When civilians are armed and holding hostages on behalf of a terrorist organization, hostages which were taken in a terrorist raid, even if they are holding the hostages in their home, they become combatants and legitimate targets. I agree. And the (reported) maybe 100+ or probably more, including ...

Laan Yaa Mo wrote: ↑

June 10, 2024, 6:22 pm

It was 22 miles back in the seventies or so a Toronto website suggested. My mistake.

A mere typo.

Laan Yaa Mo wrote: ↑

June 10, 2024, 5:07 pm

The annual 'Walk with Israel' event used to cover 2 miles in the seventies, but only 6 kms. these days. In the event, it was a nice turnout.

The linked article says that it was the largest such turnout ever in Toronto. As an aside, 6 km. is approximately 3¾ miles. And, yes, a great turnout!

"Are you here to free hostages, take me and my family off to a prison cell, or just kill me?" Hamas chose to hide the hostages in civilian areas, even in civilian residences. As one Palestinian said, “I am also angry because Hamas chose to hide these people among us,” he said. “Why?” When civilians...

Doodoo wrote: ↑

June 10, 2024, 8:46 am

If you had someone banging on your door I think you would take up arms regardless of age

Not sure what you're talking about here. You mean Hamas banging on the door ordering them to house and guard a hostage? You mean the IDF banging on the door to free the hostage? Something else?

For those who do care, it appears that some Israeli hostages died during the IDF rescue mission. Like the Palestinian "collateral damage", this wasn't previously disclosed on Netanyahu's media drip-feed on the hostage rescue. Not a good look at all. The news reports that I saw shortly after the rai...

jackspratt wrote: ↑

June 8, 2024, 8:11 pm

- an end to indiscriminate IDF bombing of Gaza, with totally disproportionate innocent deaths

I can't say that I'm shocked that this is a bit one sided. How 'bout an end to the daily rocket and terror attacks against Israel. Or don't innocent Israeli deaths matter as much to you?

Are they going to keep disproportionality slaughtering innocent civilians in the quest for a Hamas fighter here, or there? Are you going to keep calling out Israel while continuing to give Hamas a free pass? And I'm still waiting for your suggestion on how to fight Hamas, or any terrorist group whi...

Humiliate Trump into publicly apologizing to the American public for the election interference and for his life of deceit as well as Stormy for calling her "horseface" repeatedly and for many other shameful things he does day and in day out. He's never going to apologize. That's just not in him psy...

This will be interesting for U.S. citizens. In the U.S., you get a tax credit for taxes paid to a foreign government. Someone is undoubtedly going to figure out a way to optimize taxes between Thailand and the U.S. so as to minimize them.

Trump needs to be locked up, and the world protected from his delusions, but I fail to see which ethnic group he is determined to exterminate. Maybe he is more like Franco, Tojo and Mussolini than Hitler. I agree, he deserves prison time for the damage he has already done to the democracy, let alon...

I find it interesting and disappointing that the ICC seems to equate the actions of Hamas and Israel as equally bad. For example, it's accepted South Africa's complaint against Israel for genocide, yet Hamas' stated purpose is genocide, not the case with Israel.

Youtube videos are no longer appearing on my PC, in either in Firefox or Chrome. And ones that were there previously have now disappeared. This is in both the Jokes thread, and Favourite Music thread. However, they do appear on my Android tablet and phone. Sounds like YouTube maybe have changed som...

Doodoo wrote: ↑

June 2, 2024, 7:22 am

Have you a link to this RD Site?

This might be what you're looking for: https://www.rd.go.th/english/6045.html

2. Does Hamas bear any responsibility for putting its own civilians in harms way when it bases its terror activities embedded in civilian populations and locations (like schools, hospitals, etc.)? Of course it does - it is self evident. And yet it seems that nearly all of your posts on this subject...

As far as I am concerned, it just diverts attention from what I am more interested in, and will continue talking about - highlighting the ongoing slaughter and starvation by the IDF of Palestinian women and children in Gaza, and the complicity of Netanyahu and his cronies in what are now being inve...

Thaksin to be indicted on lese-majeste charge

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/po ... ste-charge.

Hamas launched rockets into Israel from locations in Rafah that were close to a mosque and near a hospital. I wonder why they did that? Don't they know that the IDF eventually will retaliate? Are they not cognizant of the extreme risk they expose their innocent citizens to? Your condescension is re...

I can see how Sport came to that conclusion. But let's hear it directly: Jack , how do you feel about Hamas and, separately, Israel? Given your previous posts, and your redactions, I am not surprised that you arrived at that conclusion. I didn't say that I agreed, I said that I can see how he got t...

Anybody who thinks killing 35,000 people, mainly civilians, is a justified response to a terrorist group killing 1200 of your citizens, obviously has little regard for human rights as well. Do you think that Hamas bears any responsibility for the civilian deaths for waging its terror war from withi...