Posts by stephen walker
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mother = nurture, protect, dicipline, praise, console, encourage, advise...
wife = emotional partner? companion? counsel? muse? receiver of unexpected gifts? firm but fair? (no, wait, that's 4th form dean)
(no word from the ladies yet? i hope they are not all busy baking scones)
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Ah, the job of a wife is to tell her husband to stop being so irresponsible with his time and money...
...just joking.
wifing and mothering aren't jobs.
how do i know? because i can't find any ads in the paper for either. and how much do these jobs pay? -
Kyle,
ok. sorry. no more swearing.
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a very two-sided history
a two-side history where one side, supported by the most powerful superpower in the world, steals the other side's land and houses and villages and farms and herds them into refugee camps for 60 years?
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Civilians seek food, fuel and sanctuary
By Andrew England in JerusalemPublished: January 14 2009 18:52 | Last updated: January 15 2009 09:54
The death toll in Gaza climbed above 1,000 on Wednesday as Israel’s massive military offensive in the strip continued into its 19th day.
Many of those killed have been civilians, including more than 300 children. The bombardment has also forced more than 40,000 people to flee to UN shelters – an increase of about 25,000 in the past week alone as Israel has escalated its ground offensive, with troops advancing on Gaza’s densely populated urban centres.
Palestinians say many people move from one house to another, hoping to find a haven for the night. But with attacks from air, land and sea there are is no sanctuary, they say, only misery.
The plight of Gaza’s 1.5m people – more than half of them children – is exacerbated by the strip’s border points being closed so there is no escape route. And with Israeli forces heading deeper into the area, growing pockets of the population have been trapped in their homes, the United Nations says.
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so...Israel has to kill 1,000 people in Gaza and injure thousands more and detroy thousands of buildings and billions of dollars of infrastructure because...
Hamas wants to do the same to Israel but hasn't and can't. apparently.
aren't we glad Israel is held to higher standards than everyone else!
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how do you define Hamas?
a convenient excuse used by Israel to bomb the hell out of Gaza.
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Sacha,
there has been a lot of harsh criticism of Israel around the world, but mainly by non-government sources and non-mainstram media.
major governments and international bodies have been very restrained in their criticism of Israel's ongoing war crimes, imo.
and the immune thing, imo, refers to the fact that Israel has carried on killing, starving and depriving a population of 1.5 million people, trapped in a tiny open prison (ghetto), depite the criticisms it has received.
so, "immune from criticism" doesn't mean no one is criticising, just that the criticism has had no discernable effect.
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last count 700 dead?
you obviously have been avoiding the papers in the last few days, eh?
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How shall you refer to Hamas?
however you feel like.