would have preserved lives while attaining the goal of removing Ham...

not to defend Hamas, but their brutality is a sign of their poverty. They can't drop bombs from planes, like we do. That kind of murder is tidier. Still, the kids die. Israel's response wasn't exactly 'non-brutal. They can't really claim a moral high ground, can they? Compared to Hamas, I think the...