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Neither are the West Bankers citizens of Israel. That is why Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have determined that Israel is an Apartheid state. They also found practices in Israel proper against the Arab Israeli population that rate as Apartheid.

At least Israel should obey the opinion of the ICJ and leave the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as what's left of Gaza.

Netanyahu figures that Trump will give him more favors, like the last time when he recognized a unified Jerusalem as the israeli capital. So not giving success to Biden helped Trump get elected. (Of course Harris helped herself lose as well). If not for his 100% backing of the war, Biden could have cut off arms & cash supplies long ago to secure a ceasefire, so the 7-8 months (as you say) were just time where 10000 more Palestinians died.

So if and when Palestinians are allowed to have elections, Hamas may not be on the ballot as such, but there will probably be a conservative party that will appeal to people who previously voted for Hamas in 2006.

Yes, desperate for some legacy in foreign affairs. His short speech on the ceasefire was so slurred that at times it was difficult to understand.

Just following orders - typical excuse for those accused of war crimes.

I looked it up on the USPS rate schedule. USPS has priority express international parcel service. The closest eqivalent to EMS. We were talking about the rate from US to Thailand, I thought.

If not wind turbines, what kind of turbine are you talking about?

The counterargument is that students are potential victims of doxxing if their faces can be researched in social media. They can be shut out of jobs in finance and other business fields. This "fear" of masked students is a pretext, IMO.

Democratic presidents were in charge when the Hegseth "miracles" took place (except 2017): 1917 - Wilson, 1948 - Truman, 1967 - Johnson. To that I would add 1979 - Carter (an Evangelical), who deleted text from the treaty between Israel and Egypt which referred to the principle of non-acquisition of territory by force, so that Israel's taking of territory from Egypt, Syria, and the then Jordan West Bank would have been acknowledged as contrary to international law; and 2000 - Clinton, who tried to force Arafat to accept a "Swiss cheese" statelet without sovereignty. We can now see how things are going for the Palestinians in the West Bank - economic strangulation and creeping annexation. It's no wonder that some Muslim voters prefer Republicans, and, after the Biden performance, even Trump despite the record of his previous time as president.

Drunk on the job is not a good example to set to the Boy Scouts, nor is violence against women.

Hegseth advocated the construction of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during Trump 1.0. He said that 1917 was a miracle, 1948 was a miracle, 1967 was a miracle, 2017 was a miracle. Video available here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-us-defence-secretary-called-building-third-temple-jerusalem 2017: the Balfour Declaration, the UK promise for a Jewish state in Palestine; 1948: creation of Israel 1967: the war that seized East Jerusalem 2017: the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Third Temple is a goal of the extreme right in Israel and far right Evangelicals in the US who see it as part of the coming of the Messiah heralding the end of the world.

Such as Thais in LA. IS Thaitown far from the flames?

There are hundreds of designs underway, but only two are under construction in CHina and Argentina (125 and 30 megawatts). https://aris.iaea.org/publications/SMR_catalogue_2024.pdf At a cost of around USD4mn for a 3 megawatt wind turbine, this would require 42 wind turbines at a cost of around USD168mn to equal the power generated by the Chinese SMR cited above. Time will tell whether these small reactors cost that much. The concept is assembling them in a factory and installing them onsite in a concrete shell (see designs in linked publication). Low maintenance compared to turbines.

My US card was recently compromised. I have used it for some recurring charges in the US, but here only in ATMs. So I checked whether there was any way my card details could have been captured here. I use Bitdefender since last year when Kaspersky was outlawed in the US. I have learned that there are vulnerabilities, nonetheless. 1) Using older wireless devices such as keyboards and mice with Bluetooth, the transmissions are not encrypted, so someone fairly close by can intercept the data. Some current wireless devices, from Logitech for example. They use their own Logi Bolt dongle to send encrypted signals. Google "Mousejack". 2) Another danger is through a fake CAPTCHA popup where you click to confirm that you are a human. There is not the usual display of a photo divided in 9 sections where you have to identify a specified item appearing in certain sections. This is called Lumma Stealer. https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2024/10/20/unmasking-lumma-stealer-analyzing-deceptive-tactics-with-fake-captcha Antivirus programs including Bitdefender cannot detect this activity. One solution is using virtual or burner cards as much as possible. Also, avoid storing sensitive data such as passwords in unencrypted files on your computer. Aside from concealed cameras at ATMs, I wonder whether there is any way that bank employees or the authorities can intercept the transmission of chip card details and what details are in the transmission. Does anyone here know?