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@doctor_rahmeh Perhaps Islam and Judaism could do a trade. Islam gets to keep the Al Aqsa Mosque it built deliberately on top of the Jewish Temple, Judaism's holiest site, and Judaism gets to build a Synagogue on top of the Ka'aba in Mecca. Worth a try? No?

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@TomLondon6 @BarakSeener @LBC No, they haven't. I suspect they have committed some war crimes but not genocide. What they have done is prosecuted a war against an enemy who attacked them first, in a brutal urban environment in which Hamas breached almost every aspect of the LOAC causing the deaths of too many

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@TomLondon6 @Keir_Starmer @michaelgove @CamillaTominey I fear it is your anti-semitism that is more obvious and more odious. There is no genocide in Gaza. If there were there would not still be over 2 million Palestinians living there. What there is, is a ghastly urban war in which Hamas has grieviously breached the LOAC.

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@schrodin @3rnesto_ac @JoeyMannarino Setting aside the fact that your choice of words identifies you as a clear racist, ethnic minority people make up about 27% of the prison population despite the fact that they make up about 16% of the general UK population. So what you say is absolutely false.

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@AllMeArse @GoodwinMJ @owenjonesjourno I think that the obvious tweak to the EHCR which should keep everyone happy is a clarification of rule 7 that subject to law, punishment may legitimately curtail the rights set out in rules 5,8,10 and 11.

Hey presto!

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@normanbluecoll1 Because entrepreneuers often pay themselves hardly anything in the early life of a company because they want to make a success of the company. Their reward comes later when they have grown the company creating 100s if not 1000s of jobs.

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@mikethemofo @JoeyMannarino No mate. I have intervened in a street fight and forced an end to it, on my own, but I limited the force I used to the minimum necessary to achieve that end. The training I received during my 34 year military career not to mention my service in Iraq and Afghanistan did help.

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@bphillipsonMP @TheNewsAgents I had to stand in front of a school full of parents and under-11 children to tell them that their school and community was closing because the VAT and ENI double whammy finished off what TPS contributions had started. You haven't done that. And it shows.

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@3rnesto_ac @JoeyMannarino No, abandonar el Estado de derecho supondría la ruina de Europa en todos los sentidos.

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@TomLondon6 @DaleVince @CamillaTominey You are completely wrong. If there were a genocide in Gaza it would be over by now there would not be a single Palestinian left alive. Reported Palestinian casualty rates are consistent with high intensity urban warfare as experienced by, say, the German civil population in 1945.

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@ZackPolanski UK emissions per capita are below the global average, below the European average, a third of US and Australian emissions and half of China's. While I agree that there is more to be done - not at the expense of maintaining some form of growth in the UK economy.

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Bill Clinton: “Me maté intentando darles un Estado a los palestinos. Tenía un acuerdo que rechazaron que les habría dado toda Gaza y el 97% de Cisjordania. Lo que sea. Lo rechazaron todo. Sólo querían matar judíos.”

Los palestinos nunca quisieron la paz.

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@normanbluecoll1 As with many on the left, you regard normal human behaviour as being terribly inconvenient. This means either that you suppress it brutally (egs Stalin, Mao, Kims, Pol Pot), suppress it less brutally (egs Castro, Tito), or try to control it (Attlee, Wilson et al). Always fails.

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@ZackPolanski Which - as after the 1965 act - will reduce supply of private rented accommodation forcing an immediate demand for council housing. If there was any delay in building this, homelessness would increase. A better strategy, perhaps, would be to build more council houses first.

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@MichaelRosenYes The LOAC is pretty clear: targetting hospitals etc is prohibited, unless they have been turned into a legitimate military target by the defender; under such circumstances responsibility lies with the defender not the attacker. Proportionality also applies mind.

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@ZackPolanski A useful exercise is to apply the definition of what is genocide used in this report to allied operations against Germany from 1943 to 1945.

The term genocide is being expanded in order to reduce the significance of the Holocaust.

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@normanbluecoll1 Punishing the wealthy does not improve the lot of the poor; rather, it panders to the chronic sense of inadequacy that infects the petty bourgeois.

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@bphillipsonMP You interfere to destroy families you don't like.

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@ZackPolanski The current refugee tax - because there is one - is paid by working people in Britain.