Gaza.

[anneasquith]

i just caught a live update on sky news 24. heart breaking pictures, God help these poor people.........

[Kromovaracun]

"God help these poor people........."

These people need less God. Not more.

[ToraToraTora]

stop lobbing penny bangers over the fence and it'll stop, not difficult is it?

[Zeuhl]

Yes T3

/stop lobbing penny bangers over the fence/...

...into the territory that belongs to you but we illegally occupy

Trouble is, you drive people out of their homes and deliberately pressurise them into the biggest open air prison in the world and they are liable to get 'uppity'

I'm sure we would.

[naomi24]

Krom has it in one. No God - no problem.

[Zeuhl]

/No God - no problem./

Sadly

wouldn't people just find another angle for joining together, stealing other people's property, suppressing them or removing them.

Next thing someone will be telling us Northern Ireland was all about two different versions of Christianity

[naomi24]

Zeuhl, Northern Ireland was never solely about two versions of Christianity - but Israel is all about a land allegedly promised to a 'chosen people' by a God. There's no comparison.

[anneasquith]

again , only what I hear from the media. Israel has bombed a hospital in Gaza...............I wonder how long of a warning patients and staff were given prior to the bombing ?

[Zeuhl]

/but Israel is all about a land allegedly promised to a 'chosen people' by a God./

that's true naomi - you're right

at the very least 'god's will' makes the egocentric ambitions of a people much more potent, dangerous and ruthless.

[Hypognosis]

@TTT

trouble is, they can weld old food tins together, stuff it with fertiliser from some 'food aid' programme and fire it for next to nothing but the iron dome rocket which shoots it down costs Israel (and US donors) thousands of dollars each. So, even when not killing Israelis, they are draining their economy and handicapping the expansion of their military.

[Graham-W]

As usual I suspect it all comes down to oil. In 2000, oil was discovered off the shore of Gaza. However, Israel has blocked efforts to extract the oil, stating that the profits would only fund terrorism.
In 2013 An Israeli oil well has been reported to contain a much larger reserve than originally estimated. The oil exploration company, Givat Olam, has now increased its estimate to 3.53 billion barrels of oil and has already sold $40 million worth of oil from the site.
While Israel is now facing a bright future as an oil producer, there is one problem: Meged 5 is located on the Green Line, the official border between Israel and Palestine. Lying a few dozen meters inside Palestinian territory, according to international law and the Oslo Accords, the well should belong to Palestine.
In answer to this problem, Israel has adjusted the path of its separation barrier, bringing Meged 5 onto its side of the wall. While the well is now under de facto Israeli control although most of the reserves lie under Palestinian territory.
Most of the above is copy and paste but should Israel be allowed to move it's borders, just like that, to take advantage of what appears to be Palestinian oil.
More here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/oil-found-by-israel-should-belong-to-palestine-3-5-billion-barrels-of-oil-reserves-on-the-border-between-israel-and-palestine/5362043

[Hypognosis]

Wasn't the Iraq/Kuwait conflict triggered by allegations of "slant drilling"? No need to reshape the border fence there.

Oil wells near national borders are a recipe for trouble. (Japan/China and Australia/Indonesia etc. disputing who owns which scraps of rock in their neighbourhood and gunboats inevitably get rolled out to settle such disputes).

[DrFilth]

don't forget the gas


http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680

[Hypognosis]

Interesting find, DrFilth. Worth bumping the thread for.