"The blindness of these moral beacons to the oppression of Palestinians by Arab states does Gazans no favours."
The F1 Ace Lewis Hamilton, whose current gal waits for him in bed with size forty-two tits and sucks like a milking machine if her excellent short film with Ray J is to be believed, is a regular on these pages for several reasons: one, his exploits at 25-foot Pipeline where he almost drowned alongside Kelly Slater, and, second, his banalities concerning climate change while driving F1s, human rights while dripping in diamonds and Gaza, while standing in Egypt.
In a post to his 44.5 million fans, Lewis is pictured at the Rafah gate, the Egyptian border with Gaza. No need to tell the historically literate here at BeachGrit that Egypt controlled Gaza – Jordan had the West Bank and East Jerusalem – from 1948 to 1967 and neither Egypt nor Jordan, Lebanon too, are real thrilled by their Palestinian brothers and sisters.
See Jordan’s Black September when King Hussein’s army crushed the PLO, killing thousands, and kicked it the hell out of Jordan. The last thing the Egyptians need is a couple mill Palestinians in the Sinai. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took power in 2013 by overthrowing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, and has crushed the Brotherhood ever since. Hamas is the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch and a refugee wave means Hamas setting up shop in Egypt. That Rafah gate ain’t opening anytime soon.
Bottom line: Every time an Arab state took in large numbers of armed Palestinians, things went badly. Jordan fought a civil war in 1970. Lebanon’s state collapsed into civil war after 1975, with the PLO a central player. Egyptian officials have watched this happen twice and don’t want to be third.
“The past three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is appalling. It’s an injustice for people to being denied their freedom, their safety and their dignity. No human being should be treated as though their life matters less,” Lewis writes.
“I saw walls stretching for miles, built to keep them in. Standing there, outside what felt like an open-air prison, all I could think about was getting in to help.
“At Rafah border, I saw food trucks lined up ready to go, but they’re regularly not allowed in or face major delays. The first driver in line that I spoke to had already been waiting over 12 hours. At the nearby logistics centre, I saw the hard work of the aid workers, but I also saw what gets rejected for crazy reasons. Sleeping bags, first aid kits, medical equipment, wheelchairs, even footballs for kids.
“Israel needs to fulfil its obligations under the ceasefire and let the aid trucks in. No excuse.
“I know so many people feel that same helplessness. That same need to do something rather than just watch. I don’t want us to get used to their suffering. I don’t want us to look away.”
Pushback online was hard.
Lewis Hamilton says he feels “HELPLESS” about Gaza.
Lewis Hamilton, worth an estimated $580 MILLION, wearing diamond earrings worth more than most people’s CARS, is standing at the EGYPTIAN BORDER, why didn’t you go to Israel Lewis?
You’re right there.LEWIS!!! TURN AROUND!!! LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!
You’re standing in EGYPT!!!
EGYPT!!! The country that built that MASSIVE, heavily fortified border barrier to keep Palestinians you’re so worried about from crossing into Egypt!!!
You’re accusing ISRAEL of GENOCIDE while standing on the Where are your demands for Egypt to open its border???
Leeewwwwis, THE WALL IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) November 12, 2026
Moral grandstanding is a powerful fashion trend. Even F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has succumbed to it, allowing himself to be driven to the Egyptian-Gazan border. He spewed a torrent of grand words about genocidal Israel and the massive walls it has built around an open-air prison. The minor problem is that he had his photo taken on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing. The massive walls and barbed wire were built by… wait for it… Egypt! To prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons and a mass exodus of Palestinians fleeing Israeli bombs. The blindness of these moral beacons to the oppression of Palestinians by Arab states, as well as by their own extremists, and above all their exploitation of Palestinian suffering for self-promotion, does Gazans no favors. It serves only those who make such pronouncements, complete with the obligatory photo of themselves at the center of the action.
