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Irrespective of all the emotions involved, BN declared that Israel would destroy Hamas. I suspect his generals weren’t particularly happy with that. it seems clear that Israel believe the area below Al shifa to be very important. Whether they’re right or not we dont know. There was some talk that sinwar is in this area below ground. That would explain why this particular tunnel structure seems so important to the IDF. but netenyahu backed himself into a political corner - I wonder if he would try and spin the death or capture of sinwar and the release of all the hostages still alive as meeting his declared aims (if remaining. Hamas fighters also appear to leave Gaza). But then why would Hamas agree to that unless iran and Qatar tell them they have to in order to save thousands more Palestinian lives. Reality and apparent reality aren’t so different when it comes to politics.

Careful - you’ll get a job at the bbc ! the Israeli military want the hospital empty of the civilians sheltering there and only with injured and staff so they can try and deal with Hamas either in the surrounding buildings or below ground there, they may decide that they can enter with crack squads and try to find the access to tunnels that they think exist if the civilians are evacuated and the injured moved to upper floors I read that Israel will facilitate the movement of babies from the paediatric dept at Al shifa to other safer hospitals tomorrow (not sure how that will work unless there is a safe route to the east of the hospital without Hamas snipers able to target them ). Sadly this is not going to end soon.

Aha not well put is it I was trying to say all our internationals who were fit were available to play

In other news, water wet and ice is cold ……

Wasn’t so much about the march being a hate march imo - she (and others) implied that the march might be used by some as cover to cause issues around the cenotaph. Which was very unlikely to happen. Tommy Robinson and his mates have no time for Israel and Jews - an actual full on ‘hate march’ against these two entities is more likely to be joined by them!

I predict he won’t change the system

He’s leaving in January no point in him becoming important to us the assumption being that we don’t need him to win ……..

Millwall were away in Sheffield

And lost 25-29 with all our fit players available simply not good enough

Plan A is supposed to work

At least we have a couple weeks now to reset We need a rocket up our arses

Vards was cack last week nacho is cack this week cannon only has 30 mins in him

It is but we didn’t rotate enough imo when it was two games a week and we’ve now begun to look leggy

For a few weeks now

Maybe enzo didn’t sound definitive about it

I wonder if kel has a jan move lined up ??

Losing at HT to quins H kelly making a poor handling error just before the break Imo, Kelly and potter aren’t good enough

I’m not watching and I know that makes sense

Who has ‘obliterated’ a functioning hospital ? Who ‘blew up’ the Al shifa ?

He’s way less effective playing higher up imo much prefer him running onto passes or receiving deeper on the half turn where he has a lot of the game in front of him

Where is he playing ?

Are there actually any real journalists on bbc live webpage? this is from their live feed this afternoon. Someone must be responsible for proof reading what is posted. I'm outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, just a few hundred metres away from Israeli tanks approaching from the north and south. The vicinity is every now and then subjected to Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling and gunshots. I can hear the sounds of explosions and shelling, and have seen bodies being brought here in vehicles and carts drawn by horses and donkeys. Inside this hospital there are tens of thousands of injured people, many of whom are still in a critical condition due to the serious injuries they have sustained. They cannot leave the hospital because of their wounds. (A couple of days ago Al Jazeera reported that there could be 5000 injured patients in the hospital (which has a capacity of 800)).

Yep on point one there were efforts under Clinton and bush which may have worked given implementation negotiations https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-agreed-to-give-up-sovereignty-in-part-of-jerusalem-old-city-in-2000-document/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-never-said-no-to-2008-peace-deal-says-former-pm-olmert/ on point 2, it’s simply not feasible to give 15 million Palestinians the right to live in Israel. There are currently 2 million Arabs/Palestinians living in Israel (25% of the population) . I couldnt see any sovereign state allowing that ratio to increase. Imo, Israel really has no desire to make Gaza part of the wider country - Gaza was originally part of Egypt before the 67 war. Unlike parts of the West Bank it has no strong biblical connections so the religious groups are not drawn to it for the reasons that it wasn’t part of biblical Israel until the reign of king David. it’s important to realise that after the next GE, the very right wing parties (together with their unpleasant opinions) that currently prop up BN will no longer be part of the conversation. (And none of these politicians are part of the war cabinet)

if by small you mean zero then i agree with you i have mused about the thought that swapping gaza for an equal sized piece of land north of the west bank up towards galilee would make a two state solution more practical. but that's a long way off (and v unlikely anyway). for now, as confirmed yesterday by the most right wing PM israel has ever had, there is no desire or intention to re occupy gaza beyond non permanent security personnel.

He met them on the evening that Israel went into Gaza on the ground it was covered extensively on the news that night he isn’t popular in Israel - even less so than when all this began his attendance at any funerals would not be clever but the country is at war and in those circumstances will rally around the leadership - until it’s over when he will be political toast regarding the hostages - there was a story a few weeks back on a Friday where Hamas declared that they wanted to release two old women on humanitarian grounds but Israel had refused to accept them. the two women were released on the Monday. I can say for certain that if hostages were offered for release without any preconditions that it was felt would heavily compromise the war aims then it would be done. israel has a history of exchanging vast numbers of Palestinian prisoners for very few hostages. Infact some of those considered responsible for planning oct 7 were among 1200 exchanged for just one soldier a decade ago. The idea that Israel has ‘written off’ the hostages is fanciful. Hostages go deep into the Israeli psyche. we should take any stories about hostage releases with a large dose of salt. there is much going on in the background that we won’t know about in detail. Hamas simply won’t release all the hostages because then they are exposed completely below ground (yeah - sounds odd ). I would expect that at some point quite soon we will see the dozens on non Israeli hostages released. The additional complication is that Hamas is not holding all of them.