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When I lived in Pattaya, vitually every pharmacy I visited had both the nicotene patches and gum, both international brands and local, generic equivalents.

Jews who are serious about keeping kosher, whether from Israel or another country, only eat in restaurants which have been certified as kosher by a rabbi or rabbinic agency. It surprises me that Israelis would ask about kosher dishes at a pizzeria in Pattaya. It's exremely difficult to obtain kosher ingredients, especially beef, in Thailand. You can't make kosher food from ingredients you buy through normal restaurant food supply channels. Moreover, it's nearly impossible for a restaurant that serves both kosher and non-kosher food to be certified kosher. The restaurant would have to have two seperate kitchens and no equipment or utensils could be shared between them. How likely is that? However, far from all Jews follow kosher strictly. There's a sliding scale for observing kosher, from "very strictly" to "not at all." It's entirely possible Israelis who aren't worried about kosher would eat in a Pattaya pizzeria, but I doubt they'd ask about kosher meals. A kosher pizzeria in Jerusalem:

This is indeed a scary situation for British Jews, especially those with dual citizenship in the U.K. and Israel. If doctors feel strongly enough about the Palestinian cause to justify the slaughter of Israeli civilians attending a music festival as "resistance," isn't there at least a risk they will also regard fatal mistreatment of Israeli or Jewish patients as resistance? Suppose an IDF reservist would seek medical care while on a visit to the U.K. Would a Palestine doctor feel it's right to administer a treatment intended to kill, rather than cure, the patient? Two Australian licensed nurses, a male originally from Afghanistan and female of Palestinian background, recently threaten to kill Israeli patient, with the male apparently bragging he had already done so. https://aseannow.com/topic/1351586-australian-nurses-suspended-over-hate-speech-antisemitic-video-as-investigation-unfolds/ Threats of harm or death on the Internet are often dismissed as harmless hyperbole because they aren't credible threats- and rightly so. However, threats by medical professionals fall into an entirely different category. Doctors and nurses are in a position to cause considerable harm to patients. At the very least, the doctors cited in the OP are guilty of hate speech, which isn't a commendable attribute for a physician.

It's not a play on words, but as you say, reality, not semantics. A home region is a geographical area, while a home country is a political entity. A person can be born and live all his or her life in North America, Southeast Asia or Western Europe. They can be correctly described as North American, Southeast Asian or Western European in terms of national origin, but they can't be citizens of any of the three regions because they aren't countries or other political entities which confer citizenship. Same-same with Palestine and Palestinians. Before 1988- go back as far in time as you want - people who were born and lived in the area today regarded as historical Palestine weren't subjects or citizens of any kingdom or country called Palestine. But you knew that already. In the later half of the 19th century and first two decades of the 20th century, they would have been subjects of the Ottoman Empire, which didn't have a nationality law until 1869. During the years of Mandatory Palestine (1920-1948), they would have been British Protected Persons but not British subjects. After the British withdrew and the Mandate for Palestine ceased to exist, the citizenship of Palestinian Arabs became complicated. Most became citizens of Jordan, some became citizens of Israel and others remained stateless. The Palestinian Authority has issued "passports" since 1995. While they are accepted by numerous countries as valid travel documents, they aren't generally regarded as proof of citizenship.

Jack off or jerk of* the beaten track?

@Centigrade32 I was responding to the use of "Palestine" in a post that has since been deleted. I wanted to emphasize Palestine had never been anyone's homeland until 1988 when the PLO declared the state of Palestine, It could have been their home region, but not their home country. To discuss the entire background of the formation of the state of Israel- who owned what land when- is clearly off topic and I won't go there. But it does give me an idea to start a thread about who owned land and lived in Palestine before 1948.

Even more idiocy from Ye- Fox TV Condemns 'Appalling' Kanye West Super Bowl Ad for Swastika Tees: 'We Regret These Commercials Aired' https://www.thewrap.com/fox-ceo-condemns-kanye-west-super-bowl-antisemitic-ad/ He could be facing criminal charges as it's illegal in the U.S. to use deceptive means to get ads on TV.

And now they are stuck with him unless public outrage is strrong enough to cause the government to rescind his Australian citizenship.

