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I'm on medical grade baby. You haven't had a conversation with a doctor until you've heard them say the words "green kush" with a straight face.

it’s a good question. Could a single state Israel have existed in peace without the displacement of so many Palestinian Arabs? Fuck knows. FWIW, I think Palestinian Israelis (a sizeable chunk of israel’s population) enjoy a much better life than those poor sods in Gaza.

Meslier leaving Leeds. They'll be in for Pope I should think

The real issue I have isn't with which state belongs where, it's that many hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly kicked out of their actual homes. Their whole lives were stolen. Surely there was a better way. Surely integration was that way.

It’s the land Jews were forced to flee from by the Romans. There has always been a cultural and religious connection. Jewish people have always lived there (in numbers massively diminished, of course) and Jews were “returning” there long before 1948. But it’s a classic example of how territory is carved up post-war. Decisions are taken to over how to deal with the spoils of war; new borders are established with little thought given to long term implications. See Kashmir etc etc

Is that the posh word for fists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_Jewish_state Bloody hell- not many places proposed where you’d actually want to live.

Admittedly, my knowledge of how they came to choose Israel as the place is lacking, but surely just after the war, when Europe was being redrawn, they could’ve made somewhere in Europe as the Jewish homeland that wasn’t surrounded by Arabs? I don’t know- southern Italy, Gibraltar, anywhere other than slap-bang in the middle of the Arab world?

I guess style isn’t for everyone.

It’s like i said - all the biggest cunts in the region wanted/needed the conflict to escalate to further their own ambitions.

Am not generally believing of conspiracy theories but reckon this one probably holds. I mean howay, Mossad manged to infiltrate hezbollah with hundreds of pager bombs but didn't spot this coming?

To clarify, it's an opinion I held before Syed. It also concerns me there will be high ranking people in the US who believe in the rapture who would like to make armageddon a self fulfilling prophecy. They really believe this shit.

You simply cannot take anyone serious who brings a lotto shirt to a gun fight tbh

i like it. Would have been better with the round orange 1980s nufc crest that we had on last season’s white and green kit

yeah. I think you’re right, and it makes footballing if not financial sense. Agree with those who question whether Elanga is worth £60m mind. And it’ll be interesting to see if the PL-ready signings still have to wait on the sidelines until they’re “Eddie ready” too. Or if these rumours are a load of shit and we eventually reveal a load of signings from abroad that no one saw coming as we did when Amanda was running tings

I’m the ice man

and some high grade bong for Gemmill

I’ll bring a packet of attitude adjusters 👌

I don’t rate Elanga to be honest. He’ll be okay but I think he need more technical players if we are to go up a notch. Trafford has the potential and Joao Pedro is already good to go.

mate, I’m convinced it delighted Netanyahu. That’s how much of a cunt the man is. He cares only about power, not the Israeli people. And certainly not the Palestinian people

Bit much to class Tripps as an overseas player mind.

Hamas who were funded/propped up, initially to oppose the PLO, for years by Israel/Netanyahu. As for Oct 7th, I agree with your comments but there is nothing that can convince me that Netanyahu and the so called "best intelligence service in the world" didn't know it was coming and that they let it happen to create that political capital. It's lost in the noise now, but Egypt warned Israel days before it happened but I am convinced Israel knew anyway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67082047

palestine was never an independent country. this sometimes gets lost in these discussions. it was part of the ottoman empire, later carved up as british mandate post WWI then as the state of israel by the UN after the brits ended the mandate. i'm not defending the displacement and murder of palestinian people from a region they called home. of course i understand the hatred but israelis are also a product of their situation. the creation of the state of israel was a response to the holocaust, backed by the british and supported by the international community (beyond the arab world). the international consensus was that jews needed a home, a place they could be safe after centuries fleeing persecution, most recently across europe during the pogroms and later the holocaust. that goes some way to explain what israel means to a lot of jewish people. those who live there today do so in fear and paranoia. they know they are surrounded by neighbours who hate them and who hate western style liberal democracy. unfortunately that paranoia has developed into the sort of rabid nationalism we see today in netanyahu's cabinet.

I think the players targeted are open to signing. All the young cheap foreign talent we've targeted in the last couple of years have turned us down eg Etikike and Kushanov. Include Tosin in that although that is slightly different for a couple of reasons. I think he's going for the players he thinks he can get ..