Dubai's opulent, multimillion-pound New Year's Eve celebrations have been cancelled due to the Gaza violence, leaving hordes of expatriates hastily making alternative plans.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of the Gulf state, called off festivities late last night.

He said "all public New Year’s celebrations" should be stopped "in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are currently enduring death, suffering and destruction in Gaza"....

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Now let's see..."solidarity with the Palestinian people..." who are trying to wipe Israel off the map...who have fired over 3000 rockets into Israel this year...all the while Israel restrains herself...

And...we almost gave the operations of our ports to this bunch?

Now what stupid is...is what stupid does...

We narrowly escaped the category...