Anyone ever live in the Middle East?

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Couldn’t even get Christy Moore to play there

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“ They say the skies of lebanon are burning

Those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat“

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A guy at work has a friend living there. Two miles away from the blast and all the windows in the apartment shattered and all the internal doors blown off their hinges.

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Must be the most recorded explosion of all time. The videos are insane, my reaction to the first one was “there ain’t no one surviving that”.

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It was the shock wave from the blast. Travels at the speed of sound. Most people wouldn’t have experienced one. Scary thing .

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Videos were unreal. Poor auld divils over there. Saw a video recently on Beiruit and it looked like a nice place. As someone said, they can’t catch a break. One bloke interviewed seemed to have a slight Aussie accent. I would imagine there’s a lot of over and back between Lebanon and Australia. Michael Cheika is of Lebanese extraction.

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Australia is full of Lebs. They were the most dangerous grouping I came across over there, they do a lot of security work and are complete animals.

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They have the cut of a nomad about them alright over there.

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They’re also the subject of most racism as well, the Aussies are a nasty bunch, Lebbo this and Abbo that

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A Lebanese bouncer broke my friends jaw in 3 places a couple of days after he had arrived in Australia. Same group of bouncers pulled a girl out of the pub by her hair a few nights later. It probably coloured my opinion of them after that.

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It’s handy then for the Paddy Roasters to bunk in with the Aussies and Lebbo and Abbo this and that around toon.

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Fire up a few there

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Lebanon should, by dint of geography, be one of the nicest places in the world.
It’s truly sad.

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It was. Once.

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https://www.bookdepository.com/Pity-the-Nation-Robert-Fisk/9780192801302?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base1&utm_source=IE&utm_content=Pity-the-Nation&selectCurrency=EUR&w=AFFPAU99VHLPMHA8VCH0&pdg=pla-293946777986:cmp-10333900495:adg-102993026076:crv-443150513206:pos-:dev-m&gclid=CjwKCAjwsan5BRAOEiwALzomX2OpBsRmO__kLzAsl-Ye7lQ5B8dJebnb1DSZuI0hK_3ckUT3Ar-IoxoCzCEQAvD_BwE

Well worth reading this while making a mental reservation about possible anti Israeli bias on the authors part. It is a magnificent book.

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I read that years ago. Think he updated it since. Good book alright.

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Someone told me the IRA used 2 tonnes of this stuff in Canary Wharf

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moshe fenglin ( wasnt too happy that israel offered help to the lebanese saying that that the chemical ultimately would have made its way to the israeli border - he has been dismissed thankfully
benny gantz and gabi ashkenazi offered help but as there are no diplomatic relations it will be done thru france

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250kg I heard. That would make this “bomb” 10,000 times larger.

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1,400kg and 5kg of Semtex.

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