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The best choice ever!!!!!
Ours learnt a new trick to watch the street.

There was a BYU in Putney today, only heard about it Friday.
They're hopefully repeating in summer.
https://www.instagram.com/theputneyloop?igsh=MXV5cXFqYzBneXFnbA==

Had 21km to do on the plan for London.
4:30 for 8, 4:15 for 7, 3:50 for 6.
Felt ok.

Sadly can’t make it tonight, love to all. Added a donation to try and help.

1) Aroogah
2) Longandwinding
3) Otters
4) Snowy
5) Blackfoot
6) Marky
7) Skully
8) SeñorB
9) Oliver
10)’brows

Not sure I can put it better.
Thoughts and love with J+E, always was a real treat chatting Aram.

Either way you’re still going to be engaging the fat metabolism.
You might find the pre-run drink makes the 30-40minute slot (where you switch fuels regardless of faster or not) a more noticeable’bonk’ but you might not.
Try it- see- it won’t change anything, and you especially really don’t need to be worried about fat burn!

I could also use a name… similarly not great experience in the past

Correct.
But there is also a substantial movement- Christian Zionism- as mentioned upthread as well.
It is a well-documented belief of some of these groups that the state of Israel will bring the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity and/ or is a prerequisite for the second coming.

In the nearly 20 years which have passed since the ostensibly laudable founding of the BDS, there has been very little noticeable effect on the Israeli economy.
Independent reporting on the effects is essentially impossible to find, but given the most extreme theoretical effect I have seen quantified is $15bn. A number matched by foreign aid this month, let alone within the year.

In the places of power, the effects are not felt. Even with the settlers, there is enough economic wealth to support any losses felt. I am yet to see evidence of a closure of an illegal farm as a result of action.

As a cultural phenomenon, we do see the occasional superstar refusing to play an Israeli show, but this is faced with a very swift response by the Demonisation arm of the Israeli counter-response, with cries of Anti-Semitism immediately landing.
The boycott of academics, for the most part, lands at the wrong people, usually on the Israeli Left, and therefore the effects are in the face of effective outcomes.

All in all, coupled with governmental policy to prevent large scale adoption of the BDS principles, it is essentially futile.

It might be as good as it gets, but don't delude yourself as to its efficacy.

semi relatedly- this is a good read:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/14/bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions-movement-transformed-israeli-palestinian-debate

BDS is pointless.
Doubly so, when governments impose bans on local procurement policy from adoption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#United_Kingdom

Convenient blockade of network just as the intensity of the “search” increases.

This was about editing the post above.

.thread to ignore because I should've done that a long time ago.

Y'all should be making Kousa.
Trust me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADXdOdBu9U

This dish is my childhood.

• Sorry to interrupt the Child conversation, Aroogah's recipe a decade or so back is my go to. As for Carnitas.
  

It's due to hit London at about 3/4pm.
Has been downgraded on some models mind.

If that’s right…

Israel’s representation in western media has always been more positive and always will be more positive than the Palestinian representation.

Unrelated to this particular issue, where I happen to agree with your last point.
However, history tells me to expect that any phrase used in support of Palestinians could and would and has been interpreted as anti-Semitic.
Support for Palestine and Palestinians always draw this response, and always will.
As discussed elsewhere, at length, it serves no-one.

Aside from that, a lovely message from Labour on their feelings about Palestinians following Starmer's clarification of being spineless and having a broken moral compass.

“The main thing is to look like we care about Palestinian lives rather than arguing about the technical difference behind a ceasefire versus a pause.”

I'm aware this can be read differently, but I'd argue that given the context [given in the guardian article], I find it incredibly hard to read it that way.

Expanding on above-my fears are the seeming inevitable expansion, first to Lebanon or the West Bank, with the same edict “Hamas must be eradicated at any cost” will be used (replace Hezbollah for Hamas for Lebanon), to justify actions.

The saddest irony of ironies- if we see shift in the wrong, inevitable, direction - Gazans were significantly growing tired of Hamas- in a poll that completed on the 6th of October this year c 70% said they had little to no trust in Hamas.
73% wanted a peaceful solution to the conflict, and c 15% supported military approaches.

