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Because Israel are not targeting "next to civilian buildings", they are targeting the civilian buildings themselves, and they are not looking to destroy the missiles (did you see that thing? You can take it out with a rock) because they are using bombs exceeding 1 and 2 tons each, even though they have the ability to do surgical strikes to take out just the launching pad. The Israeli airstrikes are not targeted at destroying the rocket launchers or the Hamas militants. They are targeted to collectively punish the Palestinian people for resisting the attempts to wipe them off of earth. For the millionth time: Hamas are bad. They care very little about their people. So, yes, I wouldn't put it past them to use civilian houses as cover while they launch rockets, but Gaza is 350Km with 1.8 million people living in it. How much empty uninhabited land do you think there is to fire rockets from? Btw, the Lebanese army has just fought with an ISIS related group in a Lebanese town called Arsal. The town has thousands of civilians in it and the militants set up their Hawns between houses and took civilian houses as shelters. The Lebanese army, using WW2 weapons killed about 200 fighter without killing a single civilian. So, no, the army actually throwing the tons and tons of explosives are responsible for the deaths of the civilians, as shocking as that may sound.. This is so bullshit! Do you think that every time Hamas wants to fire a rocket, they put up a tenet?! There are hundreds of drones in the Gaza sky, don't you think that a bright blue tent would kinda make them stick out? Hamas has fired thousands of rockets, if that is how they set up rockets launchers, then you'd find a blue tenet every hundred meter. And I love how it went from "this is a very peculiar and rare sight" to "this is how Hamas usually set up their rockets". But let us assume that that really is how Hamas sets up their rocket launchers. That would mean two things: The first is that it is a complete lie that Hamas fires from between houses because if they've set up over 3000 blue tents and only one was caught on camera then this was a one-off and the rest are obviously very far from civilian houses. And secondly, this just proves the point I was making above: this was "near a civilian building" and Israel has the weapons to take out the launch pads, so the destruction of whole houses is not by mistake.

City for me are still favorites and have the best squad in the league even though we've bridged some of the gap with our signings. If we do win the league, it'll probably be because of Jose completely out-witting Pelligrini, which I totally fancy our chances of.

A friend of mine joked the other night when there were clashes between the two that if an ISIS member killed a Jabhat Al Nosra member, who gets the virgins?!

Wiki leaks show that the US tried to undermine a UN report condemning an Israeli attack on a UN school in Gaza in 2008 and Ban Ki Moon actually complied with Rice's request! "Ambassador Rice spoke with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon three times on May 4 to discuss concerns over the Board of Inquiry's report on incidents at UN sites in December 2008 and January 2009. Rice called the Secretary-General to register concern about the scope of the report. She cited in particular recommendations 10 and 11, saying it set a bad precedent if the report of a Board of Inquiry expands beyond its terms of reference. Given that those recommendations were outside the scope of the Board's terms of reference, she asked that those two recommendations not be included in the summary of the report that would be transmitted to the membership. The Secretary-General said he was constrained in what he could do since the Board of Inquiry is independent; it was their report and recommendations and he could not alter them, he said. Ambassador Rice urged the Secretary-General to make clear in his cover letter when he transmits the summary to the Security Council that those recommendations exceeded the scope of the terms of reference and no further action is needed. The Secretary-General said his staff was working with an Israeli delegation on the text of the cover letter. Ambassador Rice asked the Secretary-General to be back in touch with her before the letter and summary are released to the Council. Ambassador Rice spoke with the Secretary-General two additional times. In the second conversation, she underscored the importance of having a strong cover letter that made clear that no further action was needed and would close out this issue. Secretary-General Ban called her after the letter had been finalized to report that he believed they had arrived at a satisfactory cover letter. Rice thanked the Secretary-General for his exceptional efforts on such a sensitive issue. Rice "https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09USUNNEWYORK460_a.html#efmAXKA0M

I said this to Fernando: The situation with the Christians in Iraq is very suspicious to say the least. Not even the Vatican has said anything. Why this Western silence and lack of action? Even now the spotlight has been put on the country because of the Yazidis and the west wants to look like the rich powerful man who saved an animal of an endangered species on TV! (Sorry, I'm in a cynical mood) Why is the issue being marginalized? Why was so little made of Ma'loola and other cities of Christian majority in Syria? Do they want a Christian-free middle east? Does the cultural diversity in the region annoy them? Are they trying to erase our culturally rich history because a middle east with a single right-wing Muslim demographic is easier to vilify and justify attacking? Do they want to "abbreviate" the middle east with the likes of ISIS for the same reason Israel calls all the Palestinians "Hamas"? I realize how much of a conspiracy theory that sounds like, but I feel those are all valid questions.

