the basic question is this: what does israel get in return for withdrawing?

nothing?

then go fuck yourself.

if i were israel, i would make it clear that the end of hostilities in lebanon requires, by definition, the complete disarmament and withdrawal of hezbollah, who are illegally occupying the country. there can be no peace in lebanon without the complete withdrawal of the hezbollah occupiers.

if the agreement between the united states and iran calls for a unilateral withdrawal of israel from lebanon without a subsequent withdrawal of hezbollah from lebanon, that would be a non-starter and something israel could not abide by. so long as hezbollah is in lebanon, israel will also be in lebanon. the agreement would need to call for a bilateral withdrawal, and the withdrawal would need to be carried out reciprocally, or it's a non-starter and it won't be abided by.

i was at 149.6 when i went to sleep this morning. i'm at 149.0 now. it's time to eat again.

i'm noticing some more substantive weight loss over the last few days (i've had to tighten my belt to stop my pants from falling off), and it's had a noticeable effect on the acne. the puffiness akin to an allergic reaction - the stupid jock face syndrome - has lifted, which is exposing a lot of blemishes under the build up of dead skin that is coming off, and that are starting to wash off. so, it looks maybe worse right now, but it's getting better. give it a few more pounds and that should clear up.

i don't think i've ever been over 150 pounds before previously in my life, and i'm 45 years old. this is highly uncharacteristic and about as fat as i'm ever going to get. the reason it snuck up on me is that i've never had to deal with it before. i've always struggled to gain weight; i've always been too thin. i caught it when my bmi started coming up over 23 and i started to notice the acne resulting from it. 

if i start getting back into my normal exercise routine soon, i shouldn't find myself that concerned about the weight. i'm just still struggling to climb out of the rock bottom i hit a few years ago due to the pandemic restrictions, which functionally ended my social life and which i never recovered from, and reestablish a sense of normality. reasserting my normal weight is a healthy part of this process of renormalizing.

it is a clearly empirical, objective, uncontestable fact that there is no such thing as god, and any individual expressing belief in god is expressing mental illness and should be recommended for treatment.

let us begin with that and start from there.

second, we need to more seriously address the problem of drug addiction, as a society. our courts have failed on this issue. repassing laws prohibiting drug use in order to recreate a social stigma around it is a necessary first step, but it's not enough. we failed to properly educate the millennial generation about the dangers of drug use, and we're seeing the consequences of that failure in education. 

the best way to educate young people about the dangers of drug use is to show them what drug addicts actually look like. they're not attractive people, they're pathetic losers, and young people will see that if you stop sheltering them from it and actually allow them to observe the evidence first hand.

no child should say "i want to be a drug addict when i grow up".

we should be spending billions to develop scientific therapies to cure people of the mental illness of theism and religionism, to start with. wiping out the mental health scourge of faith and eradicating the backwardsness of belief should be a dominant public health priority.

the irony you will find with these drug dealer pushers with this most recent snake oil scam is that the true believers think they are providing treatment for "mental health", when the truth is that the bulk of them are symptomatic schizophrenics that need therapy, themselves.

no schizophrenic idiot that believes in god should ever be looked to to provide "mental health" guidance for the mentally ill. 

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/prophet-of-ecstasy-doc-9.7237506