It seems like the recognition of the Palestinian state actually achieves nothing. "The State of Palestine has already been recognized by 147 out of the 193 member states of the United Nations." Most likely the Arab League plan is the best alternative for a solution to the Gaza conflict as this point. What recognizing a Palestinian state actually achieves The largely symbolic move has more to do with politics than supporting Palestinians’ right to self-determination. https://www.vox.com/world-politics/458013/recognizing-palestinian-state-uk-france-australia
The funny thing, @themickey, is that he’s feeling confident telling you to behave because he thinks he bested me, with Baron’s admonition giving him the high ground. The thing is, I knew he would go squealing, he has proven he won't stand up for himself before, but I was curious to see what he would actually write in his report, and Baron is good with feedback. FYI: information from a blogging site, especially that doesn’t have comments enabled, is not “social media,” as is well established in law. I also obfuscated the formatting so no one could just Google and find his eponymous blog. That’s how I found it myself, when innocently looking up a source for what turned out to be a self-quote. Being charitable, I guess part of what he was trying was the old idea that by teaching something, you learn and remember it better yourself. It’s just… in the bigger picture, between ET and that... journalism? It’s public info. Reporting? I’m not sure. A psychiatrist might have pause. That’s why it was relevant, the sailing part obviously in the context of him trolling the Madleen sailboat protest and the upcoming larger blockade protest. As I said, the fair thing would have been to remove his posting rights to this thread, and mine as well, for being annoying about it, fingers crossed. Testing just how predictable somebody is was something I needed to do in an old job, but it's hardly a rewarding skill now.
@gwb-trading Tracking is more than just keeping your eyes on the ground, following footprints or broken foliage. A beginner will do that, head down, step by step, hoping the trail tells them everything. But an experienced wildlife ranger knows the landscape, the habits of the quarry, and the shortcuts they might take. Instead of chasing every mark in the dirt, they think ahead, anticipate where the “baddies” are going, and move to meet them. The real skill isn’t just reading signs, it’s predicting the destination. The destination in this case, was to establish the third temple on Islam's third holiest place, the Al-Asqua mosque, and ethnically cleanse Israel and in time expand Israel to its "Greater" incarnation. The "Arab League Plan" does not fit that goal. Its better to take a straight line to the destination. @themickey and I knew this, that's why you are being so annoying.
Sadly no, GWB posts sources most of the time now but for years before retiring, when he was committing spectacular time clock fraud at work, he would post what he thought was true as established fact. He has grown. Unless he is upset and he goes back to form. Query the source (everybody had to, all the time) and he would say use Google to find it, instead of being honest that it was just his own opinion. Now, with that information I found he had literally signed his name on a post, so that changes a lot. I actually think I spotted the post anyway but didn't care. Now of course there are hacked databases out there, it's a very old forum, but that that is cheating. Now, now, That's another Shakespeare mug for you.
Having a mom as a historian was really helpful in understanding historical and unfinished arcs of history. In Islamic tradition, Al-Aqsa (“The Farthest Mosque”, AKA dome of the rock to the Jews) is mentioned in Qur’an 17:1 as the destination of the Isra and Mi‘raj — the Prophet Muhammad’s miraculous night journey. According to the tradition: 1. Muhammad was transported from the Kaaba in Mecca to Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem in a single night (Isra). 2. From there, he ascended to the heavens (Mi‘raj) to speak with God and receive guidance on prayer. This makes the site directly connected to the Prophet’s own spiritual journey. Unfortunately it's also the site of the destroyed 1st & 2nd Temple and the Zionists want to rebuild that real bad and the US/Brit looney Christian Zionists want them to. Interestingly, Jesus is quite a lot more important in Islam that most know, almost no Christians do, there are conspiracy theories about Israel suppressing that info. Doubt it myself. Jerusalem in the Prophetic and Eschatological Timeline: Many Islamic traditions (especially in Hadith) tie Jerusalem to end-times events. Some Islamic narrations say that Jesus (‘Isa in Islam) will return to Earth near the end of time, defeat the Antichrist (al-Dajjal), and rule with justice... and that this will happen in the area of Jerusalem. So the super Christians and Muslims want ringside seats. The Jews have a lot of ideas about all that stuff. Honestly, most of the time it seems like some of their religous arm's understanding of God is that he does not actually exist in a practical sense. Could explain why they are so cool with athiest Jews. Pretty broad generalization, they are much madder than that really. “God is the absence of being,” I once heard, it’s probably an intersection of Maimonides’ negative theology and the Kabbalistic Ein Sof, where God’s nature is so far beyond “existence” that it can only be described in terms of negation. Kind of loops back to Samsara and that possum I guess
Sadly, the Netanyahu government is back to pushing the Trump plan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza to other countries again. There is a term for this -- it is called ethnic cleansing. Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan https://apnews.com/article/israel-p...-south-sudan-15191c194cb6f972bc627a382d830edd South Sudan ‘approves’ Israeli plan to send Gazans to country Scheme to clear Palestinians from the Strip prompts allegations of ethnic cleansing https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/13/israel-wants-to-send-gazans-to-south-sudan/
Well, gee, what a surprise. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich asserted on Thursday that the occupied West Bank is inherently part of Israel, citing a “divine promise” as the basis for his claim. In a news conference, Smotrich announced the initiation of a project aimed at connecting the Ma’ale Adumim settlement to occupied Jerusalem. He characterised the establishment of a Palestinian state as a threat to Israel; “the only Jewish state in the world.” Smotrich stated that he has the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding matters related to the West Bank. He noted, “We are confiscating thousands of dunams of land and investing billions to settle one million Jews in the West Bank.” He emphasised that time has come to apply Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and to permanently dismiss the notion of dividing Israel. “Every Israeli home built in the West Bank represents a declaration of sovereignty, and each neighbourhood strengthens our claim,” he remarked, highlighting plans to double the size of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement. In conclusion, Smotrich asserted, “Our future is not dictated by external opinions but by the actions of the Jewish people,” expressing confidence that a significant declaration regarding the imposition of sovereignty over the West Bank is imminent. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/2...est-bank-as-part-of-israel-by-divine-promise/
In the meanwhile to achieve that object, America continues to ply Israel with money and weapons at American taxpayers expense and hardly a murmur from the world about that. Basically the western world is complicit with Palestinian destruction. America calls for peace are like telling a naughty boy to behave "Here's a hundred boxes of matches boy, go outside in the sun and just do your own thing".