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From: Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net>
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Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 14:08:10 +0000
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On 03/03/2025 at 11:37, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 11:18:42 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-03-02 00:02, Peter Moylan wrote:
>>>> On 02/03/25 11:26, Snidely wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> A bit like the idiot who said he had a solution to end a war but
>>>>>> forgot to invite one of the parties to the negotiations.
>>>>>
>>>>> You're being generous if you think it was just forgetting.  The
>>>>> display he and his wingman Vance just gave was clearly intended to
>>>>> have Ukraine twisting in the wind.
>>>>
>>>> Trump didn't seem to understand the impression that the TV audience got.
>>>> It went down well in Moscow, of course, along with Putin's comment that
>>>> Zelenskyy had been "disciplined". Throughout the Western world, though,
>>>> the reactions were along the lines of "this will go down as America's
>>>> most shameful day in history". Zelenskyy went on to London and got a
>>>> hero's welcome, and all the European leaders seem to have closed ranks
>>>> behind Ukraine. Trump came across as a little kid having a tantrum.
>>>
>>> We can expect nothing more from Trump. USA LLC is now a company with a
>>> CEO that runs it based solely on profits, and with no HR department.
>>> This is made worse by his belief that it's not enough to win in any deal
>>> he makes, but the other party has to lose.
>>>
>>> IMO he is currently the single worst human? on the planet, with Putin as
>>> a close second. Both of them are the most likely to start a nuclear war.
>>
>> I think you overlooked Netanyahu.
> 
> Deliberately I guess.
> This is also your South African perspective showing.
> In the USA and much of Western Europe all mention of Netanyahu
> in connection with crimes against humanity, or war crimes,
> is met with voluminous howling of 'anti-semitism'.
> (against Francesca Albanese for example)
> 
> Netanyahu is the good guy, and all he does is justified
> because he is fighting those horrible 'terrorist'.
> It is all the fault of the ICC, for falsely accusing him.
> 
> They cannot see Israel like South Africa sees it,
> as an example of an apartheids regime,
> and as just another nasty (de)colonisation war.
> 
> 'The West' (-USA by now) also fails to see
> that it is their double standard
> wrt Gaza/Ukraine that makes 'the rest ot the world'
> unwilling to widely condemn Russia for its agression.
> 
> Jan
> (yes, too broad a brush)
> 

I've never understood why -
Several hundred Israelis 'captured' by Hamas = Hostages
Several thousand Palestinians captured and kept in Israeli gaols without 
trial = Prisoners
Aren't they hostages, too?

-- 
Chris Elvidge, England
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