Not in my name either.
Every UK missile, shell, bullet, and litre of jet fuel needs to be conserved for protecting Ukraine from Russia.
Of course shooting down a drone which would have potentially otherwise killed someone has considerable merit which needs to be given proper consideration.
I agree.
Once I realised that both sides are as bad as each other I disengaged with this conflict with just a fool's hope remaining that they all one day see sense.
It's inexplicable now.
A terrible, evil act by Hamas.
Followed by further evil revenge by Israel - which will not achieve their strategic aims and will make their future worse.
*shakes head, no further words*
That is quite a bit of an issue I fear ( a hopefully groundless fear ). I heard on an interview on Radio 4 about a month ago ( obviously the interviewee's opinion ) that the political and military branches of Hamas don't always have the same agenda.
The way the thread has moved away from news to eternal arguments makes that tempting, for sure. I have held off on pushing the "ignore thread" in an ever forlorn hope of news of the hostages.
I think I agree that Israel fell into Hamas' trap and has reacted exactly as Hamas planned. A...
The Butcher of Moscow is on the arrest list solely for the forced deportation of children to Russia. None of his other war crimes have an arrest warrant sadly.
I suppose there is a parallel with the taking of child hostages by Hamas but inconsistently there is no arrest warrant for that yet...
Yes. Because it was a war crime.
Amnesty blamed Ukraine for stationing soldiers within cities though, which was a very weird take, but there was rightful outrage about that Amnesty report at the time.
No point in playing distasteful "Genocide Olympics" though to point score which genocide is...
Is thinking 'both sides are as bad as each other' both anti-semitic and islamophobic at the same time ?
Because that's where my thoughts are heading.
Enough.