You are confusing the concept of Palestine as a geographical region with a nation state. The source you give states (I bolded the text): "Although the Arabs of Palestine had been creating and developing a Palestinian identity for about 200 years, the idea that Palestinians form a distinct people is relatively recent. The Arabs living in Palestine had never had a separate state. Until the establishment of Israel, the term Palestinian was used by Jews and foreigners to describe the inhabitants of Palestine and had only begun to be used by the Arabs themselves at the turn of the 20th century."

This is serious. The cops are also investigating. Australian hospital examines patient records after nurse claims to have killed Israelis https://apnews.com/article/australia-bankstown-hospital-nurses-kill-israelis-4600438279d0a1e5b75f9a31a3108ff3 The male nurse, Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir, is from Afghanistan and the female, Sarah Abu Lebdeh, is Palestinian. https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/world-news/family-of-viral-antisemitic-australian-nurse-says-she-was-set-up/

It's not BS at all. The Royal Thai Police warned in November of a possible terrorist attack on Israelis at a full moon party: Israeli tourists face terror threat at Koh Pha Ngan Full Moon party Royal Thai Police (RTP) issued a spine-tingling warning, revealing that terrorists are targeting Israeli holidaymakers at the infamous Full Moon party on Thailand’s tourist haven, Koh Pha Ngan. In a bombshell announcement, the RTP disclosed that they’ve received info indicating a sinister plot to attack Israeli tourists at the island celebration. https://thethaiger.com/news/national/israeli-tourists-face-terror-threat-at-koh-pha-ngan-full-moon-party Local police quickly denied there was a terrorist plot aimed at Israelis. The warning may have been inaccurate, but it had indeed been made. Many Israeli young people attend full moon paties. There are hostels, guest houses and restaurants on Koh Pha Ngan popular with Israelis which would make niviting targets for terrorists. Moreover, terrorists have never been worried about killing others alongside their target group. The answer is "yes." The U.S. failed to predict 9/11 and the U.K., France, Russia, Germany and other countries have all failed to anticipate terrorist attacks. What point are you trying to make? Intelligence-gathering agencies can't reveal the sources of their information, that's a ridiculous thought. The best evidence of terrorist attacks is the number of people who have been killed in them. Since 1920, a total of 5,507 Jews have been killed in terrorist attacks in Mandatory Palestine or the state of Israel. The number since 1948, the year Israel was founded, is 4,822. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/number-of-terrorism-fatalities-in-israel And of course it's not just Israel. Since 1995, about 4,000 U.S. citizens or residents have been killed in terrorist attacks inside and outside the U.S.

I know you addressed your question @hotsun, but I'll answer as well. Kanye West is one of the top musicians in the U.S. His string of chart-topping albums helped earn him a fortune once estimated at $2 billion, maybe more. He became a famous celebrity with millions upon millions of followers on social media. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world on two occassions. All that makes him extremely privileged. His antisemitic remarks have made America worse for everyone. He contrbuted to the surge in hatred of Jews, which has resulted in violence under the "Ye is Right!" banner. I'll repeat what I wrote earlier:

"After Roman times the name [Palestine] had no official status until after World War I and the end of rule by the Ottoman Empire, when it was adopted for one of the regions mandated to Great Britain." https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine There had never been an independent kingdom, nation or state called Palestine before the PLO declared the creation of the State of Palestine in 1988. Arabs living in Mandatory Palestine had been offered a state under the 1947 U.N. partition plan, but the Arab League rejected the plan. What Israel took over on May 14, 1948, was the territory allotted to the Jewish state under the United Nation's partition plan for Mandatory Palestine, which at that time was under British control. Before the U.K. received the Mandate for Palestine from the League of Nations, the Ottoman Empire had ruled the region we today call historical Palestine since 1516 CE. Prior to the Turks, the rulers had been the Mamluk Sultanate; Ayyubid Dynasty; European Crusaders; Fatimid Caliphate; Mongol Empire; Abbasid Caliphate; Umayyad Caliphate; Rashidun Caliphate; Byzantine Empire; Roman Empire; Seleucid Empire; Ptolemaic Kingdom; Achaemenid (Persian) Empire; Babylonian Empire and Assyrian Empire. You have to go back to Biblical times and the Iron Age to find centuries in which people who were actually born in historical Palestine ruled the region. That would be the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. .

Forbes estimated Ye's fortune at $2 billion in 2022, but said it dropped to $400 million because corporations cancelled deals after his antisemitic remarks. Ye himself claimed his fortune had been $3.3 billion. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2023/04/05/heres-why-kanye-west-dropped-off-the-forbes-billionaires-list/