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I stand with Genocide Joe, Holocaust Harris, Merz, Von Der Leyen, Kallas, Netanyahu and Zelensky cos Pyootn is a bad man who invaded the Ukraine for no reason. Go USA! Slava Ukraine and Heil Hitler! (okay to say because Russia has Nazis too). Free Palestine! I am very moral.
Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.
Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.
Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.
@ciarannugent While we're aiding the genocide, I don't bemoan also aiding its military opponents.
I think we're way past neutrality or diplomacy in any case.
@ciarannugent I don't think "it's terrible" that a company might be arming Russia.
There is no international law.
There are no diplomatic avenues left.
Ireland is unfortunately not neutral.
I don't know how more simply to put it.
@ciarannugent I don't have an easy answer. The world is changing. Now is the time of monsters. It's going to get much worse before it gets better. Hopefully justice will win in the end. So I'm nonplussed about the aluminium.
@ciarannugent For both scenarios diplomacy has been completely exhausted because in both scenarios the western powers want war and genocide. Minsk 1 and 2, Istanbul... innumerable treaties and accords re Palestine. Hardly been looked at?
@ciarannugent Going back to the start. I don't think "It's terrible." that an Irish company supplied parts to Russia.
Has that not been tried for decades? At what point do you decide it's failed?
I can't fathom this analogy of the Palestinians being the Nazi aggressor here either.
@ciarannugent Even our own government won't go near this. We're all captured and need to accept the limitations of being an imperial core member. No amount of diplomacy or consciousness raising is going to be in time to save us from the upcoming strife that's needed to progress beyond this.
@ciarannugent Fair play.
I think we've exhausted all possible diplomatic avenues available to the likes of you and I. The minds of EU electorates are well and truly captured and it all needs to play out its course. I will still not stay silent, but that's not diplomacy.
@ciarannugent The Palestinians have won. Israel (and the USA and the Ukraine) has been shown up for what it is now and only the most died in the wool liberal refuses to see it.
Agreed about the diplomacy, also no issue with arming the victims of US/Israel/NATO aggression here. Both arepossible
@ciarannugent The NAFO lads want war because the ruling class wants war. I've wanted peace from 2014 and opposed all of the jingoism throughout. Nevertheless I was raised well and to always vocally support those fighting Nazis allied with the most brutal and murderous regimes in the world.
@ciarannugent The diplomatic options for the Palestinians have been clear for decades. There were none and it's shockingly ignorant to claim there ever were any.
You choose the side of the genocidal aggressor. Ireland is not neutral in the case of genocide. We are humans. Well most of us.
I have been watching the performances of Ukrainian tennis players at Roland Garros for many days now.
Not their performances in a sporting sense, but in a political one.
Every day they hold press conferences in which they insult their Russian colleagues.
Their complaints against the Russian players boil down to the fact that the Russian tennis players do not condemn Putin.
Why should Russian tennis players be required to condemn anyone at all?
Why should they put their families at risk by making such statements?
Why should they destroy their chances of ever returning to their homeland by making such statements?
So that the Ukrainian tennis players will like it?
So that someone can get another opportunity for publicity?
Tennis players should play tennis.
Tennis is a sport.
If you are unhappy with your opponents, you can simply choose not to go out and play tennis.
But the daily whining at press conferences about the “bad Russian tennis players” has already become unbearable.
Ukrainian players, go and play tennis.
And if you cannot play tennis, like that “Olympian” Heraskevych with his ridiculous helmet cannot achieve any sporting results, then go into PR instead.
But it looks extremely pathetic.
Holding press conferences every day, throwing mud at your Russian colleagues, and then still losing to them. Bravo.
Any self-described "communist" who still believes the Democrats are somehow a lesser evil than the Republicans or that Trump is especially evil compared to other US presidents is a complete and utter idiot.