Recent content by Colin Parkinson

If only Israel had left them a full functioning greenhouse based agriculture system when they left in 2005, oh wait they did and the Palestinians destroyed it.

There is a gas field off the coast they could have worked with the Israelis to gain from. But the real resource would their people, by focusing on education and creating a favourable banking and regulatory regime, they could make themselves very economically viable and would have both Israel and...

Funny how you don't write about the oppression of the Palestinians by the Ottomans. They were right bastards and despised Arabs. The UK was pretty generous to the Arabs post WWI and rewarded them with land and titles, not to mention Mecca. If you look at the census data from the Ottoman period...

Compulsory Cadet training........ One of my parents grew up in Bulgaria, she learned to strip an AK in school and to march in their parades.

Our national HQ came up with a process flowchart of their idea of how we should do things that occupied 20' of wall space when printed out. Thankfully we managed to reduce that in the regions by a significant amount after we sent then a picture of there idea's.

When Saddam fell, the Iraqi's lashed out at the palestinians who had been given preferential treatment by Saddam and I suspect were more loyal to him. If I was Assad, I would offer land and citizenship to Palestinians that swear loyalty to him. He is short of manpower and needs to populate...

I think a lot of the anger and frustration is that we spend our resources on this stuff and not on things to do the job that you are given. When you don't have ammunition, enough clothing, no AD, no ATGM's, no spare parts, not enough radios, etc, etc. Then magically these machines appear in the...

All the muslim countries can start by compensating Jews who had to flee from their ancestral homes across the Islamic world. Also when you listen to even the average Palestinians, they want all the Jews gone, they aren't interested in sharing either. Oct 7th was just a practice for the main event.

Israel cannot resolve Palestinian grievances without cutting their own throats. Even if they gave up more of the WB, that will not satisfy the Palestinians. Israel gave up Gaza in 2005 and they got Oct 7th and 15,000 rocket for doing so. None of the countries pressing Israel, would do themselves...

Some friction between Egypt and Israel. Likely some supporters of Hamas within the ranks, or Egyptian army members upset about the loss of income from the smuggling tunnels. Israeli, Egyptian forces exchange fire, Egyptian soldier killed

Problem is they are dammed if they do or don't. The people who hate Israel and Jews, will continue to hate them regardless of what they do. Looks how fast Oct 7th was being downplayed even in the West. I suspect the Israelis don't feel like they have any real friends anyways and very little to...

Possibly 15,000 if they do a 50/50 split of people going military/other

Sounds like the idea is not to far off of public opinion, the devil will be in the details of course.

That's the same number they suffered from combined disease and injury in a 10 year conflict in Afghanistan, along with 58,000 dead. this time I suspect the number of dead Russians is close to 100,000.

4,000 tons, will be the size of the Halifax's