I have a feeling that both sides would call their representatives traitors. Therefore, either you'd need a rematch, then another rematch, or both dukestars, would be condemned by higher powers who never had boxing lessons.

I'm not talking about the protagonists each nominating a champion to fight on their behalf here.

Just like a 1970s football rumble, anyone with a beef should rock up and fight. If after the scrap, they still have an argument, then they should turn up at the same time next week and have another go.

It's funny, I was discussing this with the missus and my conclusion was that the leaders play paintball. They would be more inclined to turn up and take part, what without the fear of actual bodily harm (save for a few welts), and they get to do their shooting thing at each other while banging their chests with their fists. Civilians from both sides can sit and watch sharing popcorn. After a few rounds of paintball, I'm sure they would come to a less painful solution to their issues!

Afterwards, while they are nursing their sores, they can then contemplate how much more painful it would have been if it was real guns and live ammunition.

One of the main reasons I can no longer be bothered indulging not just this message board but all others is the way furious discussion can pop into existence and then expand like a virgin universe, with everyone remonstrating with the kind of certainty usually associated with a FOX News mouthpiece or those handful of academics judged "respected authority" without anyone first ... say ... [ibothering to investigate which Israeli "peace settlement" conditions Hamas has refused to accept. [/i

Although, it would then be impossible NOT TO think about that which has been understood by EVERYONE since the very beginning and yet must always remain unspeakable.

All of which is caused by the dominance of rolling news snippets on TV and radio and news opinions in printed media - and our total acquiescence to this method of presenting opinion and propaganda as "official news" - 'twas always thus of course but is even moreso today when you don't even need to make an effort to watch or listen to "news", its on your phone in handy bite sized chunks or rolling across the bottom of your TV set while you eat breakfast.

What they say is what we digest, regardless of who is feeding them the stories.

Good to see Israel doing its bit to keep the natives sweet.

rlIsrael to expropriate 400 hectares of West Bankrl

And Israel still tries to claim it's wants peace with the Palestinians, what a joke.

Does Hamas want peace with Israel? Does Hamas even recognise the right for Israel to exist in any form?

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