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So that was fun.
What are your opinions on the latest Isreal Gaza fracas?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:20, 170 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
I'm worried that certain red sea pedestrians on OT might be called up as reservists.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:23, Reply)
I think this would be a good time to revisit this class piece of internet.
www.b3ta.com/questions/pythonshame/post385927
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:37, Reply)
I think the most shameful part here
is the endorsement by Spanky.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:41, Reply)
I can't see Spanky there. I must be on his Jahled list.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:44, Reply)
I can't either.
Sad times.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:54, Reply)
Oh Christ.
Thank fuck I gave up drinking.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:50, Reply)
Hahahahahahahaha.
The SHAME!

Bless you.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:52, Reply)
is that what you call what people who walk behind b3th?

is that the /ot blobber?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)
Israel
Are using disproportionate force as always, and probably white phosphorus as well.

But hey, god said they could have Gaza.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:23, Reply)
And if Ireland shot dozens of missiles into Northern Ireland every day we'd just accept it?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:25, Reply)
no, but likely we'd hit specific targets
Not carpet bomb it.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:28, Reply)
Israel have been aiming for specific targets.
The issue is that these targets tend to contain lots of innocent civilians.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:29, Reply)
They've been pretty good considering they've done several hundred bombings and have less than 100 civilian deaths.
/last time I checked.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:30, Reply)
If you reduce things down to statistics, then yes.
But I wouldn't class 90 odd civilian deaths as 'pretty good'
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:36, Reply)
especially not when you consider
How advanced Israel's weaponry is compared to the Palestinians. It's like hitting back against peashooters with an Uzi.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:40, Reply)
Peashooters with a 30mile range and packed with sophisticated high explosives.
It's really a stupid argument to say the weaponry is not as advanced so it can't do any damage.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)
I'm not saying that.
But yeah, the analogy was bad. What I meant is that Israel are using disproportionate force, just as they did last time around. Plus, credible reports of white phosphorus being used, which is, as I understand it, prohibited.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:47, Reply)
Here's a list of all rocket and mortar attacks this year
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2012
I don't think that Israel have much of a moral dilemma in shooting at the people organising and funding this sort of prolonged campaign.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:51, Reply)
'Dilemma' would imply two choices.
And we all know how trigger happy they are. I think trilemma is more apt- negotiation, surgical strikes or carpet bombing military and civilian targets.

Wonder which one they'll choose?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:56, Reply)
It's well below their target.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:40, Reply)
Isreal hve beeen hittting specific targets
They specifically target a Hamas leaders house, unfortunatly there were dozens of other people, including women amd children that were in the house at the time.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:29, Reply)
Human shields, classy.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:30, Reply)
I don't think families living with you in your house
Counts as human shields, soz.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:34, Reply)
^what I was gonna say^

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:35, Reply)
not again!

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:37, Reply)
I shall have to start calling you 'broseph'
or, y'know, stabbing myself in the throat.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:39, Reply)
If only the two sides in this conflict could learn something from you two.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)
Israel really ought to have checked with them
to see when everybody except the guy they wanted was out. Perhaps by knocking and making an appointment.

Manners are sorely lacking these days.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:39, Reply)
yeah that, or send in Mossad agents or sutin
Or maybe enter into a peace agreement based on withdrawal from the Occupied Territories?

Who knows?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)
Maybe they have. I haven't seen PJM around in ages.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:45, Reply)
From what is currently reported. A seniour hammas militant was hiding out at the house
It wasn't his house.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:43, Reply)
Fucking cheat.
How are you supposed to have a good war if people keep cheating?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:46, Reply)
There are options other than just accepting it and massive over-reaction.
Exercising one of them is why we don't currently have the problems in Northern Ireland that we used to.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:29, Reply)
agreeing with CQ here

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:30, Reply)
Sad times.
But also proof of rightness. if we agree on anything it must be true.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:32, Reply)
I have a moustache at the moment too
Sad times :'(
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:36, Reply)
I, on the other hand, do not.
well, not a solo one, part of a goatee/van dyke ensemble.

