GuruMick comments

I disconnected before the creation of the internet.

Phone off hook....I'm going surfing.

Unless you're a trauma surgeon or such like, there's no problem that cant wait until tomorrow.

Actually , Arabs welcomed Jewish newcomers, even teaching them how to farm.

It was the Zionists who formed terror groups to drive Arabs out of their ancestral homeland .

Documents and mail exchanges between the Zionist terror groups exist today......historians quote them as a way of upending the narrative Jews put forward.

Google "Nakba " for a start

Actually

Mountain pear above....there are tick repellants for dogs both internal and external.

Works for my dog.

Google them

So women crossing a busy street cant look at oncoming drivers because they are male ?

Has the Taliban really thought this through ?

And the "Hamas Flag " of yesterdays discussions has a couple of variations.

The green flag has the Arabic writing "There is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his messenger "

Nothing about "death to Israel " there.

It's a flag people.

No Palestinian state, or even a semblance of justice and fair dealing...no end to the war.

I think the Lyme disease tick bite leave a circular "target " shaped bite mark.

If I get a tick I pull the sucker off,,,the head usually comes to but the poison part is in the body....that what a vet told me anyway. Then I tweezer the head part out.

Better off than in.

Other media reporting on how Israel has systematically destroyed water infrastructure in Gaza and the west bank.

Offences include the destruction of solar panel areas that used to help filter waste water, to destruction of well and pipelines to eliminate access to any natural clean water.

Many of these similar offences occuring in the West Bank where crazed settlers destroy even water tanks net to houses.

Well established is how the Occupied West Bank delineation follows lines demarcating water supplies previously available to Palestinians but now controlled by Israel.

These are war crimes.

Keep adding them up Israel....days of immunity are numbered.

Recognition of China, not Taiwan , is fairly recent phenomena.

Australia was one of the first during the Whitlam years, Nixon was around the same time.

I cant see the world reversing the position such that Taiwan is recognised as "truly China " and China not so recognised.

Real politics.

Move on people.

Hostages will be freed if Gaza gets a permanent ceasefire and full IDF withdrawal .

Even Israeli press saying Netanyahu doesnt want a ceasefire or even progress in negotiations.

Israeli negotiators saying the same.

Times of Israel is a good source for info.

A large part of Israeli society want to retake Gaza for Israel to build "settlements by the sea '

Some real estate groups have already designed land area where condos would be built.

And never forget Netanyahu's "no Palestinian State while I am PM "

How could anyone expect good faith negotiations from Israel.

Japan has ties with some countries that are demonised by the neo cons in USA.

Good...make your own connections and dont get fooled by war mongering rhetoric

US export figures to China nearly $200 billion

Exports to Taiwan around $45 billion.

US has a trade deficit with both countries.

Have to look at the comparative disadvantage/advantages of dropping one nation and embracing another.

Cant see Taiwan winning this race.

Bob...the "mass rapes " claim

Israel sought victims or witnesses to rapes

None came forward.

Israeli police then REQUIRED hospitals in Israel to provide any medical records of patients admitted for rape etc injuries.

None were forthcoming.

I thing the MASS rapes trope has died.

Now, google "rape in Israeli society "...an eye opener.

Google "rape in the IDF "..an eye opener.

Google "Rape of Palestinian prisoners in Israel "...an eye opener.

Balance Bob, balance...not "hasbara " silliness.

I dont remember that particular store but I do remember Mt. Fuji being VISIBLE everywhere in the area.

It's a bloody big mountain.

And the UK will not protest or oppose the application for arrest warrants by the ICJ , accusing Netanyahu and Defence Minister of war crimes.

Does that not give you pause in your support of Israel ?

Bob....google "Israeli hasbara lies since Oct 7 " for a detailed list of lies.

All collected, all collated , all lies.

Forensic Architecture is a site that showed the strike on a hospital was not a Hamas mis fire, but an IDF rocket attack.

TicTok videos show IDF committing crimes from the juvenile {wearing womens underwear } to the criminal {blowing up Mosques and schools }

Wake up buddy....there is a genocide going on...from civilian deaths, to "domicide "., destruction of housing , to destruction of all education places from preschool to University.