Watch how Formula 1 legend Lewis Hamilton embarrassed himself with a post he published about Gaza. That’s what happens when you become a useful idiot for anti-Israel propaganda. https://t.co/YWFXZkI9Cq— יוסף חדאד – Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) November 12, 2026
Egypt has been walling off Gaza for years, and it started long before this war. It began with a steel barrier along the border in 2009 and a concrete wall in 2020, with an underground section to block tunnels. During the war, it built more. The road to the Rafah crossing is now lined with miles of concrete and the remains of Egyptian homes that were demolished to clear the area. That is the view Lewis Hamilton described to his followers.
The money matters too. Before October 7th, 2023, an Egyptian company called Hala charged Gazans a few hundred dollars to cross into Egypt. Once people were desperate to get out, the price went up to $5,000 for an adult. The Sunday Times estimated the company took in at least $88 million in about two months.Egypt has been walling off Gaza for years, and it started long before this war. It began with a steel barrier along the border in 2009 and a concrete wall in 2020, with an underground section to block tunnels. During the war, it built more. The road to the Rafah crossing is now lined with miles of concrete and the remains of Egyptian homes that were demolished to clear the area. That is the view Lewis Hamilton described to his followers.
The money matters too. Before October 7th, 2023, an Egyptian company called Hala charged Gazans a few hundred dollars to cross into Egypt. Once people were desperate to get out, the price went up to $5,000 for an adult. The Sunday Times estimated the company took in at least $88 million in about two months.
Lewis Hamilton drives for a living, burning gallons of fuel, takes private jets around the world yet talks about climate change. He comments on wealth inequality yet he is worth more than £400 million and lives in Monaco. Here is pictured visiting the border of Gaza for some more performative activism. If recent events weren’t enough of a reminder, so many celebrities who do these sort of virtue signalling actions, are morally bankrupt people hiding behind the fact they are just narcissistic sociopaths. In a world of “be kind” , it’s more important to be good.
And so on.
Important question to those who dwell beneath the cover of the line, do you think Lewis Hamilton’s historical denseness matters in this epoch of “feels” and “my truths” or are you, like some Ayn Rand acolyate, a stickler for facts and just the facts etc?
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Live thread for Leo Fio, ripping at the ISA games in El Sal? Just caught a wave and it looks good.
Kim is a…I mean will be a Lawyer if she ever passes the bar. Lewis sets his bar low and is a custodian for peace. They are a power couple.
So you’re saying she’ll never be a lawyer
She’s the next Kamala Harris . Blowing her way into the congress. That’s a lot of nard gargling.
Hey. Is your username a play on some famous name? I saw something the other day and it reminded me of your username. I hadn’t heard it before.
edit: I remember it now. Are you the writer, BDS from BD?
also , Kendall now dating an Australian guy , so that entire continent is pretty much fucked/cursed/etc
Patti Zhou’s backside full rotations are insane.
Derek, your geopolitical analysis has the depth of a puddle. Claiming Arab countries don’t want Palestinians because they hate them is a completely dishonest, room-temperature-IQ take.
Displacement isn’t hospitality, it’s ethnic cleansing. Neither Egypt nor Jordan is going to open the floodgates to facilitate the permanent removal of Palestinians from their own land. The moment they take in millions of refugees, Israel never lets them back in, just like in 1948 and 1967.
Refusing to play logistics coordinator for forced displacement isn’t anti-Palestinian, it’s refusing to clear the land for the people actually creating the refugees in the first place.
Conflating autocratic regimes with millions of actual people is completely brain-dead. El-Sisi’s paranoid crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood to secure his own dictatorship say zero about how actual Egyptians view Palestinians. And bringing up Black September is just lazy historical projection. A 1970 political power struggle between a monarchy and PLO leadership in a specific Cold War context isn’t proof that Arabs hate Palestinians.
Stop dressing up state security paranoia and the geopolitics of ethnic cleansing as Arab hypocrisy just so you can dodge who is actually bombing them into refugees in the first place. Absolute racist, low-tier garbage post. Please go back to participating in circle jerks with real estate agents.
Al Jazeera English has an excellent special program on tv now that explains how the American Petroleum Institute was able to fool a tiny percentage out f people into doubting climate change.
