<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PanHAM" class="quote" target="_blank">PanHAM</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I am not batting fo...
Jump to postIsrael has a new President. The role may seem mainly ceremonial, with real power being in the hands of the Prime Minister, but it is important all the same. Reuven Rivlin is generally regarded as being a hardliner. He is opposed to any separate Palestinian State and has advocated that Israel should ...
Jump to postI am wondering exactly what the terms of the contract for the A350 was, as the Khaleej Times quotes "an Emirates spokesman" as saying “The contract which we signed in 2007 for 70 A350 aircraft has lapsed." <a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/aviation/2014/June/av...
Jump to postBribery and corruption at FIFA? Who would have thought? Votes are a commodity and like any other commodity those who offer the highest price get to wrap them up and take them home. Australia tried to buy votes by promising to fund sports facilities in other countries. Someone else offered a more att...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Dreadnought" class="quote" target="_blank">Dreadnought</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Remember Edward VIII?</i></font></td...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RyanairGuru" class="quote" target="_blank">RyanairGuru</a> (<a href="#45" class="quote">Reply 45</a>):<br/><i>that an attack on a NATO state aut...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Eagleboy" class="quote" target="_blank">Eagleboy</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>However I know of 2 occasions where a 5 ...
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Jump to postWell all this discussion of who was where first is very fascinating and I guess the acceptable answer depends on which side you support. But it should be evident even to blind Freddie that various people have lived there since time immemorial. The argument that all the Palestinians came from Jordan ...
Jump to postSadly there is so much hatred in the world and it often seems to be based on religious differences. Charles is right to quote the passage in the Qur'an where it is written <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cadet985" class="quote" target="_blank">cadet985</a> (<a href="#43" class="quote">Reply 43</a>):<br/><i>the only two countries in the Arab world...
Jump to postCadet985 You should be able to travel to the UAE without a problem on business or to visit. On the UAE Embassy in the US website FAQ page, the following questions appear: Q: I am an American traveling to the UAE, do I need a visa? A: Americans with US passports valid for more than six months are wel...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bobloblaw" class="quote" target="_blank">bobloblaw</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Actually, he ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mham001" class="quote" target="_blank">mham001</a> (<a href="#45" class="quote">Reply 45</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> They have had p...
Jump to postYes, it is sad that for reasons of political expedience groups are set apart and discriminated against, to the point of violence against them. While it is often argued that the expulsion of Jews from the Arabian peninsula, through northern Africa and into the Maghreb were a response to the creation ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BestWestern" class="quote" target="_blank">BestWestern</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>The Irish times doesn't need a subsc...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TheCommodore" class="quote" target="_blank">TheCommodore</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i>were not told </i></font></td></...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/L-188" class="quote" target="_blank">L-188</a> (<a href="#97" class="quote">Reply 97</a>):<br/><i>Socialized medicine kills. </i></font></td></t...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>Blood isn't even kosher. </i></f...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/elal+744" class="quote" target="_blank">elal 744</a> (<a href="#155" class="quote">Reply 155</a>):<br/><i>I would, however, greatly appreciate a...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Sadly neither o...
Jump to postYou are right, it isn't just some Egyptian thing. It is a story that has been repeated in many countries as it served a purpose. It fits with the demonisation of a group that is different, regarded as separate and a threat. That it has absolutely no basis in reality is immaterial. People will believ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RyanairGuru" class="quote" target="_blank">RyanairGuru</a> (<a href="#49" class="quote">Reply 49</a>):<br/><i>I think asking for country of birt...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyingturtle" class="quote" target="_blank">flyingturtle</a> (<a href="#57" class="quote">Reply 57</a>):<br/><i> A state exists only if it is re...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mariner" class="quote" target="_blank">mariner</a> (<a href="#40" class="quote">Reply 40</a>):<br/><i>but I fully identify as Australian. </i></...
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Jump to postEarlier in the thread I asked whether promotions were automatic as I could not understand why someone suspected of desertion would be promoted. BN747 has also pointed out that Bergdahl was promoted twice since his disappearance. This does seem odd. Now we learn from Caltech that Bergdahl renounced h...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EDKA" class="quote" target="_blank">EDKA</a> (<a href="#258" class="quote">Reply 258</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I suspect one of th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/B777LRF" class="quote" target="_blank">B777LRF</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i> buy your own aircraft, then set your own ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RyanairGuru" class="quote" target="_blank">RyanairGuru</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Certain...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PanHAM" class="quote" target="_blank">PanHAM</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Yes, the only "li...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ImperialEagle" class="quote" target="_blank">ImperialEagle</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Ayostus, I tried it and didn't h...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PanHAM" class="quote" target="_blank">PanHAM</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table border="0" al...
Jump to postI was always (still am) why <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> started an A380 service <acronym title="CURRENT: Munich (- Franz Josef Strauss) (MUC / EDDM), Germany AND OLD: Munich - Riem (MUC / EDDM) (closed), Germany">MUC</acronym> ahead of <acronym title="Frankfurt am M...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TheCommodore" class="quote" target="_blank">TheCommodore</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Israel is becoming increasingly is...
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Jump to postIn reality there is no change in the US position. As the linked article shows, the Government of Palestine does not include any members of Hamas but is made up of people described as "technocrats". The US position remains that it will not recognise a Government made up of, including or unduly influe...
Jump to postFirst off, I am pleased to learn that an arrest has been made and hopefully information may be gained to prevent further attacks. The issue of so-called Jihadis travelling to Syria is a concern here in Australia too. It is estimated that over 200 people with Australian citizenship have travelled to ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/todareisinger" class="quote" target="_blank">todareisinger</a> (<a href="#50" class="quote">Reply 50</a>):<br/><i>If your idea is for Israel to ...
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Jump to postFollowing a decision by British Home Office to deport a woman and her two daughters, Richard Branson is coming under pressure to personally intervene. The woman claims that her daughters will be subjected to forced female genital mutilation. Branson's daughter has publicly spoken out against FMG and...
Jump to postPerhaps what SFBdude is driving at is that Islam itself prescribes no particular form of government. Neither Qur'an nor Hadith provides clear instructions on what political institutions should be established. Over time various forms have evolved. So a government can be a monarchy, a military dictato...
Jump to postSorry to learn of your misfortune. I tend to keep cash, credit cards and travel documents in a pouch on my person at all times and not just because there may be a thief on board. What do you do in the "unlikely event of..."? You don't have the opportunity to take your carry-on luggage down an emerge...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BN747" class="quote" target="_blank">BN747</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>Then why was she killed right in front of the ...
Jump to postHow sad that this woman has been so brutally taken. My commiserations to her husband. This murder, for that is what it was, had nothing whatsoever to do with "honour" and if a report in the Guardian is to be believed, little to do with religion. It seems it was all to do with money. The parents had ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/zrs70" class="quote" target="_blank">zrs70</a> (<a href="#237" class="quote">Reply 237</a>):<br/><i>But why have so many threads attack Israel w...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/zrs70" class="quote" target="_blank">zrs70</a> (<a href="#235" class="quote">Reply 235</a>):<br/><i>Not so fast.</i></font></td></tr></table> No...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/todareisinger" class="quote" target="_blank">todareisinger</a> (<a href="#48" class="quote">Reply 48</a>):<br/><i> how do you settle 3 or 4 or 5...
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