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Alastair Crooke : Netanyahu’s Imaginary Victories (Nap)

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 12:12 pm

Resistance groups as biological organisms ..

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 1:20 pm, in reply to "Alastair Crooke : Netanyahu’s Imaginary Victories (Nap)"

You can cut off the head, even, and it regenerates a new one effortlessly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planaria

- Shyaku

Dunno if that's a good analogy.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 3:43 pm, in reply to "Resistance groups as biological organisms .."

It has in the past been used in Western propaganda where the far eastern nationalists, commies... socialists etc were depicted as the poisonous many headed Hydra which regenerated its heads when cut off.
One of my old man's Korean war medals depicts the hydra being vanquished where obviously the victorious west appears in the guise of Heracles...

Worms are cute

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 5:54 pm, in reply to "Dunno if that's a good analogy."

Good point though I will say that stem cells were not known about in those times.

Anyway, just a thought, doesn’t really matter.

- Shyaku

Re: Dunno if that's a good analogy.

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 9:14 pm, in reply to "Dunno if that's a good analogy."

One of my old man's Korean war medals depicts the hydra being vanquished where obviously the victorious west appears in the guise of Heracles...

Perhaps as a side issue (never mind stem cells : )), how did yer old man depict the Korean war, and his involvement, especially to you and his family, or did he not talk about it like many veterans of the WW2 chose not to etc.

Re: Dunno if that's a good analogy.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 10:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Dunno if that's a good analogy."

I think he was at the so-called "Battle of Chumonchin Chan" ...which was so inconsequential and unbalanced he said little about it. He was derisive about his Suez experience too: though I do distinctly recall him admiring the Egyptians:

"...You would get some old bearded Arabs shooting the ship from dhows with what looked like ancient blunderbus': they got a shell fired over the bows...and usually got the message. If not it was a shame: because they were brave men just defending their country... "

Re: Dunno if that's a good analogy.

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 4, 2024, 10:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Dunno if that's a good analogy."

.. though I do distinctly recall him admiring the Egyptians:

"...You would get some old bearded Arabs shooting the ship from dhows with what looked like ancient blunderbus': they got a shell fired over the bows...and usually got the message. If not it was a shame: because they were brave men just defending their country... "

Nice one. Interesting recall. My dad was with the partisans chasing out the nazis out of (former) Yugoslavia. I only have had photographs with my gran giving me the context. TG for grandmothers : ).

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