It’s called The Campaign against the climate. Oil companies spreading their greasy fingers around the scientific community to desperate scientists.
very interesting. One researcher did a meta analysis of 930 papers that mentioned “global climate change” and then started receiving death threats when she published. No mention if some of those emails came from the east coast of oz.
her (Naomi oreskes)paper was called The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and she couldn’t understand where the death threats were coming from until she got a hold of the API’s strategy paper. She then wrote The Merchants of Doubt.
Which is more likely?
a) BG is 50% funded by AIPAC
or
b) Gila is a member of the Cato Institute
“Doubt is our product” – the tobacco industry.
If DR ain’t gettin some of that AIPAC cheese I’m going to be highly disappointed.
:)
“Hey guys, let’s commit to a deindustrialisation program that will commit billions of people to poverty, famine and death. Don’t let any blasphemers introduce doubt into your thinking! Run towards the rapture of the Climate Catastrophe prevention crusade! “
You understand that to practice empirical science is to engage doubt, don’t you? I guess you do not.
Just finished reading through the latest comments and wow I’m fucking frothing to hear Negatron might be setting up his own BG. May I suggest Soft Sand or Old Girls Blouse as possible names?
Articles could include the latest goings on of “Surfline Girl” or how it feels so much better to be “clapped off a wave” and safety tutorials like why it is a must why every kook should wear safety boots while surfing over sharp coral reefs.First big article will be an interview with Tyler saying how much being a lesbian and having heavy periods ruined her life
I imagine he’s going for the full on kook cunt clan below The Inertia surf intelligence and can personally see it being a huge “success”. Just to say ex mod for someone who says I spend my days thinking of you you spend a fuckload of time on here talking about me, my love life and so on.
I guess being a retired dunny cleaner from a frozen, backwater is as depressing as I’ve always thought it was. Downvotes are the new upvotes and so on so lets go those fingers busy cunts haha yeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
I am not sure you understand but you are the softest misogynist here….your stories are soooo soft and lame….with the tinge of ocker/bogan and a huge dose of me me me…..as I said in another post…it’s about time I contaccted LSD to get your details….that’s is it’s real you get your boards off him?
For a person who shows little or no morals…you sure fancy yourself as someone who has put himself up on a pedestal and judging others because they have morals……your life seems to revolve around your cock/hookers/misogony/soft surf stories from the soft coast……pretty shallow up your way!
What’s the dimensions on the Barton Lynch guys “Sunset Gun” he loves so much?
Didn’t hear the “magic word”…
was in traffic court years ago and heard an old grizzled lawyer say to the judge, ‘your honor, a necessary witness has failed to appear — a ‘Mr Green’ ‘ , ha ha
Por Favor señor Brutus.. Large Wilderness, Hanalei, and dream trip to Aileen’s. Was out on a 7’0 Padillac at larger plus last year and didn’t have enough board. 10’0 Brewer and 9’0 Tiau past two times Kaui. Also 7’6″ Frierson one session liked the fact I could mid face duck dive through bigger sets and it was a thruster loose but only had few waves on it..
Last time I traveled with a 9’0 I hated lugging around. Went to a three board quiver 6’4, 7’0, and 7’2..
Thinking 7’8-8’6″?? Saw Barton plug his sunset gun.. Love to know the specifics.One of the draw backs to bigger boards is turning back into the wave power. The ball of your front foot lifts and heel is all that remains to control. You can see RCJ front foot behave in recent board reviews. Getting back over that heel when extended is what I’m trying to eliminate.
Hey mate… Come sit on me couch. We can talk it out. I will get Brutus and Negs on da phone. I am having a Friday the 13th sale so the $150 for the hour will be in Koala bucks not Freedom bucks.
Hahaha. Negative Nancy has had a heap to say about me lately Bond so just giving him a little rev up back. Dear old Brutus just seems completely transfixed by my charm and charisma hahaha
What the fuck ever Dezster.
How come you haven’t reported on Byron icon Hollywood Thor actor Chris Hemsworth having his house burgled at 2am (with reportedly 3 cars taken) whilst his wife slept.
No reports on where Hemsworth and his son’s were at the time, though presumably on a surf trip.
