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I totally agree. The main problem is that Amy is running this year for reelection to her Senate seat, and Dems can ill afford losing any more Senate seats.

Michelle is a lot smarter than Barack, and she would have the sense to see where he failed, such as not making an effective effort to rescue families from foreclosure. That inept performance led to the current shortfall of 3 million homes and many families forced to rent, having lost their principal store of wealth, the family home. Due to the scarcity of housing compounded by high mortgage rates and the pandemic, house prices are out of reach of the disposessed families. This is a whole discussion that has been largely ignored, except for proposed giving of $25k to first-time buyers, a bad solution from Kamala.

You have to consider the motivation for the report in the first place. It's a smear campaign.

Trump was at a rally in Dearborn with six Muslim community leaders including the mayor who are endorsing him. Why? Because Kamala said she would not do anything different.

Her approach is lacking in substance on issues the electorate care about such as inflation, the border. I haven't even heard her on the abortion issue. For young progressives, she has given only lip service to the war in Gaza and Lebanon, not distancing herself from previous policy. She should not have feared backlash for speaking out, since moderate Jews and Christians have big concerns with what's going on. The others will vote for Trump in any case.

If Biden hadn't broken his promise to be a 1-term president, the Dems would have looked further than Kamala. Imagine if Michelle Obama were their candidate.

Maybe you should read the Wikipedia entry. The salient points: "The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is an American non-profit pro-Israel[2] media-monitoring, research and membership organization." "Critics of CAMERA claim that it is an ‘extreme Israel advocacy group’,[12] aligned with hawkish rightwing viewpoints; that it pays stipended fellows to write anti-Palestinian articles; and that it employs smear and intimidation tactics, routinely targeting media and journalists critical of Israel and pro-Palestinian activists on campuses.[13][12][14]"

It's interesting that you didn't mention Jordan. They were the ones with a serious army. There was a then secret agrement for Jordan to occupy the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Arab forces were no match for the Haganah, etc. In 1967 Nasser would have backed down, but Israel attacked by trashing the Egyptian air force. Sadly, Jordan got sucked in.

The report from CAMERA and related articles should be filtered by knowledge of the motives of CAMERA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Accuracy_in_Middle_East_Reporting_in_America

So the Palestinian Christians and Muslims are being punished for the apostacy of their ancestors?

Well, anyone who wants to know the truth can look at the videos.

Interesting link. It is mostly about a behind the scenes effort by Israel to use its vast American network to pressure South Africa to abandon the case.

Maybe 500 is OK, but how far does she have to travel?

I examined the link by the American judge in the case. There were orders issued on January 26th, for Israel not to commit genocide in Gaza.. Here is the same judge reading the order: Her appearance on BBC Hardtalk which you posted was a clarification concerning the use of "plausible" by the ICJ and by the world press. For the Court, the issue of plausibility concerned first, the standing of South Africa to make the case, and second, that the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide. She said that they then proceeded to look at the facts. She said that the press was speaking of "a plausible case of genocide", while the Court "emphasized in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide." This order concerned provisional measures, while the final decision will probably take a few years to be issued. The complete session can be seen here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa's_genocide_case_against_Israel "South Africa v. Israel[1] is an ongoing case that was brought before the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023 by South Africa regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war, that resulted in a humanitarian crisis and mass killings." Further on in the Wiki entry at the end of the Proceedings section states: "On 5 April 2024, the court set the schedule for comprehensive submissions of legal opinions by South Africa and Israel. The time limit for the South African memorial was set to be 28 October 2024, and for the Israeli response 28 July 2025.[128]"

Untrue.

When Hagari appeared in a video in a supposed command center in the basement of a Gaza hospital, he showed a list of operatives on the wall. It was a claim promptly debunked by viewers who could read Arabic who could see that it was a calendar. Aside from that, there was small gear that could have been placed there in minutes for show. Another scene showed weapons that looked like bazookas stashed behind an MRI machine. Again this equipment could have been placed there for filming, as the magnetic field generated by the MRI in use would have been problematical. So when Hagari does these cameo appearances, I would be skeptical of his claims. Did he conduct a walk through of the mile-long facility, or just show a room that could be in somebody's house?

Gee, the Japanese victim group to prevent nuclear war just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Your idea of nuking Gaza was already proposed on Iz TV. Was that a joke?

What? The ICJ decided that there was a plausible case of Israel committing genocide, but the final decision will take a few years, as is usual in their proceedings.

In the Oslo Accords, the Palestininas were not really offered a sovereign state. It was irresponsible of the Norwegians not to moderate the talks to prevent the imposition of a faulty agreement on the weak party. Fortunately, under international law, despite any provisions of Oslo, all the settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are still illegal.

Forcibly transferring children (as Putin did) need not be present to determine that genocide has happened. Your link says: "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 1. Killing members of the group; 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." The ICJ knows better than you what constitutes genocide, and have so far said that the case against Israel is plausibe.

Maybe the present Israeli government will end up undoing the work of 80 years to keep Germany on a leash of shame.

Is there any policy regarding telemedicine, i.e. a doctor advising or treating a patient in Thailand from Boston, for example?

Does she grind the corn? Is it white corn?

Nasi Jumpru has good food, but it's a bit too far to get take away for us. We have gotten khao soi gai from Khao Soi Mae Sai for years, always good. https://guide.michelin.com/th/en/chiang-mai-region/chiang-mai/restaurant/khao-soi-mae-sai