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This is possibly ominous: Hezbollah, Israel exchange fire following attack from Palestinian militants Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire on Sunday — one day after Palestinian militants launched a deadly surprise attack in Israel, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured. Hezbollah said Sunday that it fired off guided rockets and artillery in the Shebaa Farms to show they stand “in solidarity” with the Palestinian people, Reuters reported. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that IDF “struck targets in the area” after Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group, fired rockets into Israel. https://thehill.com/policy/international/4244228-hezbollah-israel-exchange-fire-following-attack-from-palestinian-militants/

Here is a graphic with four heat maps of average temperatures at 20 year intervals for Northern Hemisphere summers https://archive.ph/d1YKX https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/extreme-summer-heat.html

I don't ordinarily have much use for Thomas Friedman but I think his belief that the Iranians played a strong role in instigating the Hamas attack is sound. The last thing the Iranians want is a Saudi et alii rapprochement with Israel. https://archive.ph/JnKnt

When it's a billionaire like Branson pontificating about such subjects he has no expertise in, the right pours scorn upon him. When it's a billionaire like Musk pontificating about subjects he has no expertise in, the right goes all weak in the knees.

Here is what you wrote: "The only think California agriculture is suffering from is the lefts abandonment of water and forest management to promote their green idiocy. " What is there in the article I linked to that supports your claim that it's the fault of the left and their green idiocy?

I invoked your name because Retarius answered the question that I posed to you. And you really should read take the time to read the stuff you write. Here is what you wrote: "That applies to me with my opinion on any western media that I have access to. To say they are biased would be an understatement. The only one I look at is Al Jazeera, as they are not western and also not depending on advertisers."

The only person here who is claiming lack of bias in certain media sources is you.

Once again, a crucial sentence was left out of that video.

Whatever the merits of Al-Jazeera may be, thaibeacher's belief that Al-Jazeera is superior because it does not depend on advertisers, is clearly ludicrous.

Who does Al-Jazeera depend on?

Or it could be a genuine twofer.

"Conclusion We document that the ACA’s Medicaid expansions for low-income adults improved parents’ self-rated health and children’s BMI. Given the health disparities that persist across the socioeconomic spectrum and the compounding nature of health improvements in childhood, the Medicaid program likely serves to shrink these gaps within states that expanded their Medicaid programs. These findings also indicate that there is the potential to reduce similar health disparities in states that have not yet" And this data comes before Biden's massive expansion of the program.

Certainly possible. But given that they must have known that this would invite massive retaliation from the Israelis, I believe that this was basically directed at Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar and whatever other Arab nations are considering a rapprochement with Israel.

You're correct. My mistake.

Really? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1570677X21001234

No. He made no such claim. What he did claiim was that the Egyptian troops overwhelmed the Israelis. And in the early stage of the war that was true.

He expanded Medicaid for kids https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicaid-works-for-children#:~:text=Medicaid provides children with essential,comprehensive and preventive health services.

What was negotiated?

Actually, at the outset of the 73 war, the Egyptians made deep inroads into the Sinai before being stopped.

Fair enough.

More nonsense. Black voters are far more concerned with issues than with the race of the candidate. Republicans actually performed slightly worse in the recall election with Larry Elder a black Californian being the leading opponent to Newsom, than they did in the subsequent regularly scheduled election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_California_gubernatorial_recall_election https://archive.ph/cRpNQ

Maybe not so much among the rising generation: How Israeli youth helped usher in the farthest right-wing government ever Over the past month, tens of thousands of Israelis have come out to protest their new government’s proposed judicial reforms, which could weaken the country’s democracy and separation of powers. The crowds are diverse in age, but unlike popular liberal or democratic protests in many countries, attendees say the audience skews older. Recent polling backs that surprising observation: A joint poll published by the Israel Democracy Institute last month found that 73 percent of Jewish Israelis between ages 18 and 24 identify as right-wing, compared with only 46 percent of Jewish Israelis over 65. https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/2/23/23609584/israel-right-wing-young-voters-palestine

And is it quite acceptable to agree with him?

Given the provocation of the statement being responded to: "Time for forgiveness is over. We must take Gaza and keep it. Eradicate the bloodthirsty factions. And transform the place as Haussmann did for Paris. Being able to shoot the canon at mad dogs crowds helps." I think his comment is understandable. Or maybe you have no problem with Ben Zioner's statement?

Well, for one thing, it should at least delay the warming of relations between Israel and various Arab nations