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I just saw Peter Eliasberg, Chief Counsel of the ACLU (Southern CA), on the BBC concerning the circumstances around the university decision to shut down the UCLA protest. He remarked that police were present and did nothing when a group of, in his words, thugs violently attacked the protest site. He said that the university could not use that violence as a pretext to declare the protest unlawful, because there is a legal concept called heckler's veto. "A heckler's veto is a situation in which a party who disagrees with a speaker's message is able to unilaterally trigger events that result in the speaker being silenced." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto Interestingly, the ACLU of Michigan in a friend-of-the-court brief aided a successful appeal of the case of a group of evangelicals who staged an obnoxious march in Dearborn during the 2012 Arab International Festival and whom the police ordered to cease and desist due to their "incitement". https://www.aclumich.org/en/cases/hecklers-veto

For some years many have been saying that the two-state solution is dead. Certainly the Oslo agreement has been so abused by Israeli that it is dead. It is also clear that Israelis will not voluntarily change their ways, so a one-state solution cannot happen before the Greater Israel plan is achieved, namely the removal of masses of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank and the indefinite continuation of Apartheid. Consequently, now there is a lot of talk again about the two-state solution, and this will be accepted by the Palestinians if it achieves the clearing of most of the 750,000 illiegal settlers from the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israelis will have to go through a radical change in mindset. Reputation is important, and Israeli is rapidly gaining pariah status in the eyes of the world. Israelis will need to control the extremist elements in their society to prevent sabotage of the peace, as happened with the mass murder in the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1995 and the assassination of Rabin. For the world, two-states is the only option beyond calamity.

The pro-Palestine camp at UCLA didn't seem to have guns when they were violently assaulted by masked thugs, not student age. Governor Newsom complained that it took too long for the police to respond. Now the University is calling for protest to end because of violence, that caused by Zionist outsiders. Who needs protection? Maybe the Jewish students who are protesting against the Israeli government.

Maybe the White House hopes that after the students (hopefully) go home for the summer that things will calm down, except for the Democratic Convention in, where else?, Chicago. Remember 1968? While planners may have a holding pen for demonstrators out of sight of the convention hall, the demonstrations will be all over social media expressing their disdain for Biden.

That's what Israel would have us believe.

Israel said that they were going to ban al-Jazeera. The J Post diatribe against Qatar is predicated on a person who doesn't represent Qatar. Would anyone take this seriously? Yes, the J Post for its own motivations.

This is in response to my comment: "The encampments are teach-ins so that those who are appalled by the Gaza War can learn the historical background, etc." Speaking of historical revisionism, the whole Zionist trope was "A land without people for a people without land." In fact, the people of Palestine were there for millennia. A significant point is that the British and French divided up this part of the Middle East, and that the British made promises to the Arabs on site and to Jews in the UK regarding the destiny of Palestine. During the 30s a certain Christian Zionist in the Palestine administration helped train Jewish militias that later did ethnic cleansing when the British left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orde_Wingate

This you said in response to @pegman: " You can read numerous reports about Apartheid in Israel here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/search/apartheid in israel/ Attached is Amnesty's 277 page report (pdf) can be accessed at this link: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/5141/2022/en/ Human Rights Watch also has a report: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

DO you have a link regarding the ethnic cleansing claim?

Middle East Eye does not seem to be a blog. Here is the media bias / fact check evaluation: HIGH CREDIBILITY. Left-center bias. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/middle-east-eye/ People "calling for" annihilation is incitement, and is part of the genocide investigation at the ICJ. So in this case, it's not Netanyahu, Pres Herzog, Galland, Ben Gvir, or Smotrich. It's the deputy mayor of Jerusalem. It just shows that incitement is also occurring at lower levels of the bureaucracy. That can strengthen the case at the ICJ.

Netanyahu needs the war to continue, and he seems willing to cross Biden's red lines to do so.

The Republicans are in the thrall of (if not themselves) Christians Zionists who are less interested in human rights or the Ten Commandments than seeing that Israel totally occupies historic Palestine so that the Revelations prophesy can be realized and they can go to their Heaven while the rest, including Jews, burn. Look up CUFI in Google. It is true that Biden and others seem to think that Israel's interests are synonomous with US interests. Some day soon I hope that many Israelis will realize that Fortress Zion is not viable in the long run, and that they should follow the promise of their Declaration of Independence and have a constitution granting equal rights to all. Maybe then future US administrations can treat Israel like any other democratic nation. The US political system with a revolving door between pro-israel think tanks and staff positions in Congress and in the White House has led to policy capture. This explains notable internal protests in the Administration and resignations from State & Defense over the Administration's handling of the Gaza War.

The encampments are teach-ins so that those who are appalled by the Gaza War can learn the historical background, etc.

It's only the encampment that started April 17th after Minouche's pitiful performance before Congress. Before that they were doing standing protests.

It's sad to hear you claim that this is a matter of Israel not being allowed to exist. That's quite a polar view. JVP has been advocating the one state solution with equal rights for all. That means the end of apartheid. The Israel Declaration of Independence said: "WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel". THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations."

It's only the encampment that started April 17th after Minouche's pitiful performance before Congress. Before that they were doing standing protests. The encampments are teach-ins so that those who are appalled by the Gaza War can learn the historical background, etc.

It's only the encampment that started April 17th after Minouche's pitiful performance before Congress. Before that they were doing standing protests. The encampments are teach-ins so that those who are appalled by the Gaza War can learn the historical background, etc.

It's only the encampment that started April 17th after Minouche's pitiful performance before Congress. Before that they were doing standing protests.

Regarding original post, if the agent is actually filing a TM30, the agent must have a "captive" landlord purporting to be housing the TM30 applicant. The client should require a receipt of notification which will show the fake address where applicant is registered, since the online notification form shows the address where the applicant is purportedly staying. Maybe they could then file another TM form to move to where they really live and dump the agent??? Another possibility would be for the person in question to first stay at a hotal when coming back to the country, then sign up to do a TM30 and file when getting to their real home in Thailand. Perhaps @DrJack54 could comment on this.

It's good to remember that all three Abrahamic religions can birth terrorists, even state terrorism. It would make sense for these religions to deal with extremism internally.

I wonder about this. The Roman Empire didn't go Christian until around the 4th Century, then Islam arrived in the 7th. Afterwards some areas were retaken by Crusaders periodically, so how does it make sense that from the 16th Century the Ottoman Empire played a role in converting Palestinians to Islam. Those who were going to convert had already done so from the 7th Century on. Additional conversions from Christianity probably took place over the centuries from intermarriage.

Some 47 professors of the Columbia Law School sent a letter to Columbia president Shafik pointing out that the actions directed by her against those students violated the rule of law guaranteeing free speech. Shafik was previously dean of the Law School. I guess that Biden et al hope that when the semester is over in a month or less, the students will go home and not make any trouble at the Democratic Convention!

The question was more like whether they supported the war, not whether they were in favor of genocide. Anyway, unless Israelis listened to the proceedings of the ICJ, they may not see the big picture.

Actually, in the IDF more initiative is allowed to lower ranks than in other armies.

Please show a link that offers some evidence of "October 7. Teenage girls gang raped beside the mutilated corpses of their murdered boyfriends." or any of the rest of your allegations.