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Because the last thing they want is another Nakba. Arab states say Palestinians must stay on their land as war escalates It reflects deep Arab fears that Israel's latest war with Hamas in Gaza could spark a new wave of permanent displacement from land where Palestinians want to build a future state. "This is the cause of all causes, the cause of all Arabs," Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday. "It is important that the (Palestinian) people remain steadfast and present on their land." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/arab-states-say-palestinians-must-stay-their-land-war-escalates-2023-10-13/

This is an interesting interview. A few other notable statements from Marwan Muasher: - What Israel is doing goes far beyond neutralising Hamas. They are trying to affect a mass transfer. - If Palestinians are let out, they will not be allowed to return as was the case in 1948. - It will continue to escalate if the US keeps sending arms to Israel. 10:11: “It has clearly become mass killing. Israel says it is defending itself, but there is no international law that defends mass killing of civilians”. - There needs to be a political horizon, and he refers to the IRA in Northern Ireland which transitioned from terrorism to politics.

Definitely true, although I would use "supporters" rather than "fans".

The American Dream - destroyed by violent illegal immigrants. New York City Mayor Eric Adams challenges sanctuary city laws, calls for more cooperation with ICE In a harsh rebuke of New York's sanctuary city status, Adams on Tuesday called for more cooperation between federal immigration officials and local police, supporting the idea of them working together to deport migrants who are suspected of serious crimes. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-challenges-sanctuary-city-laws-calls-for-more-cooperation-with-ice/#:~:text="I don't believe people,our city%2C" Adams said.

More colloquially referred to as Trump Derangement Syndrome.

He is referring to the illegal murderous immigrants such as the one who murdered Laken Riley, or the ultraviolent cartel members such as the Tren de Aragua gang who roam the streets, or the hordes of savages who have made New York a hellhole to the point where Mayor Eric Adams is begging for help. Yes, Trump is right by saying these scumbags are not even worthy of being called people.

Another viewpoint is that he is a protectionist and cares for his people by protecting their borders and preventing the entry of criminals nobody wants to encounter. Then comes the second step, which is to cease the various types of exploitation and nefarious interventions in other countries so that people there can also be sovereign and happy instead of being forced to flee and live the horrendous life of a refugee.

Yes indeed, with regards to what we were talking about the other day, about the German guy killing a kid on a scooter, in this report they clearly say "two farangs", not "two foreigners". Then the news anchor goes on to say "Phuket, again! But this time New-Zealanders". The exasperation is palpable.

I did not say Hamas would not exist without Netanyahu, I said it would not exist without the Israeli establishment. Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told the New York Times that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”).

But given (as I demonstrated earlier in this thread and as is also well explained in the below article) that this attack would not have happened if Hamas had not been purposefully engineered by the Israeli establishment, a rational and objective observer can only be wary of the unilateral portrayal of Hamas as an independent threat, inherently embedded into the Palestinian civilisation, with the subsequent implied justification/tolerance of indistinct annihilation (cf. Jordan Peterson's infamous tweet "give 'em hell Netanyahu" which is quite representative of this trend). Nothing is farther from the truth: without the Likud's active and Messianic-driven interference, a two-state solution would have happened a long time ago and Hamas would not exist. Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas The Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war. [...] For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip—money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-netanyahu-bolstered-hamas/

A common sense statement indeed.

Exactly.

have they "finally got him" now then?

Political prisoners.

Indeed I can. Pretty good stuff on Tik Tok, in terms of truth. It probably won't last, it never does.

As a seasoned conspiracy theorist, I can assure you that TikTok is one of the very few large platforms where you can still speak the truth (or "misinformation" as they say in the media). That's why they want to ban it, the Chinese threat is just the justification they have come up with.

Yes, I also think it is notable and other reports will have to be monitored to see if it an actual trend or if it is just a one-off slip-up by the news channel staff (which does happen).

"Farang" does not imply the same thing as "negro" would in a Western news report. It is a colloquial term, and while it can have derogatory undertones in some contexts, it is generally not used to belittle foreigners. On a more general note, I do expect that the very nationalist Thais will grow increasingly irritated at the political endeavour to "blend" Thailand in the global market as the current PM is intent on doing ("increased cooperation with the EU", easing visa processes, boosting tourism in the country…). This is likely to cause friction.

Yes there is, and those who deny it do so because they don't want to look for the reason.

I am not denying fertility has been declining for many years, I am saying (and I am sure you understood me perfectly the first time) that it has crashed over the past couple of years. One wonders why you would refuse to acknowledge this plain fact.

The marker seems to be 2022 in a lot of articles I have been reading. Here are a few examples, but there are a lot more: Births in Italy heading for new record low in 2023 - stats office In 2022 as a whole, births fell 1.7% to 393,000, a 14th consecutive drop and the lowest number since the country's unification in 1861. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/births-italy-heading-new-record-low-2023-stats-office-2023-10-26/ Why is Switzerland's birthrate declining so drastically? https://www.nzz.ch/english/why-is-switzerlands-birthrate-declining-so-drastically-ld.1772392 Fewer and Faster: Can We Stop the Global Fertility Collapse? And yet Finland’s total fertility rate was 1.32 in 2022, the lowest birth rate since the country started keeping track in 1776. [...] The strange thing with fertility is nobody really knows what’s going on. https://www.aei.org/articles/fewer-and-faster-can-we-stop-the-global-fertility-collapse/ Births in Italy heading for new record low in 2023 - stats office https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/births-italy-heading-new-record-low-2023-stats-office-2023-10-26/ Among the countries confronted with this situation, China is facing perhaps the most severe challenges, with falling births already producing a decline in the overall population since 2022. https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Child-care-subsidies-can-help-address-China-s-population-crisis In 2022, Japan's overall fertility rate stood at 1.26 percent, well below the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) standard of 2.1 required for a stable population. https://www.newsweek.com/japan-alarm-population-crisis-last-chance-1874181 Brazil census shows population growth at its slowest since 1872 "In 2022, the annual growth rate has been reduced to less than half of what it was in 2010 (1.17%)," census technical coordinator Luciano Duarte said in a statement. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-census-shows-population-growth-its-slowest-since-1872-2023-06-28/

Same as in every country in the world since 2022. What is the explanation for this sudden and simultaneous wordlwide drop in fertility, across all continents and populations?

Can't see what happened on the video. Yes, the headline at the top of the video says "farang" which I find surprising, to my knowledge they used to use the proper word for foreigner in official news reports. Otherwise, there isn't any particular stigmatisation of the guy in the report, just (understandable) exasperation at the fact that he just said "sorry" repeadedly before speeding off without assisting and the boy died.

It is not astonishing at all, when you actually look at his policies. Protectionism works.

I agree, but there are also those who were never bar girls and are still married, but are just not happy with the tedium of a 9-to-5 in the West (or Europe, should I say, admittedly I overgeneralised when I included the USA which I can't speak about).