Death of Innocence.

[j.sabourn]

In the car ? JS
Failing that in my cargo pants pocket. And failing that down the front of my Y fronts as a make believe Wotsa ! JS.

[Johnny Kieran]

Fing is, when you look back in history, much of the middle east was inhabited by Jews. Then just over 2000 years ago, some of it turned a bit Christian. Then about 1400 years back, ***** became the main thing. I think the Jews were the only lot to stick to their original religion, which the Islamic lot hated them for. Hence how it is today.

[thomas michael]

hi john sabourn #161
good morning once again, But yes that makes perfect sense, trust a renowned and celebrated leader of men like yourself to come up with the obvious solution.All we need now is to find enough aircraft for the D-Day 80th anniversary as the R.A.F can only muster one aircraft whilst this goverment spends millions on illegal immigrants and over a billion a month in foreign aid and whilst even the british troops surreptitiously serving in the ukraine, when the ukrainian menfolk are scattered all over this country ireland and europe whilst in the meanwhile the french cannot even bother flying a union jack in anticipation of the celebrations of the time that we and the yanks freed their country of the tyranny of germany.
tom

[j.sabourn]

Don’t know how we got onto aircraft shortage but as you know I reside amongst RAAF personnel and last year they received a Tornado aircraft from the RAF as a centre piece for one of their museum/ retirement villages. I told them at the time I hoped it wasn’t the one we pulled out of the Irish Sea in 1981 as was a bit worse for wear, however if it was it has been patched up since. Now I will have to tell them that the RAF maybe looking for it back. My landlords may knock a bit off the rent for the inside information. Hope your not like Cappy and want cutting into the deal as well. I’m only a poor old sailorman. Cheers Getting near my bedtime no doubt I’ll have nightmares tonight dreaming about zeppelins and tiger moths. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

I hear the ICC has issued notices for the arrest of Notayahho and his military leader along with the head of HAMAS.
They may get Notayahoo but some how the HAMAS guy will be much harder to find.

Both sides of this war are wrong, but then no one is right in war, only what is left.

Israel has the right, as do all nations, to defend it's self from aggressors, but if the TV pictures are correct and true it would appear that too many children and women have been killed.

There is an Australian doctor working there in one hospital, he was interviewed on TV tonight.

'WE have no medical equipment or drugs to help these people, we just have to watch them die. Bu this is not new, supplies have been short and in decline for over two years now, Israel has controlled how much comes into Gaza.'

Defense is one thing but on the face of it this is more like wholesale slaughter of innocents.

[Gerard Fisher]

#165 John

It would be truly remarkable if Netanyahu were to be found guilty of political criminality by the Israel courts and of war criminality by the ICC. I know of no precedent.

[Gerard Fisher]

#152 Thomas

I've always considered the myth of Ethiopian descent silly. Although there was a slave trade in East Africa, killed-off by Britain in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the people taken as slaves to the Americas were of West African descent. A slave route from Ethiopia through Central African Republic and onward to slave ports in Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Dahomey, Ghana, etc, is far-fetched. A route through tropical rain forests and sub-Saharan terrain? I don't think so.

I've given this mythical Ethiopian ancestry some thought and I think there's a desire by Jamaicans who wish to imagine themselves descended from a noble kingdom.

[Gerard Fisher]

#167 Douglas

If it is Israel's intention to wipe out Hamas then the article I link to below reports an effective way of doing so.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mas-airstrikes

Trouble is, Hamas are of the people of Gaza, a lightly armed civilian militia. They have no army barracks, airfields or naval ports that Israel can attack. They live among the civilians because they are civilians. Any attempt to wipe them out would lead to the wiping out of the people of Gaza. Hence accusations against Israel of attempted genocide. From your articles I assume you are comfortable with that attempt. "Wipe the bloody lot out". But where does your visceral hatred of Palestinians come from?

Great Britain would have liked to wipe out the IRA back then but were intelligent enough to realise that doing so would have had a devastating impact on the Catholic population. It would have required collateral deaths of unimaginable proportions. I'm glad we didn't choose that route although it depresses me to think some in this country would have had no problem with that.

[Doug Hardie]

I have today read through a lot of these post in an effort to keep track of the subject “Death of innocence” I have failed miserably the text bounces from ancient History , Bin ladden being a pall of GWBush, through the D day landings to the IRA being Hero’s of the modern world . All I can say is evil is evil and there is no rhyme nor reason behind it other than Hate. Please think about that more carefully, and stop amplifying the cauldron of hate and remember the innocents before they are lost forever
Doug

[David E Hewson]

Babylon and Persia are completely different nations, peoples and societies. Persia is modern day Iran while Babylon is more Mesopotamia and Iraq. So even geographically, they are different. Babylonians: Mesopotamian slave-owning Semitic warlike people. Persia loosely corresponds to modern İran, whereas Babylon was in Iraq. The Persians conquered Babylon and added it to their Empire
DH