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By those wanton killings of civilians, I wonder whether Hamas wanted to provoke Netanyahu into an excessive response that in the end would alienate world opinion. This is not unlike 9/11 in intensity. 9/11 caused America to unjustly attack Iraq in 2003 which in the end cost the US trillions and created instability in the Middle East, not to mention the forever war in Afghanistan which finally reaffirmed the notion that foreigners should not take on Afghans. Hamas chose to strike when a far right government is trying to do an end run on the Palestinians by an Abraham Accord with Saudi Arabia, the country that made the most serious proposal for a two-state solution in 2002. At the time US government policy was under the influence of neocons, so their proposal was ignored. The question now is whether this ends up going full circle, though it's hard to imagine turning back the clock when settlements have hugely expanded in the interim. Today being Friday, what will be the response in mosques around the world? Will the Palestinian issue come off the back burner?

Their attack plan was so brilliant, yet this massacre of civilians threw away any sympathy they could have gained. How pathetic. ISIS was/is something else - not only all the killing, but intentional destruction of Iraq's and Syria's cultural heritage.

Pfizer stock price is down because the bonanza of vaccine sales is over, not due to being sued. They are facing various patent expirations so until they can get more acquisitions done, the price will be depressed.

It's an interesting solution, especially since Palestinians comprise around 70% of Jordan's population anyway. They fled there after the 67 war. The original Jordanians are culturally distinct from Palestinians.

Extrajudicial execution of journalists is another IDF practice. Shireen Abu Akleh RIP.

Someplace I have a study by William Quandt of the 2000 Camp David negociations. On the bottom line the offer to Arafat was a Swiss cheese state, i.e. bantustans between the settlements, significant areas continuing under Israeli control. Clinton promised Arafat not to blame him for the talks failure, then reneged on his promise.

The Second Temple was demolished by the Romans in 70AD, after an uprising. The birthplace of Judaism is somewhere around the Graden of Eden, I guess.

There were more before a bunch moved to settlements on the West Bank.

Most Palestinians no doubt realize that Israel is here to stay. The question is whether they will have some justice whether by a viable independent state or by the end of apartheid in an Israel encompassing the West Bank and Gaza. Ironically all the turmoil this year over changes in the "Basic Law" has totally ignored the plight of Arab citizens of Israel, not to mention Palestinians in the West Bank beset by settlers. It was a tragic mistake when Israel's founders chose not to create a constitution and to give control of fundamental civil matters over to Orthodox authorities. Now everyone is paying the price.

It would make sense for authorities to give prompt approuval to the recent vaccines which give better protection from infection. Maybe what could be gained from the bivalent vaccine is to reduce the chance of hosptalization. A new vaccine is coming in a few months (in the US) for the currently circulating variants.

One thing that unites conservative Muslims, Shia or Sunni, is the increasing settler & extreme Orthodox encroachment on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem. This link explains the formation of the relationship between Hezbollah and Hamas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hamas

From this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hamas With its takeover of Gaza after the 1967 war with Egypt, Israel hunted down secular Palestinian Liberation Organization factions, but dropped the previous Egyptian rulers' harsh restrictions against Islamic activists.[16] In fact, Israel for many years tolerated and at times encouraged Islamic activists and groups as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the PLO and its dominant faction, Fatah.[16][17] The sources [16][17] are a 2009 article in the Wall Street Journal and a 2006 book by Matthew Levitt, forward by Dennis Ross, so should be reliable information.

If you don't have foreign income, then you might have to reattribute US income to foreign source. That involves another form in addtion to IRS form 1116 (foreign tax credit) because you would be invoking provisions of the US-Thai DTA treaty. I used to have enough foreign passive income outside Thailand to avoid this issue, but now I have to figure out where in the US-Thai treaty is the wording that authorises that reattribution. Do you (or anyone) have experience with this issue? This involves US passive income remitted into Thailand.

All's fair in love and war -- and politics.

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

How could that be true? If Blackrock went under, it would make the Lehman Bros debacle look minuscule, and the US, maybe European, finance systems would risk melt down. Too big to fail. Anyway, customer funds are held separate from BLK assets.

If you are referring to prostatectomy, it's neither. Hopefully it can be done with one or two small incisions in the lower abdomen by laparoscopy.

Having a biopsy if PSA is over 4 or even under 4 if PSA rises more than 0.75 in a year was the standard 20 years ago. Now an MRI or PET scan can be done to look for cancer with followup biopsy if needed. An advantge of this approach is that this avoids the risk of a biospy missing a cancerous area of the prostate. If anyone has exprience with a Gallium 68 PET scan in Thailand, I would like to know, as it's very useful for detecting abdominal cancer as well as prostate cancer and possible metastaces (in cases of high PSA).

Yes. I had an intermediate SSD format (pre NVMe) in my Sony Vaio. By the time I replaced it, this format was no longer available in bigger capacity, so I had to downgrade to SATA which is slower. To use the old SSD as an external drive, I had to order an enclosure from Hong Kong.

If caught early, brachytherapy is good to maintain functionality. Today there was a BBC report about radiation done in 5 sessions being as effective as an extended course, and no hormone therapy needed. No recurrence after 5 years in 95% of 700 cases. No mention of complications, though.

Isn't there a shop where you can buy an SSD and a separate enclosure to put it? I took my old SSD out of the laptop and bought an enclosure online. You have to be careful to get an enclosure that works with the SSD in question.

It's not so simple. I used to live in France, and in 1979 the France-US tax treaty was revised and non-working American residents were subject to French tax on worldwide income. The treaty had a new provision to allow Americans extra credit on their US tax returns to compensate for the new situation. It was very complicated, so I and another 20000 Americans moved.

You have to have sufficient foreign income on Form 1116, unless the treaty allows an amount of US income to be classed as foreign income equal to the gross income reported on the Thai tax declaration. To me it's not clear whether this exception is allowed in the Thai-Us treaty. It is allowed in other US tax treaties.

You might lose on the exchange rate compared to an ATM withdrawal (if the ATM charge is sent to your country in Baht). This is significant for big withdrawals - THB 30K for example.

You can get a SGD 55 hamburger (with foie gras) at DB Bistro in Singapore. The original one in NY was definitely worth a try.