Yeah it seems to merely be a business decision, less about a conscience and more about avoiding losing more anti-trust suits.

Am not surprised. Would have required higher social standing for you to have such access ;)

The Eulogy Song is definitely still relevant…

Diana died with Arab semen on her dress?

People are not “placed” on the floor that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media.

Of all the things that went wrong the journalist leads the story with a criticism of the grammar? People are “placed” under arrest, placed first in a competition, placed in a job etc

Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.

Desperate for a hot take? Exploiting the tragic death for a literary career beyond journalism? I admit to not reading the article so maybe I am being too harsh - am sure someone here will tell me if so.

And you want what? Israel to roll over and allow continuous repeats of Oct 7 (which Hamas vowed to do, on the record)?

Here is a more mature argument you could have used against me: How would Israel know if all of Hamas surrendered anyhow? What could possibly count as a surrender?

UNWRA was compromised so the impartial party option has been abandoned.

It requires military to keep Hamas from stealing the aid. It is not realistic to expect an outside neutral military to take on this task. UN could not keep Hezbollah in check in Lebanon.

It seems Hamas are annoyed not just that they are being denied supplies for themselves and to sell to civilians but also because they need civilians to be starving to win the PR battle. Full stomachs will divert attention from the war so should we starve the people? Which is it? Allowing Hamas to hijack it isn’t going to happen so forget what the UN says (which is very vague).

Regardless of what we argue here, the distribution will continue. It is just two days into it so let’s see if it going well. Of course for some ProPals it will not go well unless Jews vacate the Levant (an unrealistic fantasy regardless of whether one believes they should be there or not).

Luckily the distribution seems to be going well though. That is a good thing, yes?

You are right but it wasn’t in the Crikey article of OP so go maybe easy on the commenter.

It is a good point however Likud took 5 dud attempted coalitions before coming back in power. Bibi was about to go on trial for embezzlement. They were not that popular.

Unfortunately while Likud are still not popular, political pundits say the Left would be very unlikely to form a coalition government in the next election.

Admittedly Crikey accidentally made it sound worse by taking it out of context but they may not have had access to the video (which has since been posted in this thread).

Nevertheless, a one-state solution cannot work because Hamas are not seeking what this guest is talking about.

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri… [in an] interview, which aired on a Libyan television channel… referred with indifference to the number of Palestinians who have been killed in the Gaza war, calling this “the price we have to pay,” and remarked that the women of Gaza will compensate for the loss by “producing” more babies than those who have been killed.

https://www.memri.org/reports/gazans-furious-hamas-it-has-nothing-contempt-victims-war-and-prepared-sacrifice-us-all

ProPals throw accusations of “whataboutism” when someone tries to discuss nuance as often as Zionists throw “anti-Semitism” when they are criticised.

The two points remain unaddressed by you:

Hamas hijack aid and are complaining now that IDF wants to control the distribution to prevent this.

Hamas could surrender for a swift end to the war.

everything Hamas does is also lsrael’s fault. lsrael created Hamas. They funded Hamas deliberately as a way to destabilise the Palestinians.

Indeed. Bibi favoured Hamas over Fatah and for cynical reasons as you point out. You are not talking to a one-eyed football mentality person.

Hamas (being right wing fascists like Likud) should have known the consequences of Oct 7 well in advance but they naively thought they could rally Arab neighbours to battle like in the past.

That meme ignores Hamas hijacking aid.

Hamas could just surrender.

I thought my memory was failing me but it really was low key at the start eh?

TIL Tungsten is represented as W on the periodic table. But you lost me with the rest…

The “J” stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table.

Bed time here. Maybe I wake up to a humourous reveal here tomorrow.

Well played :)

I mean that must have been his pun from the outset but it didn’t occur to me.

Makes me more likely to watch. Maybe OP isn’t aware of Veritasium’s reputation.

Perhaps instead of Medicare Levy they should call it Medicare Insurance.

From what I can tell, the average ABC worker is on the right side of this.

The average worker is Left wing and therefore agrees with Hamas’ position. I am Left but often disagree with them on the Gaza issues. In fact their dodgy reporting on Al Ahli hospital early on lost them their credibility.

I have not seen any news organisation consistently report “fairly”. The only example of even-handedness was a pair of entries from a blogger a couple of months into the war (probably still valid - let me know if it has dated)…

https://yoavfisher.medium.com/israel-has-lost-the-war-d7b9b3934f73

https://yoavfisher.medium.com/hamas-has-lost-the-war-5bea9813fcf3

And since they went through the bother of “accidentally” uploading it, why did they go through the extra bother to remove it?

They play both sides. Am sure they have their own internal battles of which side to support since they do not seem consistent to me.