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The IDF have been tasked to destroy the remaining Hamas terrorists ASAFP. That's the only answer...

Apparently the Hamas "negotiating position" is a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza knowing perfectly well that it would be totally unacceptable to the Knesset to just hand them a victory. So the inevitable response is the IDF will now start advancing into Rafah.

Palestinians are being told to evacuate around Rafah as a prelude to an IDF operation: Israel Gaza live updates: Israeli military calls on Gazans to leave parts of Rafah https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-68963839

They delayed implementing it for three years. Was that "planned for" as well? Don't think so... Dear me, "sensationalist rubbish" from the Daily Mail? Surely not!

Because of the elections I decided to watch Laura Kuenssberg this am. I normally don't bother because she is very anti anyone but the tories who she always gives a very easy time of it. Not for nothing did Dominic Cummings frequently say in number 10 "Give it to Laura and Robert (Peston)".... Anyway Suella Braverman was on making her pitch for the tory leadership. It was dreadful even by her own appallingly low standards. According to her there is no "superman or superwoman" who can replace Sunak and make things better. Subtext: except for Suella Braverman of course... I switched it off before it made me throw up...

@John Wright Not sure where to start with this pile of poo! The 500 or so armed members of EOKA wanted to end British Rule and merge Cyprus with Greece. That ended well... Same story with the Mau Mau wanting to end colonial rule of Kenya. They were eventually beaten by British forces and by detaining the disaffected Mau Mau supporters in what were essentially concentration camps. In Malaya similarly there was an insurgency wanting an independent and communist country who even murdered the British High Commissioner! They were beaten back and eventually faded away. One of the tactics that helped the British to win was the building of fortified villages that was also adopted in Vietnam. The British Army got involved in NI because the civil authorities had lost control of the situation with Protestants burning out Catholics. The British Army stabilised the situation and prevented more Protestant attacks. In all of these "examples" the destruction of a sovereign state and the driving of the survivors into the sea was never the driving force for action. This made me wonder "Destroying civilian infrastructure and killing civilians drives the insurgents/terrorists/freedom fighters/liberation or independence fighters underground" because in NI the Irish Republican so-called "Army" (what a joke that is!) an "underground" organisation were responsible for destroying civilian infrastructure and murdering innocent civilians! As for this nonsense "You’d not have suggested a scorched earth policy against every Catholic ghetto, residential area, school, church, hospital, in Northern Ireland, would you?" those who live in NI are British Citizens ffs! I cannot make a judgement on this claim because I have never patrolled with the IDF. Have you?

The task is to eliminate the Palestinian Resistance Fighters and destroy as much of their infrastructure as possible. The more of this they achieve the longer it will take Hamas to come back in any numbers. Surely even you must agree that the destruction of a terrorist group is a worthy aim...?

Your "No" simply reinforces the point that there are some things you just can't bring yourself to acknowledge... So how are you going to mete out justice to the leadership in Tehran...?

Of course the leadership of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Mad Mullahs are all as pure as driven snow... Maybe one day you will understand that sometimes people have to make difficult decisions and then others have to get hard, ugly things done. Not because they want to, but because they have to...

Note in the survey the IOMSPCo have no "Value For Money" rating. Presumably this is because they couldn't find any...

Very wary of it's negative effect the appalling UK Gov have delayed this implementation how many times now...? Not so much a question of "could's" but rather a question of "how much???!!!". Britons finally taste full Brexit as costly border checks begin - The Japan Times: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/04/27/companies/brexit-border-checks-begin/ Brexit - the gift that keeps on taking...

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...