Maybe their nearly adjacent neighbour, surf adjacent writer, and successful adjacent school bus driver LingTim (aka Shear Stephen) knows more about the areas most awful home invasion of late…
Is “Shear Stephen” a wordplay on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book?
Louie should lead by example…donate his fortunes to the Gazans, move to Gaza, pick up arms and become a freedom fighter for Hamas. maybe KK’s 42 look better in a burkha.
Other than that…STFU Hambone
BTW- Muzzie Bro Hood just wins seat in the U.S. Senate. Stupid Seppos
Neat attempt at deflection from Israel’s evil by Dez, part time genocide enabler and full time shark hater amongst other red neck cause celebre’s. Yes Egypt is duplicitous to say the least but that doesn’t distract from Israel’s blatant blocking of aid.
On the plus side, it’s the first time Dez admits, if indirectly, that Israel is blocking vital aid going into Gaza.
Progress I think.
Of course it would have been a bit more “stickler” and “facts” to actually mention that Israel took control of the crossing on the Gaza side. Maybe he didn’t want to let go of all his “feels” all at once.
…
Trying to imagine what it must be like to pose for a photo at the border like for likes on insta in the name of suffering Palestinians.
“OK, now get a photo of me looking back at the gate…<click> OK, how was that one? Let me see… No that’s not good. Let’s do another with me holding my arms different….,<click>OK, let’s see that one….”
yeah, good on ya Derek.
All the retards on here carrying on about Huang’s infidelity like it wasn’t just another zio takeover like TikTok.
Just some fun schadenfreude, lighten up, Francis.
Look into what I’m saying. The whole “ Chinese honeypot “ perfume to mask the stink emanating from the shit which is actually subverting your country. It’s not China, mate.
Tiktoks a pedophile app
Soba as you’re stuck at home recuperating I thought it would be a perfect time for your next Strayan speaking lesson and you have good old Barrelled to thank for this one.
So down here when a bloke says another bloke is being a big girls blouse they’re implying they are carrying on in an overly sensible and feminine manner. Basically its the polite way of saying they’re being a soft cunt.
BG adjacent examples would be a Strayan saying “Look at that soft sheep shagger over there wearing booties in Indo the big girls blouse.” Or “Hey Sofa don’t listen to all the sensible advice from all the big girls blouses on here and just smash all those painkillers with heaps of piss and she’ll be right mate”
The second one is of course a joke and please follow the doctors advice to the letter. When I ruptured the ACL in me knee I did everything they said and it still took nearly year for me to start trusting it again when I was surfing
Here is a quick funny story about me dear old dad to keep your spirits up. So I’ve gone up to see him in hozzy after hes had a knee replacement and the nurse walks in and goes “hey Mr Strayan Cucumber here is the old knee bone they took out.” Me old fella goes “Ahhh wow look at that ay, any chance I can take it home for me dog cuz he’ll fucking love it.” Hahaha Heal up quick mate
Swapping out piss for painkillers is no joke.
Ive known too many crew who got hooked on painkillers after surgery. The addiction was more devastating than the surgery.
On the other hand there’s the toothless brickie’s labourer I knew who, when offered prescription for painkillers upon breaking his back, refused and told the Doc he’d just treat any pain with a few nips of Stones Green Ginger Wine. People laughed but old mate labourer was smarter than the pack.
I have packets of “Slow Release” and “Instant Release” Opioids available, left over from my Mum’s palliative care bullshit before she died. She Refused them also…
FUCK THAT SHIT
Life is not meant to be NUMBED FFS
Fucking hell mate I’m just at home enjoying some Friday knock off beers after a long week and surely every cunt can see I’m just messing around? Fucking hell some cunts on here are getting sooooo uptight I may head over to The Inertia and start commenting over there.
Uptight?
I just made a point about painkillers. Hardly dramatic.
Maybe I need to employ more emojis? 🤡🍆🫄🏿💩
Mate please don’t start using those emoji thingies cuz its basically like announcing to the world you’re a fucking lost cause.
