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Maybe they sampled Gaeng som from a "Thai" restaurant in Boston.... After checking the list, gaeng som is not longer there. At #12 is balut, an embyonic duck egg, to be eating from the shell! This list is ridiculous, anyway. Much aversion to various blood sausages, plus bland American icons such as Jello and Cheez Whiz. Australia is not ignored - two mentions of Vegemite.

Yes, Israel needs a constitution that protects the rights of all. Such a constitution can nonetheless contain inalterable provisions for Jewish languages and cultures as primary, while preserving the status quo for the Temple Mount, and protecting individual rights from oppression by zealots of the Three Abrahamic Faiths. I've asked several Jewish friends about the constitution question, and got no reply. After the present government, this may change. The "basic law" is becoming the "emperor's new clothes". In the end it will likely be pressure from the outside that will make the difference.

First of all, Crimea was part of Russia from 1783 until Khruschev incorporated it into Ukraine in 1954. The story is complicated. Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire until the First World War. At that time the British promised the Sharif of Mecca that, in return for revolt against the Ottomans, the Arab lands would be independent, including geographical Palestine. There was some contradiction with the 1917 Balfour Declaration promising Lord Rothschild the creation of a Jewish homeland. The reality for West Bank Palestinians is being harassed and killed by encroaching settlers. What would you do in their place? Israel's activity in the West Bank harks back to 19th Century colonialism with extraterritorial legal treatment for settlers.

That's what hard core Zionists would have us think.

In the end, can Israelis endure getting the South African treatment? Palestinian citizens of Israel are second class citizens, while Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are bordering on stateless, with hundreds of checkpoints and economic isolation. BDS is the progressive movement to end this: https://bdsmovement.net/ Netanyahu & Co have over the years created an atmosphere of siege, that compromise is an existential threat to the state. Meanwhile the Greater Israel project proceeds. With this new government, the world will clearly see that Israel is not a true democracy, and it's moral contradictions will be plain to see.

That might be OK if the settlers would follow Palestinian law and not have criminal intent.

The Palestinians were hoodwinked into the 1993 Oslo deal, which was supposed to be a two-state solution. In 2002 the Saudis seconded the two-state solution, but the US and Israel ignored them.

If it wants to be a democracy, Israel should have a constitution that assures equal rights to all. Aside from far-right US Evangelicals and ultra Orthodox, most Americans will eventually figure this out.

Don't forget about the 1994 massacre perpetrated by an American MD on Muslim worshippers in Hebron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre

Since you mention the Peel Commission, this Wikipedia entry shows that it was not accepted by all Jews, either, and Ben-Gurion and Weizmann saw it "as a stepping stone to some further expansion and the eventual takeover of the whole of Palestine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission Arab countries saw it as a betrayal of the promise of an independent Palestine. Furthermore, what really happened in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians fled from a newly created Israel, came to light in the 1980s through the efforts of Benny Morris: https://www.akevot.org.il/en/article/intelligence-brief-from-1948-hidden-for-decades-indicates-jewish-fighters-actions-were-the-major-cause-of-arab-displacement-not-calls-from-arab-leadership/?full

It was later reported that the first policeman who tried to pull Nichols out of his car, tasered him as well, was white. As this incident developed, there were quite a few other police and first reponders present. That makes it all the more shocking.

More like Biden licking N's boots!

Unfortunately at the moment the video is not available: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2021/5/6/swedens-thai-berry-pickers

It will be interesting to learn the background of these wayward cops. People with an authoritarian bent are not good candidates for community policing, so more care should be taken in hiring people who have served in the military, where the "us vs them" mentality is perhaps understandable after posting in Afghanistan or Iraq. Maybe existing policemen should be individually and thoroughly examined by psychiatrists to determine whether they are fit to be in contact with the public.

From the linked article: "Genomic tests can aid in the diagnosis of difficult diseases such as cancers. Genomics is the study of an organism’s entire genetic makeup, including all of its DNA sequences. By analyzing an individual’s genome, scientists can identify genetic variations that may be associated with a particular disease, leading to a precise diagnosis." This is modern medicine. Cancers may arise through genetic pathways in certain individuals, so analyzing a patient's genome may indicate which treatment is appropriate. Furthermore, immunological approaches to cancer treatment depend on sequencing the cancerous cells to produce a tailored upgrade to that patient's immune system. Moderna and BioNTech are working on cancer vaccines as well, which presumably would deal with more common cancers.

The article mentioned nominees (who front for foreigners).

If the Chinese arrive at Angkor temples by the busload as they were doing when I was there is 2015, you have to get up around 5 AM and finish your touring of popular sites by 8:30. Then continue at sites not visited by them.

I went yesterday to the Neurological Hospital around 11 AM. There was hardly anyone there, and the whole process getting a Pfizer booster took less than 30 minutes.

Maybe the sensible solution is only to allow individual travelers from China. Also, if there is any faking of vaccination certificates, that would be in the tour groups.

From the link ThaiPBS world: "At Chiang Mai International Airport, the first direct flight from China will land on March 15th. There will be about 200 flights during the three-month period, with 42 flights in January, 84 in February and 74 in March." So when are flights coming to Chiang Mai from China? Are the flights in January coming via Hong Kong?

The older mRNA vaccines work in reducing incidence of severe disease, hospitalization, etc, but are not very effective in preventing infection and transmission.

Rapid tests and swabs of the positives for sequencing could make up somewhat for the lack of transparency on the Chinese side. Thailand could be the sentinel for the dangerous variant the proves the exception to the rule of decreasing lethality. Chinese refusal to accept mRNA vaccines from the EU is very shortsighted considering the inadequately vaccinated population and insufficent facilities to treat serious cases.

The owner of the dogs should go to jail.

A certain number of excess deaths could have been caused by people who went untreated for other diseases because the health system was overburdened by COvid, etc.

Maybe he mixed up with Rick Scott, the Florida senator.