So the mad scientists is coming back to face the monster it created? The strikes are just publicity stunts for the Americans because they can't face their public about this any longer. If they want to really get rid of ISIS, how about they arm the Iraqi army of their "ally" Al Maliki or the Lebanese army that they keep saying over and over again that they back yet they wouldn't allow to have a single attack helicopter. Our soldiers had to literally thrown out bombs with their hands out of a helicopter when we were the first to try to combat these Islamic extremists back in 2007.

No, actually what you call "خطوة" we call "دعسة" in Lebanese. So "دعسة ناقصة" is Lebanese for "faux pas". So I meant it as a joke to say "دعشة ناقصة" instead of "دعسة ناقصة" because داعش are involved. Wow, that is A LOT less funny after I explained it!

This is one of the very few times he'll get to "get one over on" Chelsea. Let him have it..

@Mohammed Seif, I just realized that you might not have the saying in Egypt so if this made very little sense to you just ignore it

He's getting back to Jose for what he says about Arsenal. And you have to admit, there is some truth to what he's saying.

I'll do a few midweek matches as well. Hey, we let @Jason write, you can't possibly be any worse!

As far as I know, they had a period of peace under Saddam which would make sense because he only cared about power and politics and they never really cared much about either. The difference between the others and the Yazidis is that the Christians were allowed to flee and they and all the others have also fled to other cities while the Yazidis were attack without warning and are now stuck in the mountain desert and dying of thirst and hunger. Their humanitarian situation are very bad. In Lebanon, there are more foreigners than there are Lebanese people in the country! And more than half of them are Syrians. Some parties have been covering for various ant-Assad militias and using Lebanon to provide them with funds and weapons from the start, so, Yes, there is definitely some groups loyal to ISIS and Jabhat Al Nosra, but those are small groups mainly in Tripoli and some Palestinian refugee camps and till last in Arsal. Those groups are for logistics mainly and to perform certain operations. There is no army. If there are fighters, they're in the tens or hundreds, not in the thousands. However there are a few thousand fighters in Kalamoon after the Koseir and Yabrood battles who are trapped between the Syrian army and Hezboullah. They obviously have plans to create a "province" for themselves in the east of the country, but the battle is unwinnable. Hezboullah are just too strong and well equipped for them and they just took a serious hit in Arsal and lost at least a couple of hundred fighters. They made a big mistake in Arsal and it took some internal parties to save their asses. It was a "دعشة ناقصة"

The situation in Iraq is so bad, I can't even begin to describe it. It's like something from medieval times. The oppression of the Christians and forcing them out of their cities, war with the Kurds, but probably the worst thing that ISIS is doing is to the Yazidis. You probably haven't heard of it before, but Yazidi is one of the oldest surviving religions in the world dating back to over 5000 years ago. The vast majority of the Yazidis live in Mount Sinjar in Iraq. And for the past couple of weeks they have been under attack by ISIS. Hundreds have been and a lot of the more than half a million Yazidis in Iraq have been forced out of their cities into the mountain deserts in the region. They are dying of thirst and hunger. Tens of thousands of people will die if no action is taken. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100282674/death-of-a-religion-isis-and-the-yezidi/ Yet, not a single penny has been given to the Iraqi army or the Kurdish troops fighting ISIS in Iraq.

I did not. I suggest you solve this via PMs. Alright, let's get back on topic.

If everyone in this thread doesn't grow up, I'm locking it.

Of course he has the right to be upset, just like Jose was against Pellets, but not shaking the managers hand was the absolute cunt move.

Best of luck to him wherever he goes. Moved to ex-blues.

There are very few bigger cunts in football than Pep Guardiola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9kyTwbOx9I

Yes, look at how 360 degrees panorama of Khaza'a shows how the IOF was only targeting Hamas: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/gaza/11012640/Gaza-conflict-360-degree-panorama-of-flattened-town-of-Khuzaa-Gaza.html

Petr is too hot for his wife!

Honestly never understood the hype. I had never seen such an average girl receive so much praise before. Hey! If my wife says Kate Upton is hot, then Kate Upton is fucking hot! Got it?

Yeah, the hospitality of people, especially in the country side even keeps surprising me. But I do feel that in some areas the people have taken it a bit too far. In the Beka' region, you deeply offend someone, even if a total stranger, if you turn down his/her lunch or dinner invitations even if you have somewhere else to be!

Buzz kill! This was the best page I've read all week No, seriously, I'm moving this whole thing to the pub so we don't scare any newcomers. PS: Congrats @Muzchap!

Jason told me?