However if you wan to feel superior I do have a bright orange mohawk.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:38, Reply)
a bright orange mohawk?
Fucking hell CQ, and how old are you?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:41, Reply)
37.5

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:41, Reply)
Well done K
Spot on.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:43, Reply)
Yup, although northern island didn't want England to not exist.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:39, Reply)
If you get too far into any analogy it breaks down
and I didn't bring up NI. I think my point that negotiation can bring peace when continued retaliation just keeps hostilities going still holds though.

this is a pragmatic point rather than an ideological one BTW.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:47, Reply)
See, I've been an atheist all my life.
My understanding is that most religions preach tolerance, understanding and, perhaps most importantly, that killing is wrong.
Despite my atheist upbringing I have come to this conclusion by myself.
My opinion is that they really ought to stop killing one another, especially given the overwhelming evidence that this approach hasn't been working for quite some time.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:26, Reply)
I can hardly agree with the random rocket attacks by Palestine
but the number of woman and childrena dn civlians killed in Isreali air strikes is shocking.

I think they are numb to the horror and damage they cause after so many years of fighting.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:26, Reply)
And the Isrealies have got an election coming in January.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:27, Reply)
And Israeli voters tend to favour hard-liners.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:28, Reply)
Isreal has a small man's complex

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:28, Reply)
Battered is Jewish?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:31, Reply)
But a large country's weapons supply.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:34, Reply)
Ah, Battered isn't Jewish then.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:36, Reply)
I wonder if he'll bring Isreal some chicken, a kebab and a few beers ?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:26, Reply)
I'm clicking this even if no-one else is

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:49, Reply)
Me too.
It's moaty-tastic.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:56, Reply)
Same ol' same ol', basically.
I'm kinda hoping the whole thing get so horrific that somebody actually does something, but given that the somebody pretty much has to be the US and the something is bitch-slapping Israel it won't happen.

I say we send Gruppenführer Boyce over there to bang some heads together.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:27, Reply)
ooh, I think I'll just sit back and watch this one play out.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:27, Reply)
And keep a running tally of who can spell 'Israel' correctly.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:28, Reply)
i've lost already : (

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:30, Reply)
In 194-something, Britain said
"Hey guys, why don't you go over here to this bit of the world we're abandoning and live on it like it's your own? Sure you'll be surrounded by hostile people of a differing and somewhat militant religion who all think you're interloping on their land and are therefore likely to get a bit testy about the situation, but as long as you react with overt aggression and carry on looking whiter than them, the West will probably take your side".

I can't see where it all went wrong. I didn't live during the days where the UK told the rest of the world what to do, but I think I would have liked it.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:28, Reply)
It was 1948. And we didn't give it, they took it.
And it was called Palestein, oops Palestine.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:57, Reply)
Really?
I could have sworn there was a settlement programme.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:01, Reply)
Ben Gurion introduced that after it became Israel.
They invited everyone "home".
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:07, Reply)
But the old country of Palestine was partitioned by the UN, in fact.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:08, Reply)
There was a land grab before the UN did it's worst.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:52, Reply)
Fucking backwards thinking and evil people.
Don't know what Hamas was expecting, or what Israel could have done differently. And I think Israeli government are horrific, but in this case on this latest bout, I don't know what they could have done differently.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:33, Reply)
They could both really do with winding their fucking necks in.
But I'm no diplomat.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)
Yeah, they can't BOTH surrender

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:51, Reply)
Agreed.
Or failing that a gown up needs to step in, take away their toys, kick both sides back behind the 1947 borders and spank the first one to cross then, with people, rockets or any fucking thing.

Oh and Jerusalem, as that seems to be a big cause of conflict, no one gets that. if they play nicely for a decade or so they can have it back if that promise to behave in future.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:56, Reply)
We should give Jerusalem to the Dale Farm evictees

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:58, Reply)
Works for me.
Frankly I'd nuke it to oblivion if the radiation could be confined to just that small area.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:59, Reply)
I think it's bad

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:40, Reply)
*sends pulitzer prize*

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)
What did he write?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:51, Reply)
a concise summary of how he feels about the 2012 israeli gaza war

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:54, Reply)
You've got to give it to him though, it was incisive and 100% accurate.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:19, Reply)
I assume these are two warring WoW factions

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:45, Reply)
alright Darth?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:51, Reply)
Afternoon McSquire
How are you keeping?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:53, Reply)
not bad.
When are you in Leeds next? We have that date.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:59, Reply)
Fuck knows mate
I'll most likely be in Bradford next August. How's that?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:01, Reply)
doable maybe.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:05, Reply)
I'll get in touch nearer the time
Will be in Halifax on December 29th but that's for a family thing, can't really piss off to Leeds on the lash for a few hours
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:10, Reply)
Yeah, basically Israel was grinding for reputation with their voters
to do this they had to take out a military leader.

