P.K.

As Henning Wehn put it on seeing them on display in windows, gardens etc: "Nothing says "Welcome to England" like the flag of St George..."

It's called living in Reality Land. You should try it some time...

Which really demonstrates what a paucity of "talent" there is in the current shower occupying Downing Street...

Keep sucking those lemons...

Strange. Just about every night there's footage of parents weeping over body bags in hospitals etc etc. They're obviously choreographed for the cameras mind. There was similar footage some months ago of body bags being buried in the hospital grounds because they couldn't put them anywhere else. Due to their popularity anyone who wants to be interviewed is likely to be a Hamas supporter. It has been said that some bodies had their hands tied behind their backs. It seems to me that if a war crime has been committed it would take someone very very stupid to leave incriminating evidence behind that was bound to be discovered. But as there's little chance of any non-partisan reporting only an idiot would take anything at face value. Especially from a terrorist organisation...

I'm sure you would have noticed, because you're very sharp like that, the piece carefully states it's "unverified" information...

Ah yes, Al Jazeera the Qatar state-owned and funded media outlet. By an amazing coincidence not Qatar also funds Hamas. Who would have thought it...? Dear me but you're gullible...

The most gullible poster in the world... 210 bodies recovered from temporary mass graves in Nasser hospital compound – local authorities Palestinian civil defence authorities in the Gaza Strip said on Monday it had now uncovered 210 bodies from a temporary burial ground inside the main hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. Associated Press reports the burial area in the Nasser hospital was built when Israeli forces were besieging the facility last month. At the time, people were not able to bury the dead in a cemetery and dug graves in the hospital yard, the civil defence group said. In a statement, the department said a total of 210 bodies have been recovered from the hospital yard since Friday. It said some of the bodies were of people killed during the hospital siege. Others were killed when Israeli forces raided the hospital, also last month. After the military withdrew from Khan Younis earlier this month, residents have been returning to the site in search of the bodies of their loved ones with the aim of burying them in permanent graves elsewhere.

Nethanyahu clearly thinks so...

Amongst all the pink fluffy bunny talk you have posted as far as I can tell the only military "tactics" it includes seems to be no ground incursion and use smart munitions to try and kill off Hamas. All of which nonsense will be viewed as a victory by Hamas who will continue to fire rockets at Israel. You know the type of rockets they use i.e. you put a 66 kilo Grad rocket in a bottle, light the blue touch-paper and retire. Isn't that right...? Also the idea that words will somehow end Palestinian support for terrorist organisations is a total nonsense. The place is bombed to shit and yet most Palestinians still think the brutal assault on Oct 7th was the right thing to do! No amount of words will change the "Death to Israel" ethos that Palestinians grow up with...

Booths are going checkout only. Posh or not maybe this is the reason: "Throughout 2023, the problem of retail crime hit the headlines. The 2023 Crime Survey by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) found that retail crime had cost businesses £1.76bn during the 12-month period to April, and more than 850 incidents of violence or abuse against retail staff are reportedly happening every single day. What’s more, a separate BRC survey of members found that levels of shoplifting in 10 major cities had risen by an average of 27%."

So what, in your esteemed opinion, are they supposed to do? They drop leaflets telling the populace to get the fuck out of Dodge and they're ignored. So when they do the daily ATC and come under fire if civilians are in the area (don't forget here that Hamas are civilians) are they supposed to just pack it in and scurry back to barracks taking their dead and wounded with them? What a lot that will achieve not... So come on Napolean. What tactical genius ideas do you have to get the Gazans out from under the yoke of Hamas...? All the time bearing in mind, of course, that the only settlement solution Hamas would ever agree to is the destruction of Israel and all It's people...

