23 Aug 2016 08:40:20 Thank you KP, of course I was being facetious, just like I was with the Steve Hughes comment which clearly flew over someone's head. Thankfully a couple of others who actually bothered to watch the video got the humour.
22 Aug 2016 21:02:59 Muscat if you can't appreciate the difference between healthy sarcasm and aggression I can't help you. You didn't start this thread, and the content people add is at their discretion, subject to editorial approval. I'm sorry to have to tell you but you don't get to control the post.
You quickly slipped into condescension as you took very personally a post that was using humour to highlight a deep distrust of the IDF and wasn't aimed at you. So I think you need to not be so quick to think someone is tearing into you when they're just giving their opinion on a subject that you don't have ownership of, and quite frankly don't seem to know much about. The wider context of what this means seems beyond you, and the moment you said 'mate I'm ex-forces' I knew it would be pointless trying to explain anything to you. Your last post just confirmed that.
22 Aug 2016 14:28:33 I'm fully au fait with rules of engagement, no need to explain how it works, and no need to explain 'individual errors' when it doesn't. In the case of something like Hebron it can be viewed as the action of one individual. In the case of Bloody Sunday however rules of engagement were deliberately ignored, and 14 innocent people were shot dead by the British Army. Not an error. I can go into as much detail as you care.
Rather than investigate even some of the countless illegal departures from rules of engagement by the the IDF over years you choose to simply demonstrate your excellent conditioning by referring to anything that doesn't compute as fantasy.
The fact that you were in the 'forces' has you thinking you are an expert on 'rules of engagement'. The conditioning worked fantastically well on you, you're no longer in the forces but you have managed to stroll back into civilian life with your conceited squaddie arrogance intact. Little do you know how little you know.
21 Aug 2016 22:12:51 Yes I read that Israeli soldiers will run out and give a map, a food hamper and a cuddle to any Palestinians who may have got lost here. No chance any Israeli soldiers will harm any Palestinians here. None. This is actually a humanitarian act by the Israeli military to show Palestinians what lovely caring people they are.
11 Aug 2016 01:33:00 Total narcissist Geldof, I don't like him, I've yet to meet someone in Dublin who does, but I'm curious to know how how he has been well rewarded for his work? I've nothing against Bono, he's a decent guy, as for McCartney I don't know him, but I think he's a great musician, what is he supposed to have done?
09 Aug 2016 17:54:12 She comes across as someone who is desperately trying to learn how to appear empathic, when in reality she is incapable of it. A dangerous individual, and without doubt sociopathic as KP said. Trump is a harmless pussycat next to her.
03 Aug 2016 22:39:26 I haven't watched this one yet but I've seen several other videos that clearly show insects buzzing about, so if that's really Mars why aren't they telling us they've found life there. Because it isn't and they haven't.
31 Jul 2016 11:59:00 It's funny how so many people see Trump and not Clinton as the crazy dangerous candidate. If HC wins and I'm afraid she will, you can expect a major conflict between Israel and Iran during her term. Her views on this are well documented for anyone who cares to look. At least if Trump were to win, the unwarranted build up of US led NATO troops in the Baltic states would recede as would the support for an Israeli attack on Iran. Pray to whatever God you believe in that Hillary doesn't become president. Dark days for all of us if she does.
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