Right let’s go through those cartoon pictures and break em down. A clown I guess is you think I’m funny? An aubergine I just don’t have a clue about? A brown man with a beer gut is the same and wouldn’t have a fucking clue. Then finally a perfectly coiled dump which I’m guessing is you saying I have very good gut health, which I actually do.
When I combine those symbols I still don’t have a fucking Scooby Doo what you’re trying to say so wouldn’t it be easier and more accurate with actual words?
I’m not saying anything. They’re just the first four emojis in my list.
The clown is when something or someone is being clownish.
The eggplant is something I send to my missus.
The pregnant black dude signifies peak ridiculousness.
The shit is just shit. I usually couple it with the blowfly emoji.
None are in reference to yourself or our discussion. They’re meaningless in this context. I’m not actually an emoji guy. Like anything you employ ironically, it usually gets under your skin and you find yourself using it as it’s intended.
Like saying Lol. In itself, gay AF but use it as a piss take often enough and next minute….
You’d want to hit yourself in the head with a mash hammer before engaging with Queenslanders.
Hahahaha If you’re talking about me I ain’t no fucking Gaylander cunt and proudly from NSW haha
You drink xxxx and surf the wanka bank. And drink Queensland water. You’re a Queenslander.
Hahahahaha I do none of those things so go learn to drive properly and get a dog up ya cunt haha
I get Indian ubers. They’re everywhere down here
One time I said “Gracias” to an Indian? cab driver…#awkward
How many steps a day have you made checking your letterbox… Such a WASTE of TIME.
I bet you don’t even know what time of day it is, and why you have now set up camp by your letterbox,after so many days.
The days led to weeks, then extruded to months.
Running the Genset, and the 4K cameras by the Mailbox, the laptop that was always “WATCHING”, became a burden for DEEKS
WATCH OUT
If I ever get it I’ll be able to get it appraised on antiques road show.
I would watch a whole episode of that HAHAHAH
After the wholesome, seppo thread yesty why has this mainly Strayan one turned so vile and disgusting with insults being thrown everywhere. Have some fucking decorum you fucking cucumbers
Shut the fuck Up Strayan “CornBread” (What ever the fuck that is)
We don’t have “Corn Bread” in Australia.
We only have the NORMAL Bread…
Na you fuck up cucumber and what kind of name is I am a crayfish popsicle anyway dickhead? Why can’t you choose something more surfy like Barrelled, Bog rail cutback or Sean Connery anyway ya fucking idiot?
If you must know, I was just making up some random, bullshit name and I was watching The Fifth Element and was up to that bit.
Honestly didn’t think I’d last here for long
please do us a favor and go over to anywhere but here!
Might as well throw non a yellow beanie for good measure..
I cracked my back on a fall that landed me ass first between an uncovered 2×12 floor joist system. Laid in bed for two days sucked down couple muscle relaxers was back on the job day four. Ate pain like candy after that..
The constipation alone ain’t worth it.
Didn’t realise the Gaza story was about you?
ah but’s all about Soft Cunt !!!
another trip into the immoral world of a soft misogynist…….thankfully a minority , and not Australian
On the contrary – Strayan Cucumber is the most stereotypical Australian here.
Checks ALL the boxes – uneducated, uses foul language, AFL fan, manual labourer, sense of humour, constantly drunk, brutally misogynistic, homophobic and loyal to mates above all other considerations.
That’s 100% Australian, mate.
lol I tried the same thing with my hip… which apparently, is a “HIP”A violation.
That story about your dad explains a few things about you! Thanks for the explanation about “big girl’s blouse.” I had inferred as much but nice to have confirmation. I am following doctor’s orders which means resting and humiliatingly using a walker to get around. I hope I can ditch that soon.
don’t wanna fuck around with facts too much , but Kim k’s ancestors are well known for just barely escaping the Armenian genocide , which if recall correctly was perpetrated by … ahhh never mind , probably has nothing to do with any of this
Solid veiled commentary Rocks! Now on a separate note, this is a big week as Gram Parsons will be enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. So I took the oldest Madeoff boy to The Trubadour for Tribute night last night
Epic
John Wayne on the calendar again next week , then CO for thanksgiving , although lot of work not much play these days , gotta ring the bell , etc
You should ignore the water temps next week as you might be tempted to take take long lunch breaks. I was was slightly warm in my 2mm shortie on Tuesday
An Ayn Rand acolyte can’t hear the truth without crying about Anti-semitism regarding half of it.