As that article points out this is now likely to change, as history shows that popularity for Hamas only grows in reaction to military action of Israel.

TL;DR- it feels increasingly inevitable that, buoyed by the seeming lack of opposition internationally , Israel will expand its operations, citing the same lie of “ridding Hamas” as they are now.

@Leshaches @h2o
Of course is is self-evident- from polls within Israel, the existence of Haaretz, that Israelis do not all agree with Netenyahu's brigade. That Jewishness and Israeli citizenship could ever be conflated is absurd to me, but is an incendiary device used by both sides equally abhorrently. For example-the Israeli narrative of defence is predicated on a weaponisation of a justified, historic and continued, sentiment of an existential threat to Judaism and the Jewish people. History shows us clear evidence of the random spikes of anti-semitism, from the 1200s in England, to the Holocaust, to Synagogue bombings. The Israeli UN Ambassador pinning a yellow Star of David onto his chest is emblematic of this. As this continues- the lines between the 3 separate entities (Israel, Israeli, Jewish) effectively diminish in the eyes of already prejudiced people.
As in Shatz' article (and many others) this leads to a reduction in safety for Jewish people globally, as can be seen in some of the abhorrent racist acts that are occurring.
(the same racism is present against Arabs and Muslims- but thats not the point of today's diatribe)
Thus we have an end result of blurring of Jewishness<->Israel which serves no-one.

Secondly, on the note of ascribing support to Israelis vs Israel- I would argue that external support of Israel is inherently supportive of the military action-and has moved beyond support of the Israeli people- with "ridding of Hamas" narrative predominating, regardless of what that means in practice.
This is backed up by polls in the US, as well as the UK (with less % favourability): [yes the poll is outdated]

SSRS/CNN found that 50 percent of Americans thought the Israeli government’s military response was fully justified, and another 20 percent thought it was partially justified. And a YouGov/The Economist survey from Oct. 14-17 found that only 18 percent of Americans thought the Israeli government’s response has been too harsh; 32 percent thought it was about right, and 22 percent thought it was not harsh enough.

This is both similar in narrative structure to the "War On Terror", and explicitly reflected by governmental support. From Biden's "unwavering" support, Braverman's policies, Sunak and Starmers spinelessness, and refusal or abstention in the UN to press for ceasefire is complicity in the current genocide purported by Israel.

As such, as much as we would like to be able to say:
I support the Israeli and Palestinian people's right to peace and safety", the message now being put forward, and evidentially supported is "Israel must rid Gaza of Hamas, regardless of cost".
And that cost- will hurt Palestinians now, Israelis tomorrow, and Jewish people in the future.

3,200 children.
How can anyone support this?
How can our government abstain from a UN resolution?
What disgusting cowards we have in ‘power’. Lily-livered wastes of flesh.
I try and be level headed, but these figures are beyond comprehension.
The longer the allowance the more bold Netenyahu, that abhorrent illusion of a man, becomes.
More than the annualised death toll of children in war zones.
In 3 weeks.

3,200…
I apologise for an abnormally emotional post. I can’t always be rational.

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One can view Islam as the successor to Christianity...

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This level of ignorance and reductionism is astonishing....

This is arguably a self-description of the Islamic faith. Not necessarily worded perfectly, but its a short post on a cycling forum not a textbook.

References:
https://www.al-islam.org/articles/islam-first-and-last-religion-mansour-leghaei
Al-Biruni's work
and of course Wikipedia

When he was about 40 years old, he began receiving at mount Hira' what Muslims regard as divine revelations delivered through the angel Gabriel, which would later form the Quran. These inspirations urged him to proclaim a strict monotheistic faith, as the final expression of Biblical prophetism earlier codified in the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity;

I edited the above as my reply was too ad-hominem.
The post regarding your studies seems out of character, and my inclusion of it in my reply added nothing.

And you and Tom W smashed it!

No, and excellent piece there.

The snake surely is in the pluses!
wWell done Hats!

Bengals look good. 9ers seem off again.