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Mick Harper
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It is absurd Trump saying he's having difficulty persuading Zelinsky to make peace.
Zelinsky has accepted the thirty-day truce and has indicated he will accept its indefinite extension. That's what we call peace. The lack of war. It is Putin that won't accept it because he wants all sorts of other stuff.
If Trump has any sense he will bring all the pressure he can bring to bear on Putin to accept a truce. Then walk away. We will then all find out what everyone's bottom line is:
| "Now we are essentially back to where we were in February 2022, what are we going to do about it?" I promise you... |
* Neither Russia nor Ukraine will want to fight a Russo-Ukrainian War all over again.
* Neither USA nor Europe will want to get involved in Russo-Ukrainian affairs again.
* All will be well in the best of all possible worlds i.e. the one we live in.
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Ishmael
In: Toronto
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | There is another way of looking at it. If this stuff is left to the tender mercies of its legal owners, the people of Iraq, it will either be lost, neglected or ignored. If it is 'brought to' the west it will be seen by millions, studied by thousands and preserved sine die in air conditioned opulence. |
I was about to add this. Glad you did.
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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About 70% of what used to be Gaza are now no-go zones or areas that must be evacuated.
That is up from the 17% buffer zone. What the IDF are doing appears to be evacuating and then razing to the ground all buildings bordering the buffer zone, so incrementally increasing the size and space of the original border zone from its original 17% of Gaza to something like 70% of Gaza.
Whether the ultimate aim is to allow Hamas/the Palestinians/the Gazans the remaining 30% of Gaza, or the IDF want the full 100%, remains unclear.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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I can only discern two (rational) Israeli policy goals in Gaza:
1) To cause so much suffering that the Gazans will turn on Hamas as the cause of their misery. The Gazans stay, Gaza stays, Gaza becomes a peaceable neighbour.
2) To cause so much suffering the Gazans leave Gaza which then becomes .... well, it doesn't matter, so long as it is a peaceable neighbour.
To me, neither policy seems anywhere near being a practical possibility. Even if they are achieved, what comes after won't necessarily be much different from what is there now.
This being so, one must assume that the 'peaceable neighbour' policy is not being pursued and that Israel intends Gaza to be part of Israel. Not necessarily de jure 'Israel' but some kind of protectorate that makes it a de facto part of Israel.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Chutzpah in Action
Israel ordered the demolition of hundreds of houses and buildings in the West Bank yesterday. They gave the Palestinians twenty-four hours to remove their belongings as Israeli soldiers moved in. This is part of a planned new separation wall and large areas of Palestinian agricultural land have been confiscated and villages isolated to build it.
Israel says it is to protect a road connecting the whole of the West Bank from teenagers throwing rocks.
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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The man behind the Museum of the Bible is Steve Green, the billionaire owner of Hobby Lobby. He was bang to rights on smuggling hookey gear through US Customs on multiple occasions. Not to mention being filmed in cahoots with local scumbags in Iraqi hotel rooms.
As a fundamentalist Christian he was held to a lower standard and let off all criminal charges. |
The guy from Bargain Hunt has been finally charged, the point is that, most of the time, it's not whether the goods are real or fake (the sytsem doesn't mind), it's who profits?
In the Bargain Hunt case it is alleged that the likeable presenter became involved with Nazem Ahmad, a diamond and art dealer who was on a Treasury sanctions list, and Ahmad (currently whereabouts unknown) is charged in the US over claims that he uses his collection, which has included masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Antony Gormley and Andy Warhol, to launder money for the banned Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Guess the Odd One Out
| masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Antony Gormley and Andy Warhol |
Correct. Andy Warhol. He just messes about with old prints.
And Antony Gormley and Pablo Picasso.
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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Modern brand art, is the best fit, with big profits, its also lightweight and difficult to track. He would probably have got way away with it, if he hadnt admitted it all on electronic records, so it was a guilty plea.
"Thats got to be worth a fiver. "
"No, its only worth three"
"OK lets see what the probation report says"
Maybe the judge with take pity, but I doubt it, the guy is an expert.......
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