I think the Bigger Man, is the one that steps down
Both end up walking away, and can discuss sensibly later…
VS
BOTH walk away with “Fucked up FACES”
Only to spit in RAGE!
Imagine if you ever manage to join two LEGO’s together
You MAKE A PEACE
JOIN TOGETHER
OR NUKES like Beefy said ahahhaha
Nope. That’s not my point. Someone comes at you, you give better than you get and then reassess the relationship after the event.
Im saying that every inbred nation in the Middle East needs to keep their Hatfield / McCoy shit and their feuding selves back in their shithole countries. The world doesn’t want anything to do with it.
You do t walk through life taking shit from fuckwits. Australia doesn’t need or want any of their shit and we are done being inveigled into it by zios.
Heres the guide to life no one tells you about:
https://youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM?si=Y18J4NLpGqd5wpra
Learn it, live it. Someone hits you, hit back harder then extend your hand in peace. Rules to live by.
Here’s the Essential Viewing linked in the above post:
I get it, but are you not even thankful, that your Dad’s sprog made it, and evolved into YOU!
Guess what.
EVERYONE FEELS THE SAME WAY!
ENJOY LIFE DUDE
Spiders lived for Hundreds of Millions of Years before dinosaurs even existed, yet such a tiny thing can invoke SO MUCH FEAR
BRAVO!!!! What the fuck Derek? Why would you bring facts and reality to a generation that has been schooled in such a delusional way that your facts and figures will never be believed? Oh, and of course you had me at:
“size forty-two tits and sucks like a milking machine”
Lewis Hamilton is clearly uneducated – does he know Hamas invaded the State of Israel on 7 October 2023, killing over 1200 people, many of them not Jewish nor Israeli citizens?
He clearly doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “genocide” – as “genocide” is to kill based on ethnicity or genetics, like what the Nazis did to the Jewish people or the Muslim Turks did to the Armenian Christians in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
What the State of Israel is doing in Gaza is waging war on a terrorist organisation that has the eradication of the State of Israel as part of its founding charter.
It’s a war, not a genocide.
But he drive car fast
Listen to him
He can feed a whole village with his right ear diamond earrings, and still have the other side for a new Bentley
He said he doesn’t like to buy used Vehicles, as the Models are slow, full of sloppy remains, broken down and severely out of Warranty.
When a man says “Take my Word”
It probably means something else…
And of course, Lewis bangs a human trampoline that’s been passed around like a joint at a hippy party. Our Hippy of course
I am sure she loves him
Be happy for them
If you consider swallowing his love as love, let’s go with it. So I will be happy for them! I’m a fan of Lewis the racer but not so much Lewis the human.
The entitled cunt can drive a fuckn car.
He is also a bit of a “Shit Cunt” Like Kelly Slater
If they don’t do it, who will?
Honest Question?
The Dreams of a “Nobody” are over
It’s not that hard to be a calculated reckless driver…me thinks.
Agreed! I learned a long time ago to NEVER idolize artists or athletes as they’ll likely disappoint you sooner than later.
Separate the Elite Driver, from the absolute Cockhead Wanker
People are able to do two things at once man…
I’m $ure $he doe$…
“ We dindu nuffin “ *
You are a loose cannon Blowie, and you swim up river.
Keep swimming mate
I love it
Of course he knows what Hamas did but like the rest of the world he also knows that Israel’s response goes far beyond the right to defend themselves. And its clearly you who does not understand the meaning of the word genocide, especially since the vast majority of genocide scholars, the UN and the current Nobel peace prize winner (herself an expert in international crimes against humanity) have all declared it a genocide. And the ICC will undoubtably rule the same when the current case against Israel concludes. I’ve already had to school you about the Palestinian state and now this. So stop trying to pretend you’re an expert and rather focus on gathering actual facts to substantiate your boring red neck tropes.