[davidjay]

I'm still trying to understand how you have to 'workshop' (by which I suppose he means sit down and think up the words, then practice them) two lines.

[Tubby Isaacs]

"Gaza's Gazan, Gaza Gaza
Not Israeli like Ofra Haza..."*

*Israeli singer, was with the Sisters of Mercy for a bit. Died quite young, very sad.

Very sad. Good record, mind.

[Boiler]

Well, that lasted a long time...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 025-10-19/

[davidjay]

Well, that lasted a long time...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 025-10-19/

"Okay, we've finished killing. Ceasefire's back on now."

[mattomac]

Well he has done the press conference now.

[Boiler]

Fuck off Bibi, you utter CUNT.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gv76r5qpvo

Netanyahu has been standing trial for the past five years on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases. He denies any wrongdoing.

He said in a video message that he would have preferred to see the process to the end, but national interest "demanded otherwise".

Early this month, US President Donald Trump urged Herzog to "fully pardon" the prime minister.

At the time, Herzog made it clear that anyone seeking a pardon had to submit a formal request.

On Sunday, the president's office released the request and a letter by the prime minister himself, in light of "the importance of this extraordinary request and its implications".

[Samanfur]

And take Herzog with you.

I still remember very clearly watching Herzog in the early '90s, as a middle-ranking minister. His interview with Channel Four News was my first introduction to the Israeli government's I-reject-your-reality-and-substitute-my-own method of foreign policy, and so patronising and at odds with the evidence that I made a mental note to keep an eye out for this bloke in future.

That he slithered his way to the top doesn't surprise me at all.

[The Weeping Angel]

Exactly how harassing Helen Mirren is going to help the Palestinians isn't clear. But take that, Netanyahu.

[Boiler]

An article by Jeremy Bowen, one of the few BBC journos I still have time for.

Bowen: Trump and Netanyahu wanted to reshape the Middle East - now they risk a permacrisis

Both men must be wondering what went wrong. The United States has the world's most powerful military. Israel is the superpower of the Middle East.

Trump and Netanyahu saw a regime in Tehran reeling from economic crisis caused by sanctions, mismanagement and corruption. Israel had delivered hammer blows to its allies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Its other key ally, Bashar al Assad had been deposed as president of Syria and fled to Moscow. In January the regime crushed huge demonstrations against it by killing thousands of Iranian citizens.

They underestimated the resilience, ruthlessness and guile of the Islamic regime. They believed that killing its supreme leader and his closest lieutenants would cause the regime to collapse from within.

[Boiler]

The expression "go fuck yourself, you murderous cunt" comes to mind here. Another individual whose death I will celebrate.

Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK “the Islamic republic of Britain” in a podcast interview, where he also described the country as the “first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon”.

His comments, made during an interview for Israel’s army radio, played into a common far-right Islamophobic trope about Britain’s small Muslim population.

Errrrm.... Pakistan, you prick?