Palestinian footballer, Mahmoud Sarsak, released after 3 years in an Israel jail

[Mike Sheehy]

They were making the same jokes about Bobby Sands in Ballymena in 1981, bigfella.
It's just ignorance. Would you joke about the Holocaust? Of course not.

That is rich coming from the man who was on a constant troll on the Boston thread. An 8 year old was killed and all you want to do is go off on your usual anti-American rants 

Also, the way you cynically use the troubles to get lads from the North  "onside" is laughable. It is so transparent.     

[Mike Sheehy]

What they are doing to gaza is a crime against humanity. The truth will come out.

No argument here. As for whether he should be a pariah, perhaps, but a war criminal?

War Crimes are those serious violations of the rules of customary and treaty law concerning international humanitarian law that have become accepted as criminal offences for which there is individual responsibility.

Took that from "International Law" by Shaw, it's only one definition obviously, but a standard one.

Sorry for dragging the thread off topic but we lose the moral argument and leave the legitimate issues open to dismissal when we start to sound as unreasonable as those whose actions we object to is all I'm saying.

Fair enough but what Israel is doing to Gaza constitutes a war crime. Two Croatians were sentenced in December for terrorism, bombings and other activities which led to the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian minority population of Crotia, which was a war crime. Israel is rendering Gaza uninhabitable. Shalit shouldn't be feted anywhere. He is part of an evil system.

His ultimate superiors are war criminals.

So is Shalit a war criminal or not ? You said he was and now you seem to be backtracking. If so, why did you say he was a war criminal in the first place ?

Do you actually believe what you say or do you just say these things to rabble rouse ? I suspect the latter.

People like you are the worst thing that ever happened to the Palestinian cause.

[Mike Sheehy]

No sign of Seafoid. No doubt he is scurrying around the lanes off banhofstrasse distributing his ill-gotten gains.

[seafoid]

I hope Kerry make it past round 4 of the qualifiers this year.