One of the main reasons I can no longer be bothered indulging not just this message board but all others is the way furious discussion can pop into existence and then expand like a virgin universe, with everyone remonstrating with the kind of certainty usually associated with a FOX News mouthpiece or those handful of academics judged "respected authority" without anyone first ... say ... [ibothering to investigate which Israeli "peace settlement" conditions Hamas has refused to accept. [/i



Although, it would then be impossible NOT TO think about that which has been understood by EVERYONE since the very beginning and yet must always remain unspeakable.

All of which is caused by the dominance of rolling news snippets on TV and radio and news opinions in printed media - and our total acquiescence to this method of presenting opinion and propaganda as "official news" - 'twas always thus of course but is even moreso today when you don't even need to make an effort to watch or listen to "news", its on your phone in handy bite sized chunks or rolling across the bottom of your TV set while you eat breakfast.



What they say is what we digest, regardless of who is feeding them the stories.

Good to see Israel doing its bit to keep the natives sweet.



[url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-claims-400-hectares-in-west-bank-for-state-use-9702112.htmlIsrael to expropriate 400 hectares of West Bank[/url

And Israel still tries to claim it's wants peace with the Palestinians, what a joke.

Does Hamas want peace with Israel? Does Hamas even recognise the right for Israel to exist in any form?

This the Hamas whose popularity was down to 20% before Israel's murderous campaign against Gaza? Anyway why would anybody respect the rights of a state that stole your land at every opportunity?

"To the Victor the spoils." Surely, even someone as uneducated as yourself has heard that expression?



Gaza and the West Bank are now part of Greater Israel, in much the same way that Crimea is now Russian. Perhaps you would care to share your views on the antics of Comrade Putin?



And as for [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2741986/Israel-shows-evidence-rocket-fire-Gaza-schools.htmlHamas[/url, it looks like the IDF has created several years of rebuilding work for their 16000 members!



A cunning ploy. Idle hands and mischief are a couple of words which spring to mind......

One assumes this will be discussed at the NATO summit along with Russia's alleged incursion into Ukraine (which Calamity Cameron has as No 1 item on his agenda).

It's all gone quiet over there?

There's another royal baby on the way. The British media won't be bothering with reporting on wars now. They'll be more interested in potential baby names and what Kate Middleton is wearing.

To be fair to the foetus involved, it was not known to the public prior to the cessation of hostilities. It can claim IS & Ukraine bumped Gaza off the news.



There is also the fact that the vast majority of people I the UK probably couldn't care less about yet another round in the endless Jews vs Muslims tete a tete.

But the people who perhaps 'do care less' understand that the 'Jews vs Muslims tete a tete' is possibly the major destabalising factor to global peace upon this planet we currently inhabit.

Just saying.