Unfortunately, they seem to have aggro'd the entire camp.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:52, Reply)
Darth!

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:53, Reply)
Jimbojames!
Are we playing Name Each Other? Cos I think that's all I know about you. Sorry.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:59, Reply)
Hey, where did that go?
Or am I going mad?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:10, Reply)
You're not
I meant to reply to CQ and fucked it up like a mong
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:15, Reply)
Wotcha Sweet Cheeks
xxx
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:00, Reply)
Hello mate
How are you?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:08, Reply)
Not bad, a bit tired but generally cheery
yourself?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:10, Reply)
I've got drugs CQ!
LEGAL DRUGS!!!
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:16, Reply)
Cool, which ones?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:18, Reply)
Mirtazapine
I think
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:35, Reply)
I think Gazza should leave Israel alone.
Serious answer: I think there should be some pressure on Israel to stop this, a la the Suez Crisis - it strikes me that this is the sledgehammer vs nut scenario.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:52, Reply)
this.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:53, Reply)
Alright PDiddy?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:56, Reply)
It's the Israeli way

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:55, Reply)
Yes, but why?
Is it the massive backing by the US of A by any chance?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:58, Reply)
little bit, plus years of persecution and feeling threatened have left them with a complex

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:00, Reply)
And rightly so. Nearly every country around them wants them gone.
I think Hamas are getting Gazans killed. If they fucking behaved themselves it would stop.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:05, Reply)
A bit from A, a bit from B.
It's all a bit messy...
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:08, Reply)
I reckon Gazza should turn up to Gazza with a fishingrod and a bucket of KFC.
That'll sort 'em out.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:54, Reply)
Ahem
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1786073
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 12:59, Reply)
AWww MAAAAN

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:43, Reply)
Fuck all to do with this thread
but I've just found out that David Mitchell is marrying Victoria Coren.

Two things; their offspring will either be the greatest satirical, incisive comedian of all time, or everyone will assume it's adopted. Also; FINALLY! A man who's punching further above his weight than I am!
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:01, Reply)
Nope.
She's a hound. Her brother is a cunt.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:03, Reply)
She is NOT
He may well be.

Alright?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:09, Reply)
Very well, Mr D.
How are the mighty clan Foxtrot?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:10, Reply)
Mid-table obscurity beckons
and that suits us down to the ground mate. Myself, not so bad. Your lot are proving quite the surprise package.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:16, Reply)
I know. It's unbelievable.
I see tumbling down the league in our immediate future. We'll go fifth if we beat Stoke tonight though. Good times.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:18, Reply)
I just had a look at your next game.
Wolves will be a lively affair.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:22, Reply)
Bugger
I fucking hate Wolves
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:34, Reply)
I think she's pretty hot
but by God she's a Tory. Proper, dyed-blue-in-the-wool Conservative. So I couldn't have a long term relationship with her. That's why she's marrying Mitchell. Depression, you see.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:09, Reply)
Fuck her up the arse as an act of class war.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:11, Reply)
Bid o' polidicks there, laysunjennelmun!

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:12, Reply)
Do her on a double seat.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:22, Reply)
Don't get me wrong. I'd fuck it.
But she's not yer "classic beauty".
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:11, Reply)
Neither are we, son.
Well, you, anyway.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:12, Reply)
I get by alright. Don't you worry about old Stunned.
Old Stunned can look after himself in the minge dept. Oh yes.

Old Stunned.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:16, Reply)
You're sounding a little rapey, here

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:18, Reply)
Yeah.
Referring to yourself in the third person is never a good sign.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:19, Reply)
Especially with the "old" prefix.
It kind of conjures up images of piss-soaked trousers
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:20, Reply)
Is there a camera on this PC?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:23, Reply)
Thankfully not.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:26, Reply)
Yeah, I don't want to see Stunned with his cock in his hand




again
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:28, Reply)
You little fibber.
That's what I call it anyway.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:30, Reply)
No she isn't.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:12, Reply)
Alright, maybe not.
Whatever she is, she's a lot more polarised than I am. I had to end it, all that disapproval was getting on my tits.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:14, Reply)
She writes a weekly column in the Observer, and regularly in the Guardian.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:15, Reply)
Filthy Guardian split arse.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:17, Reply)
Everyone has a split arse don't they?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:21, Reply)

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=split%20arse

Woman. One who's bottom continues around the front.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:24, Reply)
What's wrong with the Guardian?

