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Maybe that keyboard general is alluding to using the nuclear arsenal. Seems like the only way to carry out his strategy.

Are you aware of the situation on the West Bank? The settlers with help from IDF are very active in sthnic cleansing by chasing Palestinians from small villages. The Zionist religious fanatics a/k/a settlers are an obstacle to a two-state solution.

It's sad that you think that Palestinians are the enemy. They can't express sympathy for carpet-bombed people? Hamas is another matter.

Iran helped to mitigate the unintended consequences of the agricultural workers caught up in the Hamas attack. These workers seem to have been overlooked in the main negotiations, so it's good that Iran was able to help.

They released two Americans a while ago. They have stated that soldiers' release will require release of all Palestinan prisoners. There are many thousands when counting all those arrested without charge, which can mean detention for 20 years without court review. Some are pretty young children. People are being arrested on West Bank for posting on social media in support of Gazans under siege. What happened to free speech?

They are really tasty with that pandanus (bai toey) flavored gloop, especially when still warm.

Someone noted that it was approved in June/July. In CM Mediclinic got it first, but Ram, etc, soon after apparently.

An example is home demolitions, either as collective punishment or for building without that unobtainable permit.

Where have you been? It happened 100 years ago.

The 'River to the Sea' process that is really going on is the active realization of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank and now Gaza. This is a long-standing project of the ultra Orthodox who now keep Netanyahu in power.

Except during Covid, the air pollution from burning from around mid-February for several months has been a problem for people in the North. The smoke is not only local, but also coming from Burma and Laos. If you are planning on cycling for exercise, it might be better to use that interval for visits elsewhere. Ironically, I live in the center and find the pollution nowhere near as bad as pollution showing on the map for areas where well-to-do foreigners live, such as Mae Rim, north of Chiang Mai. Before Covid, that was spikes up to 230 where I live vs 500 in Mae Rim. Normally, such as now, in our open kitchen the reading is 4. In the city, you could stay in the Nimman area where there are many better restaurants, upscale shopping, and a lot of nighttime activity. Inside the moat, not far from Wat Phra Singh is the Rachamankha Hotel, which has good traditional food plus excellent design a cut above the rest. https://www.rachamankha.com/?page=about_rachamankha_architecture . I am not assuming that you are looking for a cheap place to retire as others on this forum seem to think. Thai food in Boston is absolutely dreadful, though my Thai-American doc at Brigham recommended their temple if I wanted to eat Thai.

Maybe Netanyahu and his fellow scoundrels will get their chance to defend themselves - in the Hague!

Biden's numbers are hardly relevant. Many Democrats don't want him to run again, thus his low numbers. As for second poll, for now there's not much choice, but that could change if the prospect of a viable Palestinian state emerged. That would require a new Israeli government capable of reassessing the national interest, plus a plan to remove all problematic settlements from the West Bank and otherwise make West Bank and Gaza a place where Palestinians can live unmolested.

It helps but doesn't prevent transmission for certain.

Getting Marwan Barghouti out of an Israeli prison is just a small detail compared to what else must be done to have a viable Palestinian state. Barghouti has not yet been in prison as long as Mandela was.

Admittedly, in my case the concern goes farther than the gastro-intestinal tract. Maybe not the case for the OP.

That's so long ago I don't remember that - 1990?

Capsule camera: Is there another way to investigate the small intestine? I am thinking of having a Gallium 68 PET scan for tumors in the abdomen (including intestines). Would not deal with absorption issue for OP, though.

Once fake news. propaganda, is out there it gets repeated by credible people. Remember the beheaded babies cited by Biden?

Thank you for mentioning the settlers. The pogroms which they visit on the indigenous people cause great outrage in Gaza, too, I suppose. These attacks are done with impunity in the presence of IDF. As for the celebration with sweets, it's like the prisoners celebrating a jailbreak. Had they already seen the horrific videos? I remember reading of a call from a Hamas killer to his parents in Gaza, reported in a recent Israeli government video. When the son said how he was a hero for killing a number of people and asked his dad for approval, dad told him to come home. Parents sounded unhappy with him.

To really understand why the US has vetoed so many Security Council resolutions, you have to know about this: Sorry it's a long read, around 500 pages. Most people only know about AIPAC, Anti-defamation League - tip of the iceberg. Unless a lot of people know about this, how the US Congress is cowed, it will be very difficult for there to be peace in the Middle East.

The "dual use" excuse is really a pretext for ethnic cleansing. Putinesque.

As of last night it seems that all cell communication in Gaza has been cut, internet, too, so that then people outside Gaza can no longer see the massacre in real time. Al Jazeera was using satellite to send out news.

And Marie-Antionette said "Let them eat cake" (if they have no bread).

The supporters of Israel pose questions such as which form of death is more humane just to confuse the readers with irrelevancies, while denouncing statements of objection as "nonsense". Civilian death by whatever means is just part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.