John Smith wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2023 at 1:27pm:

A court/inquest/authorised body determines if a crime is likely to have been committed - that there is enough evidence to come to that finding.

A coronial inquest can determine that someone was murdered... if it turns out that, say, he faked his death and turns up in Argentina, then the coroner's finding will be overturned. Similarly, if evidence is uncovered that he died of causes other than murder. The Chamberlain case was a classic example of this.

The case with Holt is the same. If, say, a death-bed confession of murder was made - with evidence to prove it, then the finding that Holt drowned at sea would be overturned.

That the sun revolves around the earth was true until it was overturned as a scientific fact when evidence that the reverse was true was accepted. If it turns out that nothing revolves around anything and that it is, say, the forces of dark matter that make it appear that the Earth revolves around the sun, then that will be the new truth.

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MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2023 at 2:27pm:


It is a dilemma. As I said in my earlier post, the Israelis are damned if they do and damned if they don't. There are no good options here. I believe that they have taken the least worst one.

Finally we’re getting to the point. Thank you Meister. Thank you Belgarian.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2023 at 2:27pm:



The world was hoping to see the end of such war crimes as
indiscriminate bombing of cities after WW2 but it continues to this very day.
When the Allies won WW2 it was a hollow victory as they lost their souls to do it.

The worst criminals are the Govts. of this world.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2023 at 2:53pm:



The Germans bombed London for 57 nights in a row in the Blitz.
They thought it was a good idea as Britain would
never be able to do the same to their cities. 

Well - it didn't turn out that way and Israel should remember that -
as their own cities may get a walloping from Hezbollah with 150,000 rockets -
many are large and precision guided.
Human beings never learn from history which is why we repeat our mistakes.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2023 at 3:03pm:



Israel should have learnt by now.
I would say that their bombing campaign has done very little to weaken Hamas
and most of the tunnels are still intact as some are 70 meters deep.
What they have done is turn the world against Israel as the appalling
civilian casualties are beamed live to the whole world.

Gaza's problem is that the Arab nations, almost universally, want nothing to do with Gaza, or even the Palestinian cause.

After 75 years, they have all grown into the fact that Israel cannot be 'driven into the sea'.

This war is likely the Iranian theocracy's last-ditch attempt to prevent the Abraham Peace Accords from succeeding.

The signing of that accord would likely signal the end of Iran's ambitions of becoming the dominant power in the region, which would then be controlled by a Sunni Muslim/Israeli alliance.