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The most disgusting was when right-wing AIPAC manipulated two Democratic primaries to get rid of incumbents by contributing $9 million in the case of Cori Bush (MO) and $12 million in the case of Jamaal Bowman (NY).

It does seem like America is going manic as it reacts in the runup to January 20th. Maybe informed foreigners see better what is happening to America than the locals can.

My roommate's thesis was on the Peter Principle. exploring the idea of promoting someone above his/her failed position to see whether he/she would display new competence. So perhaps the Dems should ask her to wait until they could expand the membership of the Supreme Court and then appoint her to it.

The tank firing which killed all the people in the house has been widely reported, so why don't you know about it? Anyway, I should try to ignore the people who keep repeating lies that are not germane to the subject of a thread, so the point of my latest reply was to return to the subject of the thread: Israel's Disinformation Campaign Against UNWRA, and I supplied relevant links on that subject.

You need an eSata drive to record programs for playback anytime later, but I heard that Truevisions is no longer selling them, or even providing replacements for their sat receiver boxes. I saw that they have a new approach, streaming with the possibility of playing any program that aired in the previous 7 days. That's not convenient for me when I go out of the country for a month. Truevisions recently deleted CNBC, but fortunately I only watch Meet the Press which NBC allows us to see online without their streaming subscription.

People in Iran are mostly born after 1953. but they are nonetheless aware that the CIA ran a coup that ousted the democratic government led by Mossadegh and elevated the Shah to autocrat status supported by SAVAK,a rather unpleasant secret police, so like the Syrians, I doubt that Iranians would like the interference of Mossad or CIA to institute regime change.

Now I have found out how to post the link from x.com: https://x.com/Israel/status/1728031404708032701 Trying to get back to where the comment about dead babies evolved from the original subject, UNWRA, I noticed that a lot of your posts replying to comments by others was the demand to post "credible" links. Sometimes people were only making very general statements with no specifics, so why was a link warranted? So here are links related to "Israel’s Disinformation Campaign Against UNRWA". These links report that Israel's claims were unsubstantiated: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report https://www.reuters.com/world/no-evidence-israel-back-unrwa-accusations-says-eu-humanitarian-chief-2024-03-14/ An UNWRA report says that "some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/ Do you have credible sources (with links) to substantiate Israel's claims?

Parallel to the OP question, if you have a retirement visa, is it possible to apply for less than 365 days extension in order to have the renewal date fall in a less busy period such as the rainy season?

The "baby-raper", baby beheader, baby burner hasbara was all debunked long ago. What did come out was than an Israeli general ordered a tank to fire on a house in a kibbutz where a few Hamas were holding a dozen or so Israelis, including young children. The Israeli act resulted in burned, dead children. Collateral damage.

I could not check your NYT link since I canceled my subscription a while ago after the newspaper reported IDF claims as fact without any apparent attempt to verify them. As to the European parliament link, it is just some members exercising their free speech right, not any demonstration of fact. Similarly, NPR is just reporting what the Israeli government told them. I agree that al-Monitor is good. Here is their story on the 296-page Amnesty report just issued on Israel's genocide in Gaza: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/12/amnesty-international-accuses-israel-committing-genocide-gaza

