Under no circumstances in the world, could any sane person believe that the state of Israel is just defending itself. It's entirely the author of it's own misfortune and ultimate demise. And I'm not sure that many around the world will shed a tear. You fook people over, it comes home to roost. A gre...

Some of the main protagonists were gung-ho for talks at Leinster House with a view to ending the protests But they were turned away from the meeting by security at the door A mistake, maybe . Even if it is against normal rules, given the gravity of the crisis, a blind eye could have been temporaril...

Ireniall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2026 11:09 pm What a load of scutter.

The truth hurts... accept it, move backwards... unite... move forwards.... establish a new state.…login to view the rest of this post

Rather the “position” taken by the usual suspects on this thread and the pseudo debate and dogma you witter at each other, directly stems from your hate for Israel. It's not that I hate israel. I and many others have gone from a position of an understanding of it's history and a tolerance of occasi...

Got caught behind a protest last night, but was able to get round with a detour. Have no problem in principle with the concept of the fuel protests, but if it's allowed to be hijacked by the send-em-all-home brigade that's a different kettle of fish entirely. These are all casually linked. The gove...

@Aggie Would you ever just go away? There are two very good threads on this site which you & others can populate with all your anti semitic and Zionist arguments https://gubu.ie/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2588 https://gubu.ie/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2238&start=3600 Threads that normal sane peop...

This thread should be renamed 'For the Greater Glory of israel' or along those lines. Let the defenders of Israeli honour stick to other threads where we can ignore them,

It has little enough to do with the war launched by Israel & the US on Iran.

Farmers and Hauliers have representative bodies that negotiate with government on a range of issues. That's the government line.......... but the vast majority of rural voters and tax payers are not represented by the above representative bodies. I'm gobsmacked to an extent to hear senior political...

Zionism is the real cancer to the whole Middle East and the world at large. No one believes Zionists and their Hasbara sob stories anymore because it's simply too obvious that they're a bunch of pathological liars and fanatics. And how do you treat cancer? How do you treat a violent animal that you...

Oh I'd say the Gardaí will do whatever the Taoiseachs office tells them to do. I'm pretty disgusted at the attitude of Martin, Harris, O'Donovan and others trotted out to defend their excessive taxation. The likes of the hauliers assoc or IFA do not represent ordinary rural people. The boyos above w...

. Add to that - Waterford City and County Council passed a motion in December 2025 calling on the Irish government to begin active preparations for the reunification of Ireland. And just this March 2026, Mayo County Council passed a motion calling on the Irish Government to formally begin preparati...

So the point you are studiously avoiding making is that we should have accepted direct rule from Westminster, did our time as slaves to British opinion which was malign for another eighty years and emerged intact sometime around the sixties or seventies let's say when the British had house-trained ...

Remember when the left were screaming something needs to be done about the evil Iranian regime for supporting and sending Russia Drones and military assistance, killing countless Ukrainians. Trump just took out their Navy, Air force, Air defence and Ayatollah in a wet week. For sure, but it is also...

Flyguy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2026 7:12 pm Enjoy the last of the popcorn folks.

The world is indeed in a dangerous place tonight, maybe not considerable loss of humanity but the destruction of many economies.

And all the facile Israeli posters do here is bleat on about anti semitism. That may be redundant for them soon enough.…login to view the rest of this post

The 'alternative' narrative is yours. I'm saying that the alternative was to remain in the UK with Home Rule instead of independence. It was tried but the British wanted more-they wanted partition on top-the very condition that released the south from having any reason to remain in the UK. What you...

I’m sure you will still get people claiming that the attack on Iran was, at least in part, inspired by his wish to free the suppressed Iranian people. The whole thing is unacceptable, and so is the silence from other world leaders who just stand by. I doubt if other world leaders are standing idly ...

Irrelevant. Indians partitioned India when they were finished with the British. But the British partitioned Ireland with every intention of forcibly retaining control of both parts. East Ulster had stayed the hand of Irish Nationalists for decades so why , after it was gone, would the Irish want an...

Adolf Hitler ordered the total destruction of the village of Lidice in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Must be very careful now ! Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is antisemitic, according to the IHRA's non-legally binding screed of gob...

So Israel yet again attack an Iranian oil/gas facility. Question is are they 1) trying to force Trump's hand into bombing Iran back into the stone age or 2) doing Trump's dirty work for him? Whichever, they are bad actors and a cancer for many economies.

GolahVe-Nekhar wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2026 7:33 pm The fact of Trump coming out with such profanity of a day such as this as a President of any government was disgusting and problematic.

Disgusting behaviour. Not fit to run a local residents association.…login to view the rest of this post

And so we return to the fact-free prognostications so beloved of the Paddystinians. So give us the facts & figures then oh great one. A bascic profit and loss for the state of Israel. How much tax from Israeli citizens and Israeli businesses did the state of Israel raise in 2025? What was the s...

'a government a la Wales and Scotland'. I agree that Wales and Scotland can leave the UK intact if they so choose but in your own time now what was the great difference between the devolution which Wales and Scotland got and the version Ireland was to get and why had Irish nationalists refused the ...

Irish History wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2026 2:33 pm And I can only repeat - you are a particularly stupid person.

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Israel funds the overwhelming majority of its own defence spending through its own taxation. Its military budget is multiples times larger than the annual US aid package. ... No matter how many times these basic concepts are explained, you still struggle to grasp them. Yes we struggle to understand...

Amazing how often the same threadbare fantasy gets recycled - variations of “once the US drops out/stops sending military aid/stops all support, Israel will finally get what’s coming.” The numbers and reality doesn’t support it. Iran’s 600k active personnel are poorly trained and equipped, with no ...