I think “truth loop” is stretching it a bit…

Yes, Hamas really just don't care. Commanders on the ground have to balance the risk between collateral damage and losing more of their own people. As they have been tasked with destroying Hamas that has to be their priority. As we have seen dropping leaflets to clear the line of fire just doesn't work with some folks. On their own heads be it as the alternative will be just more of the same until Hamas are finished with. I see a US $26bn aid package to Israel is in the offing. That might make even Netanyahu take notice...

Because they're kept in the line of fire by Hamas supporting parents...? In every conflict, but especially in an urban insurgency, the innocents always suffer disproportionately. Unfortunately It's in the nature of the beast. Plus, of course, Hamas embed themselves as deeply as they possibly can because, as we have seen, they just don't care... Surely you already know this...?

Ah yes, the much hackneyed "sovereignty" with a hefty dose of "immigration" mixed in...

I think knocking on doors and asking the inhabitants if they have any Palestinian Resistance Fighters or Islamic Jihadis round for afternoon tea is a very risky strategy that would never work out in somewhere like Rafah. The usual tactical Advance To Contact (ATC) and when you draw fire calling it in for indirect artillery or fast air support is the way to go. Especially if It's Intelligence driven. These days they claim that if the co-ords are accurate they can put a shell or a bomb in a dustbin. Although why you would want to destroy someone's rubbish was never explained... By now they should be very good at it as well.

It would only be relevant if what he said was untrue. https://nixons.substack.com/p/how-brexit-wrecked-the-stock-market

Every time someone complains about the way the IDF are carrying out their orders I simply ask for their alternative strategy...? Modern warfare is all about winning with the least casualties to your own side*. So ideally you want to manoeuvre your enemy into such a place where they can essentially be massacred from a position of complete safety. Anything less simply means unnecessary losses to your own side. Which are to be avoided as much as is possible. As of today in the "Swords of Iron" operation the IDF have had 260 KIA and 3,267 WIA some 512 of which are VSW. There are also 1,139 Israeli civilians killed on 7th October to add to the list. Of course all these numbers would be zero but for the Hamas assault. That according to a recent poll 71% of Palestinians supported. Bearing in mind what took place on that day it's quite disgusting really... The only way to destroy Hamas and their rocket launchers is boots on the ground which is a very dangerous way of doing things. However they had the good sense not to just rush in to what would no doubt be prepped killing grounds and instead planned it through. The infantry advance with armoured support and if they get held up they just call in indirect fire both artillery and fast air. Like the US protecting their forces as far as possible with overwhelming firepower. But they still have to take Rafah which will be the toughest nut to crack with the likelyhood of lots of casualties on both sides. I guess we'll find out... *Unless you are a dictatorship like Russia where there is no accountability for enormous losses...

@manxman1980 Define what would be a "more measured campaign" please ie what tactics should they have used?

@manxman1980 Define what would be a "reasonable" response...?

Reduced to playing the man and not the ball. Again!

There was a poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research recently. All the various media outlets have their own take on the results. However they all seem to agree on this: "According to the poll, only seven percent of Gazans blamed Hamas for their suffering. Seventy-one percent of all Palestinians supported Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on October 7 — up 14 points among Gazans and down 11 points among West Bank Palestinians compared to three months ago. Fifty-nine percent of all Palestinians thought Hamas should rule Gaza, and 70 percent were satisfied with the role Hamas has played during the war." https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-popular-among-palestinians/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-increasingly-happy-with-october-7-even-as-hamas-support-droops-poll/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/over-70-percent-of-palestinians-support-hamass-october-7-terror-attack-poll/ etc... So if the IDF are not allowed to finish the mission there will be a cadre of Hamas left to re-grow the organisation with Iranian arms and money. Hamas and Gaza will put that down as a win. Hamas recruitment will swell the ranks. Israel will await the next assault. Rinse and repeat...

More facile nonsense. The election was in 2006 ffs!

The Palestinians voted for Hamas and their ideology: "HAMAS emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. The group is committed to armed resistance against Israel and the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state in Israel's place." So for once you're right. The death and destruction in Gaza was bound to follow...