The case will be a load of baloney.

Red and Blue Army!

That DAs are elected in NY is understood as is that the current one is a Democrat. They still though need to follow the law and have their allegations judged.

This case is of Trump's business and not his politics. NY has long sought to bring the Trump business to book. This case has been years in the making. So why now? He can no longer claim he is immune because he is President. He might be immune again. So now is the time. I think they would have prosecuted Trump whatever the politics he claimed to hold.

So yes, they are out to get Trump, but not because of his politics. It's much more to do with his ethics.

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Defend this one !

Indefensible

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

No need. It’s explained perfectly well in the article.

Of course that won’t satisfy politicians or people with your political outlook but I understand why it’s necessary for a public service broadcaster with such a high reputation for impartiality as the BBC (with anyone objectively looking at the facts) to adopt such a position. They aren’t alone.

They condemn acts of terrorism and atrocities but leave it to us to decide the label we use about the perpetrators. They report how others describe them though.

If impartiality is your gold standard then impartial you must be, no matter how upset that makes some people.

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It has nothing to do with not wishing to upset Muslims.

Exactly the same approach is taken with every group or religion. They report facts. They leave us to reach opinions.

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It is indefensible and, worst of all, daft. Hamas has been prescribed, through secondary legislation, as a terrorist organization. If any sensitive voices out there are offended by the BBC describing them as such, the BBC can simply hide behind the law and advise them to contact their MP if they don't like it.

The BBC can (quite rightly) decry the fate of many innocent Palestinians caught up in this horror. The Israeli thirst for blood in destroying entire apartment blocks as there may (or may not) be a few Hamas leaders staying there is unconscionable and must be reported. However, having that message distracted by this sort of pedantic semantic is pure stupidity.

Pretty much.

Blair is the dark lord himself.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Labour stands for what ever might get them in power.

The perception that Leftists are generally happy to see immigrants flood the country and be given positive discrimination is common.
That is because it's generally true.
They are happy to overlook rape, terrorism and outdated religious dogma in pursuit of a fantasy future where we all hold hands.

Notwithstanding what I said above, the problem with Hamas is they were elected. Thus, it was (past tense) difficult to describe them as terrorists if they were also duly elected representatives for their people. It is wholly counter to the definition of that word to describe an elected body as terrorists. Thus, if you describe them as terrorists, you MUST also describe Israel as the same, given they murder hundreds of innocent - but "acceptable collateral" - Palestinians every year. It is a murky area.

That said, their conduct and constitution has altered all that to the extent that the UK has had to formally designated them as such.

Nevertheless, it stuns me that many posters on here are genuinely of the view that the only good Arab/Muslim is a dead one. I find those views appalling and have a great deal of sympathy with the Palestinian people who have been robbed and exiled and then repeatedly kicked while down.

However, my sympathy does not extend to Hamas. Not just through their conduct, but by their desire to murder millions of Israelis and then set up a brutal, theocratic dictatorship.

The trouble is, I do not know how to wipe them off the face of the map without murdering countless innocents. It is certainly not by the methods adopted by the current murderous, failed, Israeli government whose blood lust will cause awful consequent events to ripple through history. All this while the West sits in the sidelines cheering them on, oblivious to the consequences.

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