Lionator

Whoever did it doesn’t change the bare facts that Hamas and the Israeli government are scum who both need eradicating from their positions of power.

Even if we only win 17 or 18 more, that's promotion more or less guaranteed when you consider the likelihood of draws, which is wild.

Because like in Turkey with the earthquake where Erdogan had given all the money earmarked for making buildings earthquake proof to his mates, Netanyahu is corrupted and has been siphoning off his defence budget to his mates.

Will be interesting to see how the Saudi club go about defending haram.

Difference in class between New Zealand and South Africa/England, is that New Zealand haven't panicked here, consolidated and pushed on after. Whereas the other two crumbled. I'll eat my words if I'm wrong but I think 250/260 should be enough to defend for them.

Poor Florencia Martinez went for 52 off of one over including 17 no balls.

Yep, the BBC tows the government line realistically when it comes to foreign policy. For example, can you imagine the outrage if the BBC 'both sided' the conflict in Ukraine? Likewise with China, despite us knowing little about internal Chinese politics, they are reported through a hostile state lens by the BBC. There is nothing wrong with that of course.

They're not. The BBC are trying to be neutral which in this context is absolutely impossible because one side will accuse you of one thing and the other will accuse you of another. You cannot be neutral, not because you have to pick a side, but because there is no middle ground in this due to the many contexts which surround it.

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OSINT in daylight indicating more and more that it was from the Hamas side. Maybe Israel is innocent after all and we are complicit in anti semitism

That insinuates that the truth existed in the first place.

How is that not a straight red let alone a second yellow?

That should probably be another penalty.

Yeah I was wrong

Anyone more knowledgable than me, but what's stopping a resolution that involves a UN peacekeeping mission?

No you heard it wrong, it's 25.

The GREATEST England player of all time!! What a player!!

Need a slow mo camera angle to see if he won the ball or not there.

Great goal that, poor tracking from Rice and Phillips.

3 fouls in 8 minutes for Phillips and a YC, joke selection.

North.

At least there was some (rather delusional) strategy to that madness. This is just outright killing for the sake of it.

South Africa are going to blow all their hard work and lose to the Netherlands, the absolute nutters.

It seems like the US is pushing Israel to postpone a ground offensive unless they can come up with a credible 'exit strategy', which seems wise to me. We saw with Iraq, Afghanistan and Russia in Ukraine that going in all guns blazing with no exit strategy leads to utter catastrophe (even worse than what has already happened).