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It is one thing to be willing to accept Israel within the 1967 borders, which many people agree to, and is not an approval of Zionism. On the other hand, the "right to exist" formulation is an opening to an expansionist narrative, where a two-state solution is an anathema. In the US and UK, we have Christian Zionists who are more ardent for Zionist expansionism than moderate Jewish people. People like the Evangelical Mike Huckabee (US Ambassador designate) even deny the existence of Palestinians. It's a continuation of the line first promoted in the late 19th Century: A land without people for a people without land. There are figures around for immigration into Israel. I would be surprised if Safarti Jewish arrivals outnumber those from Europe including Russia and the US. Another thing to consider is how many Jews were present in Palestine when Muslim armies arrived in the 7th Century and how many converted to Islam.

Thanks for the perceptive comment. I wonder how far back these bans in Phuket go? Military service in Israel has evolved from conventional warfare to controlling the Palestinian population in the West Bank. As settlements have constantly expanded since Netanyahu's first term (1996), the repression and impunity has increased. The bad behavior in Mae Hong Son may well be explained by a distrustful attitude toward the "other". As for Amish, they are peaceful people. My mother's thinking was much influenced by the neighbor, a Mennonite bishop.

It depends on the training. Teaching soldiers to respect and not maltreat civilians of the target population.

Does military training have a role in bad attitude? Is there some kind of indoctrination that makes these young men so arrogant?

Some of the Gazans could move into the settlements after the settlers have been removed from the West Bank per opinion of the ICJ last July. After they move back to Gaza, Palestinian refugees living in camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan could live in the settlement dwellings in the West Bank.

She has already been caught out in her briefing telling the world that Hamas used condoms as balloons to carry explosives to the enemy. Then Trump repeated same disinformation. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/gaza-condoms-fact-check/index.html

After reading the post mentioning the Stockholm3 test, I looked it up, and it seems quite interesting: https://www.stockholm3.com/ After having a few friends die of prostate cancer, and myself having procrastinated when my doc recommended a biopsy, I definitely believe in regular PSA testing. Some friends have done brachytherapy (radioactive seeds implanted in the prostate), but their cancer was detected early. If as good as claimed, the Stockholm3 test seems to be an excellent diagnostic alternative in conjunction with PSA testing.

Maybe it's time for Ross Perot's party to be resurected. This time people could have used a choice beyond the Green Party.

The Republicans are the planners. Democratic politics seem quite chaotic. When Democratic presidencies start out, they typically have not developed legislation ready to pass, and they waste precious months and lose momentum. Republicans take projects developed on K Street long before the election, ready to go in the first 100 days. Remember the tribulations over passing Obamacare? If they had done it before Ted Kennedy died, it would have sailed through. The speculation about 2028 candidates is pretty meaningless at this point. Worry about 2026 first.

Can this receipt (a pdf?) be gotten from the desktop version of the TM30 site? Last time at the yearly extension, the initial queue reviewer said I had to go out back to obtain an old style TM30 receipt at the TM30 office out back, as they didn't like the print out from the TM30 site (Excel-like format). Too small. AT the TM30 office they told me that with their phone app I could get the receipt as shown above. Too complicated, so I went back to the queue official, and she told me to go inside to the extension window to ask whether they would accept the TM30 receipt that I had presented, and they said yes. So no need to get the receipt as shown above. This was in November. Is there a new version - new link - for TM30 whereby you can get the receipt format shown above on a desktop -not the phone app? If so where do you click to get this receipt in pdf format?

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?