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Mark Steel at it again http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/how-silly-of-me-to-assume-it-was-israeli-bombs-causing-all-the-damage-in-gaza-9640905.html

Me too. Too early to chuck in Aarons in a game like that though. I suspect Pardew will move Sissoko to the wing and start Colback for added defensive cover.

Got them off here https://vine.co/u/1107627716829704192

He's no Shola but hardly skinny on evidence of that photo.

Its going to be another mediocre season. 10th-12th. We wont get relegated and the best we can hope for is a decent result or two against the big boys. Thats NUFC now and will be till the fat man's here. No use getting excited or overly gloomy about anything which is why I've had a meh attitude towards the transfer window.

Cant imagine why they'd want him though considering what they've already got in midfield.

What a classy person you are.

I just watched the BBC/CNN today for the heck of it and you can almost understand why some people take this view. We can laugh at the likes of North Korea for mind controlling their people but the rest arent too far off. Fact Israeli tank fire took out about 40 Palestinians might have something to do with it too. Or was this another ceasefire after that? Was out and havent checked the news recently. It was a shambles of a ceasefire anyway. Apparently Israel was allowed 'defensive' measures but not 'offensive'. How the hell does anyone define those terms though? Especially considering whats been happening recently. There have been many many statements that have been very disturbing. An elected MP who said all Palestinians mothers shot be shot dead, Sharon's son who said they need to level the whole place like Hiroshima/Nagasaki, a religious minister who said something similar etc etc. I'd still like to think most Israeli's are rational and objective about what their army is doing, but it doesnt seem to be the case. Its scary. If statements like these had come out of any other place the world would be in an uproar.

No mention of a fee on the sites I've read the news on so far.

Spurs set to sign Dier. Wonder how true the rumours of us being interested were, and if they were accurate how short we fell of the valuation.

Shocking but it explains a lot. People basically just waiting for their turn to die at the moment.

Seems like ages

Almost forgotten what its like to have a proper gentleman in charge.

The new Andrew smiley

How convenient. Steal from and terrorise a nation for 60 years, then just forget about and move forward. Great for Israel, not so much for the Palestinians. What sort of precedent does that set? History is never irrelevant. The kind of Palestinian 'state' Israel is said to have agreed to would have little or no sovereignty. You could blame Hamas for not agreeing to that but if I was them I'd tell them to shove off too. After 60 years of torture you offer them breadcrumbs and expect them to be grateful? They effectively dont have a choice. Israel knows that. The only way of ever achieving peace is provision of justice. We're freaking miles off that in Gaza. Fine, lets forget history. How about back off some of the land you've stolen as a good will gesture and then offer talks? But no, lets bomb their schools, hospitals and homes in about the few hundred kilometres of land they've got left and then blame them for being pissed? They're the ones sabotaging the peace process? FFS. Fact is, Israel will not stop until all Palestinians have somehow left or are dead. And all of us will be responsible for it. This is a conflict unlike any other in the world. The world superpowers have funded and backed the systematic eradication of a nation and the rest of us have watched silently. Its fucking shameful and it does my head in.

Im pretty sure Israel wants to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the map too. Their elected representatives have just about said as much many times over the years. In their case, the problem is that thanks to the US and its allies they've been given the capability to do it too, and they're doing it. The map of Palestinian territory disappearing over the years has been posted already. Its shocking. Hamas WANTS to wipe Israel out, we all know that it cannot until it gets the kind of backer that its opponent does. Israel HAS wiped most of Palestinian out and now its people too. There's no question of may or wants to here. They're doing it, and the whole world is watching, even if the superpowers are keeping quite. Its absolutely criminal.

It really baffles me as to how anyone who knows everything thats been happening since 1948 can still find a 'balanced view' here. I've learnt though that these people usually ignore that history and insist on pretending that Israeli aggression began when Hamas suddenly developed an inexplicable liking for rocket launching.

Im not going to look for a 'balanced view' just for the heck of it and when there really isnt one. Its genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Call it what you will.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/collective-punishment-gaza

Yeah, THATS whats annoying about this whole episode