Add the total displacement of civilians, constantly being warned to move, then bombed in those area and you have a genocide.

Capuchin above...."Israel as a light among nations " stuff.

I heard an Israeli head of Government describe Israel as a "lighthouse " in a stormy ocean, to bring the "ship of various states " closer to safety.

I thought, nah, lighthouses warm ships of hidden rocks and reefs and are a signal to move away from the lighthouse.

Seems more accurate when thinking of Israel.

Times of Israel reports today that an ISRAELI negotiator says Netanyahu's insistence in maintaining the Gaza /Egypt buffer zone {Philadelphi corridor } as well as a division in the centre of Gaza {Nezzarin corridor } are designed to derail the peace talks.

USA negotiator says Netanyahu's statements on what is "non negotiable " is also disrupting negotiations.

Seems like , again , Netanyahu is the one opposing any ceasefire or peace deal.

At least Israeli media not shy on reporting the real reasons behind ceasefire talk failures.

My condo has a pool....with a glass roof sealing it .

The water is like a warm bath...horrible.

No one uses it.

There is a facility to put cold water in....do they use it ? No.

Japan stupidity from design to the use.

Idiots.

Bob...the IDF lies and lies again.

It was an IDF Colonel who said he saw "40 beheaded babies "

IDF lies about strikes on hospitals.

They blow up empty Universities and schools.

Thet blow up graveyards.

OK ?....so if the IDF says something, it is likely to be false.

Read accounts of IDF crimes in "Breaking the Silence " , a web site written by disillusioned ex IDF people

Back to the negotiations subject...

Israel wants to have a 1 kilometer buffer zone on the Egyptian border and maintain control of that border.

This may be a good military tactic for Israel BUT it is in breach of the long standing Peace Accord with Israel'

So one sticking point is with this.

Netanyahu..."preserve our security assets "...

Keep Gaza an open air prison, now with no hospitals , schools or homes, and hope the Gazans have learnt their lesson is the subtext of all Netanyahu says.

The Korea war issue is at a stalemate.

Seoul is so close to the border so as to make any war a civilian bloodbath for the South.

Some new approach is needed.

The US should stand down and allow impartial nations to begin peace talks.

Facilitating movement of civilians between the countries would be a first step.

These war games are a provacation....but that's all the US has...a war machine.

It never saw a nation it didnt want to flatten.

My observation only....one of the problems with Israel and society is the ever present narcissism and overblown sense of importance and entitlement Israeli citizens possess.

Israel is a very small country, with a small population of Jews , but looking at the hold on the western Governments and press/media, you would think we were dealing with a super state like China, India or the USA.

Australians dont walk around with a "born to rule "mentality, thinking the sun shines out of their butt.

Reading comments by readers in the Israeli press one is struck by the absence of any consideration that Palestinians are equal to Jews in value as human beings.

And obviously no acceptance of even the idea that Palestinians deserve a homeland in the same way Jews say they "deserve " Israel.

Marc...I bet she travels with a Japanese chef....and anyway the countries mentioned are very modern, lots of oil money, and fine dining opportunities.

I got an email from Nigeria seeking funds to unlock a fortune in gold, held illegally by the evil brother of the rightful Prince.

There are youtube videos of amateur PI's busting Indian call centre conmen at work.

Fraud....it's like music....a Universal Language.

Question : Does Yasukuni only commemorate those who died in WW2 ?

I think it commemorates ALL Japan's war dead.

Japan fought on the allied side in WW1 , for example.

And Pearl Harbour was not a sneak attack.

Read "At Dawn we slept " for the definitive historical account.

In news just in....it is thought the man was communicating with the "Miracle Chinese Floaty Woman " as to the best route to take , using currents, wind and seaweed types.

UK Courts hearing a matter accusing Israel of war crimes and plaintiffs/applicants seeking an end to UK selling arms to Israel.

Small steps in the right direction.

Bob..."assuming the terms are fair "

The disparity in power from one side to another makes me think of a customer trying to deal with a bank or insurance company.