The claim that Israel's actions do not meet the definition of genocide was throughly debated by scores of countries in the ICJ hearing last January. South Africa's presentation, for example: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3 Here is one more recent report refuting this Zionist talking point that you repeat: "Conclusions 93. The overwhelming nature and scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza and the destructive conditions of life it has inflicted reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group. This report finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the following acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to groups’ members; and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Genocidal acts were approved and given effect following statements of genocidal intent issued by senior military and government officials. 94. Israel has sought to conceal its eliminationist conduct of hostilities sanctioning the commission of international crimes as IHL-abiding. Distorting IHL customary rules, including distinction, proportionality and precautions, Israel has de facto treated an entire protected group and its life-sustaining infrastructure as ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorist-supporting’, thus transforming everything and everyone into either a target or collateral damage, hence killable or destroyable. In this way, no Palestinian in Gaza is safe by definition. This has had devastating, intentional effects, costing the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians, destroying the fabric of life in Gaza and causing irreparable harm to its entire population." https://www.un.org/unispal/document/anatomy-of-a-genocide-report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territory-occupied-since-1967-to-human-rights-council-advance-unedited-version-a-hrc-55/ Regarding the claim that Israel gave up Gaza in 2005: As many have observed, Gaza continued to be an open air prison where Israel controlled entry and exit of goods and people. This meet the definition of occupation under international law, even if settlers and IDF were no longer inside Gaza. "Despite the Israeli disengagement, Gaza is still considered occupied by Israel under international law.[20][21] The current blockade prevents people and goods from freely entering or leaving the territory, leading to Gaza often being called an "open-air prison".[22][23] The UN, as well as at least 19 human-rights organizations, have urged Israel to lift the blockade.[24] Israel has justified its blockade on the strip with wanting to stop flow of arms, but Palestinians and rights groups say it amounts to collective punishment and exacerbates dire living conditions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip Regarding the collective punishment mentioned in the Wiki above, the Guardian reported in 2012 on Israeli government documents released inder court order covering the period of 2007-10: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/17/israeli-military-calorie-limit-gaza

Israel grabbed the Golan Heights in 1967, never gave it back. Around 20 years ago, there were negotiations to give it back, but the problem was whether the Syrian land would extend to the shore of the Sea of Galilee as before, even though the lake's shoreline had receded due to excess use of the water (Syrian position) or the Golan border with Israel would only go to where the shoreline was in 1967 (Israeli position).

I looked up the 700,000 tons claim. It was made by Israel during a Security Council briefing on Gaza on 22 August 2024: "For his part, the representative of Israel, said: “We did not ask for this war.” Israel is not intentionally killing civilians and “there is no famine in Gaza”, and the Israel Defense Forces take pride in being “the most moral army in the world”, he added. Since the start of the war, his country has facilitated more than 14,000 trucks carrying aid into Gaza — including over 700,000 tons of food, he said." https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15797.doc.htm (see paragraph 21 in this link) A while ago I saw Sacerdoti on BBC World News. He was spouting propaganda. I have not seem him there lately.

First of all, the juxtaposition of Netanyahu with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran is not the point. More appropriate is the truth that we can see with out own eyes in videos from the crime scenes compared to the denials by Netanyahu et al. I think that reports from BBC and al Jazeera are largely factual, although they may intervew people with bias and sometimes fail to explain the ideologial background of their think tank or NGO. For me, that's not a problem, but can confuse the average viewer. As for your request to name sources, the list is very long for a subject that I have followed since the 1960s.

Maybe you could use Zoom. That way you could get more people who are qualified.

Thanks. I can see the idea of people with quite advanced knowledge of Thai getting together to help each other polish their command of the language.

Well, maybe the claim of 700.000 tons of food seem to be an outrageous, blantant lie. Maybe there's a limit to the amount of huperbole that is kosher in the tradition of the Oxford Union.

Maybe Fetterman wants the governor of New York to pardon Trump, but he should have said so. People might think that he is hardly qualified to be a senator.

As for US rebuke, it's blame the injured party, i.e. Egypt. Until Israel took over the Philadelphi corridor inviolation of the 1979 treaty, some Palestinians could get out for medical treatment, etc. As for the unreliability of IDF and Israeli government spokesmen, their output has to conform to the narrative that they have been drilling into Israeli heads for years, dehumanizing Palestinians. Similarly, most of the Israeli media, except Haaretz, +972 and a few others, repeat the talking points, just as Nderitu and the Wall Street Journal opinion writers. The Washington Post opinion board also put out the same falsehoods. The Israeli propaganda a/k/a hasbara machine is working overtime.

Could you explain what is the Kaizen method, please.

Are you aware of the AUA Chiang Mai Thai language courses? https://www.expatden.com/thailand/thai-language-school-review-aua-chiang-mai/

Someone said "No", but I live in Chiang Mai and I do my first report by mail. Others should report the situation for other provinces.

Ms Nderitu was just echoing propagandistic claims of Israel, just as the Wall Street Journal Opinion of the Editorial Board does.

The request was quite a while ago, long before Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar were killed.