€5 !!! For duck ?? €16 for duck where I am. Though it does include rice and beansprouts Ahhh ..... Someone was gunna do it
The mother and ducklings I'd been keeping an eye out for when I'm out walking in the morning,and had been seeing every couple of days, I haven't seen in the last 4 days. I'll be fucking gutted if some tramp has snatched the ducklings. My kids told me that nearly all the kids in school who bought them,have gotten rid of them already.
What exactly is the tiktok duck thing? I googled but nothing specific came up. Is it just that kids want to have a duck in their video?
Snapchat is still going yeah but theres little to no money to be made from it, I'm not on tik tok myself but from what I've read making money from it is similar to Instagram where its sponsored vids from brands, ads and I think some artists pay people(based on followers I'd imagine) to use their music in videos in order to make it popular,
Israel/Palestine Why did this all kick off? I know there's always been tension. But was there an event or incident that kicked it all off?
Reading up a bit this week and it appears there was due to be evictions of Palestinians from a part of Jerusalem. Tensions have been high and last Friday was a flash point at a mosque. Saw a report that over 1000 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel in last few nights but not as much coverage on thoS killed on other side as collateral damage. Even our pal Biden talking about Israel having the right to defend itself... I know it’s fictional show but watched that show Fauda on Netflix which is based on the conflict there. It does not really take either side, shows the effects on ordinary people though.
It's criminal what they're doing there, absolutely insane that Israel is treated as a normal western country and everyone just turns a blind eye to the fact that they're allowed operate an huge open prison there in Palestine while they continue to push their radical agenda for expansion by driving Arab minorities from their homes because they claim some legitimate holy right to the area. Of course Hamas are in the wrong nobody would deny it but if you continue to treat people like that you can't expect them to react like this, this is state sponsored terrorism funded largely by the US and it's become such a crazy situation that to even question what's going on sees you labelled as a racist.
In time this will be like it was with South African apartheid. People who took the South African governments side couldn't get far enough up Mandelas hole once the tide of public opinion turned. What Israel are doing is fucking disgusting,and to accuse anybody of being an antisemite for holding that view, is in itself antisemitism.
How Israel are getting away with it is really unbelievable. Ever watch the louis the roux about the hard line Jewish people in these illegal settlements. It's crazy with yanks and German and think Russians brought in to live in these places.
Israel has more allies and global influence than SA ever had and this is why they will continue to get away with murder. I don't see that changing in my lifetime.
It depends what you mean by getting away with it. They're not losing the backing of the US government anytime soon. I'm talking about the commentators and politicians on this side of the world who consistently go to bat for them. That rhetoric will become toxic and lead to proper sanctions being placed on Israel because it will eventually cost them money and or/power.
I think there are too many people in positions of power, in the world of politics, business, industry and the rest, who are supporters or sympathetic to Israel. I don't want to sound crass but how many people in those positions of influence give a shit about Palestine? That leaves it up to the general public to campaign and protest and use the power of their votes to persuade their governments to act. I haven't seen anything to suggest to me that will happen.
Nobody gave a shit about South Africa either until they did. It was the general public and probably more importantly celebrities who made the people in power care. Watching the reaction to what's been going on lately makes me believe Israel isn't far away from gaining a similar level of toxicity. People in sports, film,music all taking a stand. The accusations of anti semitism aren't landing anymore. Where Mandela was the focal point to raise awareness for the apartheid movement, the pictures and videos of murdered children can be the focal point here. Politicians are supporters of whatever it makes sense for them politically to be supportive of. I think we'll get to a point where it makes sense to be supportive of the Palestinian people.
1. SA didn't have the global influence that Israel does. 2. I haven't seen/heard that myself but it is certainly a good start. 3. I would hope the rest of the world eventually says 'enough is enough' but I don't ever see them pinning the bad guy label on Israel and genuinely being tough on them. I think it will end up with soft diplomacy and Palestinians being told "what you have now, you can keep. You're welcome." Really hope I'm wrong obviously.
I wish that it could be that way Mick I really do and hopefully in time you'll be proved right but I just honestly feel that there is so much more at play here than was ever involved in SA. The money and power behind the Israel lobby is quite frightening and the strategic alliance it gives the US in the middle east make it very powerful, without a radical change in the middle east entirely it's hard to see anything changing. A nod to the fact that this is so much about power is that the Saudi's are signing up to trade deals with Israel, one of Trumps "great" achievements. I really don't see any hope of change in our lifetime in the occupied territories and in fact it could get an awful lot worse too.
I'm listening to some of the people defending Israel and it reminds me of an English radio phone in show that I listened to last week. It was about the campaign to ban charges against British veterans who may have committed crimes during the troubles. The common argument from those who backed the idea was that if terrorists could be granted amnesty under the GFA, then it had to be the same for British Army veterans as one side shouldn't be given special treatment. The counter argument was military personnel needed to be held to a higher standard than terrorists. (These are not my terms by the way,its just how the debate was framed) But frustratingly, nobody raised the very obvious point that the British Army had been given special treatment during the whole conflict. The law allowed them to be heavily armed and use lethal force where appropriate, without suffering any consequences,while there was no circumstances where it was permitted for paramilitaries to be armed or engage without being charged with a criminal offence. Now the people who enjoyed the special treatment those laws afforded them,are supposed to be free from any consequences of breaking those laws? I don't know who said it, but its an opinion that's stuck with me. It goes "conservatism divides the world into two groups. Those who the law protects and does not bind, and those who the law binds but does not protect". And a lot of people seem to think that's how things should be. They tell you Israel has a right to protect itself from illegal rocket attacks,so the illegal acts carried out by Israeli forces are justified. Again its Israels sympathisers who are happy to quote international law that makes any attack on its territory a terrorist attack,while they simultaneously defend Isreal pissing all over international law with atrocity after atrocity. Id be interested to hear somebody with that mindset to explain why they think Israelshould have carte blanche when it comes to defense of Israel,but Palestine deserves no rights to defend itself at all.
There will be sanctions and mass boycotts of Israel long before we kick the bucket Ed. Sports stars and team will refuse to go there,musicians will refuse to do concerts there and they'll face economic sanctions from a lot of countries. What impact they will have with America on their side is another matter,but Israels reputation will be no better than South Africa's was during apartheid.