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Hi Tony, can you add, Joe Henderson - State of the Tenor Curtis Fuller -The opener Thanks, Martin.

https://aje.io/ouvrsq I can't understand how this despicable vindictive destruction is considered acceptable behaviour by an occupying military, and supported by our politicians.

Our country's hypocrisy, overthrowing a democratic government to gain influence over their oil reserves and now lauding Israel as the only middle eastern democracy. Backing Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, overlooking Iraq's use of chemical weapons in that conflict then later invading Iraq on the...

Difficult to guess if Russia would help Iran to any great extent. Pakistan has nuclear weapons too !

I'm not defending Iran anymore than I would Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Israel or any other repressive state. Merely following Gav's post about the Iranian revolution, and highlighting our past and current hypocrisy which the Iranians are surely aware of.

I imagine Iran are still annoyed by the 1953 coup, and the UK/US role in that sorry episode.

Owned a Pearl twin reverb around 1980, looked very similar to this, an imitation of a valve Fender twin ? The spring reverb used to rattle during transport, it took some real hammer. Boy was it loud, and clean !! It generated a few noises complaints. Looking back I didn't appreciate it fully...

Israel isn't alone in this, many in the US and here, our own Ben Wallace has called for hitting back doubly hard. The partial destruction of Iran would bring cheer to very many, I've read the words regime change several times recently. We could soon be looking at hundreds of Israeli and...

Owen is surely one of the adults in the room. Fox news website is full of ex US military and Republican politicians calling for war on Iran. They would love it to go the way of Libya, Syria, Iraq, failed chaotic yet ineffective in terms of geopolitics. Israel extracted the price for Iran's...

On a slight (vague tangent) there was a piece on radio 4 this morning, Sunday, about assigning a form of citizenship to whales, either in New Zealand or wider Polynesia. Whales were assessed to have a value of $2m, just as human life is assigned a value for economic calculations. If a ship...

Of course the Israeli state (being the only true democracy in the middle east) could grant equal rights to, and enfranchise the Palestinians. What threat would Hezbollah or Iran represent then ?

That's a shame, I'd revoke their citizenship and bar them from revisiting.

One could read from the above that the vast majority of Israelis have their roots elsewhere, Europe and Russia, in recent history too. Settler colonialism; being a "settler" of it's self may not necessarily be a bad thing, however if the indigenous people don't willingly acquiesce then violence...

This is a strange page in the history books. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_in_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse Imagine being born inside a state where the authorities have killed, perhaps, your parent or sibling. Living life under extreme surveillance that will uncover any feelings...