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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.

During the British Mandate, it was Ashkenazi jews who moved to Palestine. The economic improvement began in the mid-19th Century. Rural Palestinian farmers were no doubt poor.

Egypt, the Palestinians, and the rest of the World (except US) do not want to see another Nakba. Apparently the White House had a budgetary item for resettling Gazans and asked Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to take them. All refused.

Your source, FDD, or Foundation for Defense of Democracies, i.e. Israel, is hardly reliable. The fdd link concerns the period when Israel violated the 1979 treaty with Egypt by occupying the Philadelphi corridor.

What I mean is that forensic investigation may help understand whether there were any military objectives involved in mass bombing, particularly in the first weeks of the war. Here is the ICC rule on proportionality: "Pursuant to Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the 1998 ICC Statute, the following constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts: Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects … which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated." https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule14 It was Israel's choice to use the Lavender program, apparently a kind of AI, to identify "targets" with such rapidity that humans could not do due diligence to verify the accuracy before the bombs dropped.

Well, I meant that Karim Khan requested warrants for the three Hamas people, but Israel killed two or maybe three of them by the time the Court authorized the warrants.

The problem is not you, but the settlers doing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, for example.

There are several videos in the links, but CNN did not post the video discussed. As I explained, there are many links referring to videos without posting them. If you google the term "IDF shooting Palestinians video" you can also find YouTube videos and many discussions of IDF atrocities.