So, what are your thoughts on the Gaza conflict?

(__, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:32, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I think you may betray your own prejudices
by referring to it as a 'conflict', which would imply it being two sided.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:40, Reply)

*Insert alcoholic footballer related gag here*

(GloriaHull you puerile slack-jawed drooling meatslapper, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:43, Reply)

It's just another fuckup
In a massive history of monumental stupidity, chaos and lots and lots of innocent victims that is probably gonna end in some sort of bloodbath. I give the entire Gaza strip/Palestine/Israel area a decade at most before most of it is turned to glass, ash and glows at night.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:47, Reply)

I had a dream the other night
where I asking someone about it and indicated that I didn't know what the Gaza strip was.

They beckoned me to the window and showed me a strip of land about a metre or two wide on the near side of a river.

I was like "that's it? fucking losers"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:48, Reply)

Jews fight muslims, muslims fight jews
etc
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:51, Reply)

@Peter Davison
What do you think then?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:51, Reply)

I think
Both sides should be armed to the teeth with tanks, guns, planes, helicopters atomic, biological & chemical weapons and the winners can finally, once and for all claim ownership of the resulting pile of desolate ashes and uninhabitable rubble
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 11:53, Reply)

Maybe Tim Minchin could go over...
This song may or may not help...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 12:10, Reply)

Sadly
This is not the usual religious war about "who's got the best imaginary friend". Both sides have the same one FFS! They just differ about the interpretation of the translation of the translation of the passed-down hearsay of some guys millenia ago.

I'd weep if I gave a fuck.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 12:18, Reply)

War - What is it good for?
Absolutely Nothin'

One can appreciate the grievances of both sides, but the West Bank Palestinians are still going to get shat on no matter what.

I hate seeing any conflict, I wish I knew the answer to solving this one.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 5 Jan 2009, 12:25, Reply)

Release the radioactive ferrets!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 12:31, Reply)

I refer the honourable poster to my Main Board post on the subject:

( Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 12:47, Reply)

I think she deserved it.

/Sheryl Gascoigne joke, topical circa 1994
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 13:12, Reply)

Harry Hill should be the mediator.
So, there's only one way to sort this out.......
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 13:13, Reply)

I don't think they should have brought the children into it
and they certainly shouldn't have made a television programme all about it.

He should be allowed to quietly drink himself to death just as George Best did before him.



/coat.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 13:32, Reply)

i've just had lunch
vegetable dumpling dynamite from itsu. itsu may just be the best thing in the whole world, ever. really tasty broth stuffed full of noodles and vegetables (or salmon, chicken or duck according to taste), dumplings etc. very low fat, very delicious, and appeals to my huge sense of greed by being served in a bucket the size of a tin of dulux.

mmm. itsu.

i thought /talk liked to talk about lunch, so am just trying to fit in and make friz feel at home.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 13:32, Reply)

The only solution to it
will be to let them all kill each other, as that seems to be what they most desire to do.

If I were King Of The World, I would cordon off the Middle East and order that anyone crossing either in or out would be killed without any questions asked. I would then wait fifty years, the go deal with whoever is left. Hopefully by then the crazies will have all killed each other, and whoever is left will be the sane ones who had the sense to hide. If they aren't- close 'em back up again for another fifty years.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 5 Jan 2009, 14:50, Reply)

Interview every last person in the area and ask them - Are you prepared to die for this war/the cause?

a) Yes
b) No

Whisk everyone who answered b) off somewhere for a while and let everyone who answered a) fight to the death.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 15:11, Reply)

At the risk of sounding like Mr Daily Mail...
...most observers have missed the point that Palestinian civillians continue to be treated like shit. Israeli blockades ensure that little economic aid gets through and that roadblocks mean day to day life is very tough for Palestinians. Their own leaders aren't doing much to ease their plight either.

To a lesser extent, Israeli civillians are suffering thanks to the bombardment from crudely assembled missiles.

Turning our backs on the Middle East ain't the answer IMHO, we created the problem in the first place so the least we can do is try and sort it out.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 5 Jan 2009, 15:44, Reply)

Conflict you say?
Or just another way for the US to use up their old military stock and test new ones?

*cough*

We buggered it up in 1919, yet the US pay the Israelis arms budget, and we stand idly by. Fantastic.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 16:55, Reply)