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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #325 on: December 06, 2023, 08:13:00 AM »
That doesn't seem to be the way terrorists think. No-one did anything like that for 9/11; at any rate I've never heard it suggested. Islamic terrorists, I think, tend to be quite puritanical, and would probably have nothing to do with Western money-markets. After all, Islam forbids usury, which is foundational to the system.

That would be why Islamuc countries make no use of 'Western' money markets... oh wait...
Terrorists have elastic morals.

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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #326 on: December 06, 2023, 08:54:09 AM »
I don't think terrorists have elastic morals; Islamist ones, at any rate, seem to have seriously perverted but very rigid morals.
As for Islamic involvement in finance, The major Islamic countries go to great lengths to make their banking and finance sharia-compliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance
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« Reply #327 on: December 06, 2023, 09:23:00 AM »
I don't think terrorists have elastic morals; Islamist ones, at any rate, seem to have seriously perverted but very rigid morals.
As for Islamic involvement in finance, The major Islamic countries go to great lengths to make their banking and finance sharia-compliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance


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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #328 on: December 09, 2023, 07:01:37 PM »
Hardly surprising,  and yet just accepted by so many.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67670679

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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #329 on: December 13, 2023, 02:57:00 PM »

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« Reply #330 on: December 13, 2023, 05:59:52 PM »
Headline
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Support for Hamas grows among Palestinians in West Bank
Unfortunately, that sounds at lot less surprising.
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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #332 on: December 14, 2023, 05:32:31 PM »
Hamas attacks foiled in Europe? ?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67715120

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« Reply #333 on: December 15, 2023, 11:35:32 PM »
UN aid worker describes nightmare journey to al-Ahli Hospital.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67732347

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« Reply #334 on: December 16, 2023, 12:38:12 AM »

Israel kills three hostages by mistake.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67732353

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« Reply #335 on: December 16, 2023, 08:05:18 AM »
Headline Unfortunately, that sounds at lot less surprising.
Also not particularly surprising is the support for Israeli government terrorism against Palestinian civilians by warmongers in the US and UK government. Terrorists fighting terrorists. Except Israeli terrorists get better funding for propaganda and weapons.
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« Reply #336 on: December 16, 2023, 08:19:09 AM »
I don't think terrorists have elastic morals; Islamist ones, at any rate, seem to have seriously perverted but very rigid morals.
As for Islamic involvement in finance, The major Islamic countries go to great lengths to make their banking and finance sharia-compliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance
Not sure where you got that idea that they have rigid morals. Like most people they may be rigid about a select few rules such as praying or belief in Allah but pretty lax about others eg drinking, taking drugs, killing people to pursue a political agenda. Islamic Terrorists are much like other people who kill for a cause or a mission - eg armed forces - so no different to the IDF for example- they are trained to complete a job. If it’s perverse to kill and terrorise people for political reasons- it seems to be a widespread perversion shared by most governments and armed forces. Why is it perverse if terrorists do it but not if governments do it?

The people who train terrorists / militants / armies are usually pretty cynical- ie they can see all governments lie and kill and are corrupt, some more than others, so they are just another actor in the political arena trying to protect certain interests important to them.
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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #337 on: December 16, 2023, 05:36:14 PM »
'Layla Moran's family among hundreds trapped in Gaza church'


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67736723

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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #338 on: December 17, 2023, 09:53:15 AM »

Isn't a 'sustainable ceasefire' an end to the war?

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« Reply #339 on: December 18, 2023, 09:34:31 AM »
Ben Wallace warning Israel about a 'killing rage'. While he's not currently a minister, he's well supported in the Tory Party.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67745408

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« Reply #340 on: December 18, 2023, 02:15:27 PM »
'Layla Moran's family among hundreds trapped in Gaza church'


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67736723
More on those trapped. I find them being referred to as 'Gazans' in the headline interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67746432

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« Reply #341 on: December 18, 2023, 06:35:36 PM »
Tory chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee says Israel breaking international law

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67745408

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« Reply #342 on: December 22, 2023, 09:31:41 AM »
If you make truth doubtful, you make truth meaningless

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« Reply #343 on: December 24, 2023, 11:49:22 AM »

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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #344 on: December 26, 2023, 01:56:44 AM »
The peace on earth thing going really really well

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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #346 on: December 26, 2023, 09:42:12 PM »
'Israel-Gaza war will continue for months, IDF chief warns'.

Until they win? Whatever the fuck that means!


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« Reply #347 on: December 28, 2023, 09:22:03 PM »

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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #349 on: January 08, 2024, 09:12:11 PM »
The title of this thread is a bit dated now, so may I suggest it be changed to "The War in Gaza", or something similar?
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