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:23, Reply)
Fucking bleeding heart liberals.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:25, Reply)
smug, hand wringing pricks

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:27, Reply)
Right-wing wankers.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:31, Reply)
lol

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:38, Reply)
Yep
Do you mind? Facts get in the way.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:17, Reply)
JUST found out?
Haven't they been engaged for over a year?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:23, Reply)
They're already married

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 14:01, Reply)
I am all for the ground assault.
And when they get Gaza they should take Syria. Fucking cheeky bastards firing at rebels and landing shells on Israel's bit of the Golan Heights.

And after that I reckon the England shouls take Scotland. Independence? We'll see about that McLaddo.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:02, Reply)
I think we should agree a timetable for Scottish independence.
One that hands it over in about 15 years, after the north sea oil no longer provides a decent income.
Let's see how keen they are then.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:24, Reply)
I think they should get it back before Xmas.
Stick uit up their arse and fuck off while they're doing it. Not forgetting to take their share of the HBOS and RBS debt. The ungrateful cunts.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:27, Reply)
In Xcom, right, all your soldiers have a nationality which they display via a flag on their back.
You can get all sorts, Nigeria, Israel, South Africa and also the United Kingdom.

The Scottish get their own. Just the Scots. There's no English, or Irish, or Welsh soldiers, they're all part of the UK. Scotland is separate. It's not the first time I've seen that happen in American-made stuff. I've seen it on a telly programme, too.

Seems they've already seceded, Stunned.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:33, Reply)
WHAT? Really?
That makes me want to vomit all over their so-called "nation".
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:36, Reply)
GAYtion more like

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:38, Reply)
Cuntry.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:40, Reply)
The fact that Americans are fucktards is hardly the fault of the Scotch, Stunned.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:56, Reply)
well many of them come from Scottish stock, so really it is

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:57, Reply)
Good point. Well made.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 14:01, Reply)
Many of the UK's population come from Viking stock
does that make it OK to blame Denmark for invading Iraq?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 14:04, Reply)
Yes

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 14:05, Reply)
Hey, if we develop water and wind power, we'll be fine.
You're the ones that'd be fucked when the reserves run out.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:27, Reply)
Go on then.
We'll just take it and you'd do precisely fuck all about it.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:29, Reply)
Yeah...
I'm sure we'll be begging for them to come back.
Also, I'm pretty sure WSM isn't in Scotchland.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:31, Reply)
shhh.
I'm going home for the New Year. I hope they don't close teh border or I might not get back.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:36, Reply)
Sneaked down here to work did you?
Didn't want to get knocked up by some Tannadice dole monkey?
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:39, Reply)
I sneaked down to steal an Englishman.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:44, Reply)
and he was just 2 days from retirement as well

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:45, Reply)
Sounds like an excellent time to close the border.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:39, Reply)
or this thread

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:46, Reply)
Israel are bullies that get away with it because the west have a knee-jerk reaction to Arab nations.
You can understand why they have a defensive mindset, considering what's happened to them in the past, but they seem to be going a little bit too far the other way.

Perhaps we should say "It's okay, it's safe now, you can all go back where you started off, and we'll give 'Israel' back to the Palestinians."
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:21, Reply)
yeah, great ideas there...

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:23, Reply)
That's what I thought.
I should go over there. I'd mod the FUCK out of them.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:24, Reply)
you couldn't mod a cat

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:25, Reply)
She couldn't mod a Vespa.

(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:28, Reply)
It's 2 years old
but this pretty much sums it up
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 13:53, Reply)
Fuck them all, bunch of backwards fucking savages the lot of them.
Round them all up, make every yid bloke take a raghead wife, every yid bint take a raghead husband. Give it 5 years or so.




Then gas the whole fucking lot of 'em.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 14:00, Reply)
SHIT, YEAH!
This is exactly the sort of reactionary leadership that this troubled part of the world needs!
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 14:02, Reply)
Wonder how long before America ride up on their steed
With us trailing behind, kicking up dust...

Do they have oil there?

They must.
(, Mon 19 Nov 2012, 15:03, Reply)

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