Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Another POV
It may not be a case of support, just a case of looking at facts.
Here in England, Israel is demonised, yet if you look at the facts without the media brainwashing, you may change your mind.
Israel is sold to the British as being a apartheid regime, I have been there and know it is a lie, 1.5 million Arabs live in Israel, how many Jews live in Gaza?
Even the major road signs are in Arabic as well as Hebrew and English.
Arabs are free to speak Arabic freely in Israel. If anyone in Gaza is heard speaking Hebrew, they would be tortured and killed for being an Israeli spy.
The people of Gaza are ruled by a terrorist organisation who would become redundant if there was a peace with Israel, Israel on the other hand has peace deals with Egypt, despite being attacked on a number of occasions from the Egyptian side, and it has peace with Jordan, and is now in dialogue with Saudi arabia.
Now let’s look at Israel's main enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah, both terrorist organisations, the Assad regime, we all know what they stand for and Iran where they hang people for being homosexual.
It is not a case of taking sides, it is a case of hoping the Palestinian's can be free of Hamas and that the demonization of Israel stops, with those two things in place hopefully the standard of living and safety of all involved will rise and lead to peace.