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Surely the problem is that many of those who watched it will in fact have believed it, if only because it reinforces stereotypes they have been fed for decades. Once the cat is out of the bag, it's a massive job to get it back!

I agree, but surely the sad fact is there are far too many around the world who take the wording in the primary religious books as just that - 'fact'. I have written this before some years ago, but there are some who object to the writings and misinterpretations about homosexuality and the fact that Bibles are placed in the bedside drawers in a huge number of hotel rooms. This well known activist whom I shall not name always looked for the Leviticus verses and tore the pages out of these Bibles! Some will object to such 'destruction'. Others will applaud. Well, he is an actor!

I have to admit I have done three cruises - and paid for none! My late best friend whom I had known for 48 years was a great public speaker. In the late 1990s he was hired by the small luxury Seabourn Cruise Line (the ships in its small fleet then generally accommodated only 400 or so passengers) to give lectures on a subject on which he was something of an expert. This quickly became a regular summer activity on a number of cruise lines. Most of his cruises were about 8 weeks in the summer. His wife usually accompanied him but as she was a teacher she frequently had to return home before they ended. If none of his children or grandchildren could complete the cruise with him, he'd kindly invite me. I had three cruises on two Cruise Lines - a week from Athens to Istanbul (my first visit to that stunning city), a week from Malta to Venice (sailing into Venice at dawn was one of the great travel experiences), and then unusually one February a 17-day cruise from The Bahamas around the Caribbean before sailing 1,600 kms up the Amazon to Manaus. As @fedssocr points out, the rooms with balconies, excellent food (but far too much of it given there were 7 meals a day!), free open bar were initially great but best of all were the shore excursions and the destinations. But I did find that one week was enough. The 17-day cruise really began to bore me by half way through. I could join those cruises thanks to free tickets due to tons of air miles. One cruise he and his wife joined was on The World. This is an almost unique large ship with one-, two- and three-apartment residences which you purchase for a humongous amount as you would an apartment on land. Indeed, some passegers do live full-time on the ship. The owners then determine the ship's itinerary. Since the accommodations are so spacious, average occupancy is only 150-200. When my friend did his lecture cruise, there were all of 65! https://aboardtheworld.com/residences/

Oh dear @Moses! Why do you not quote correctly? The banning is of the International LGBT movement and its activities in RUSSIA! The reason? As stated by the Court LGBT "activists" should be designated as "extremists". But again you quote no sources! President Vladimir Putin, expected shortly to announce that he will seek a new six-year term in March, has long sought to promote an image of Russia as a guardian of traditional moral values in contrast with a decadent West. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist-2023-11-30/#:~:text=MOSCOW%2C Nov 30 (Reuters),lead to arrests and prosecutions.

Oh! Russia has many ways of eliminating those it sees as some sort of threat to its leaders. There was the poison-tipped umbrella killing of a Bulgarian dissident in London. Being fair that was pre-Putin. Much more recently has been the attempted poisoning in March 2018 of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in England by a Novichok nerve agent. It was the first known use of a military grade chemical agent on European soil since WWII. That attempted murder failed when not enough of the poison found its way into their bodily systems. But Russia was accused of attempted murder of double agent Skripal and led to the explusion of an unprecedented 153 Russian diplomats. 28 other countries agreed and all expelled Russian diplomats. In June 2018, two British nationals were also infected with Novichok and also close to Salisbury. One died. He had found a perfume bottle in a litter bin. It was later proved this had been left by the Russians in March. The public enquiry traced the poisonings to Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Both were later identified correctly as Russian GRU agents operating under false names. Both are part of the highly secretive Unit 29155 of the GRU. Petrov is in fact Alexander Mishkin and Boshirov as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga. It was later discovered that both travelled on passports with just three digits separating the numbers. These fell within the range of a Russian military official earlier expelled from Poland for spying. The nerve agent was identified as Russian Novichok developed by the Soviet Union in 1980 by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons along with British laboratories. Vil Mayazaranov, a former Soviet scientist who had helped develop the Novichok range of chemical weapons, stated that hudreds of people would have been effected by residual contamination and the Skripals would be left with debilitating health issues for the rest of their lives. Interestingly the two Russian GRU personnel were interviewed by Russian TV in September. They claimed they had flown to Britain as tourists - for just two days? Who did they expect would believe that? And the only object of their tourism was not to see London or do anything in the UK other than to see Salisbury Cathedral which theyclaimed they had heard was worth visiting! And as if anyone would believe that! They shouldn't because the local street cctv cameras showed they never went near the Cathedral! The BBC traced one of the perpetrators to his home in Moscow. He only said he had been a tourist before shutting the door. The end result was that Putin was furious at the botched attempt to murder Skripal and ordered a purge of senior officials in the GRU. The head of the GRU "died" 2 months later. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/26/skripal-poisonings-bungled-assassination-kremlin-putin-salisbury

This is somewhat of a tangent. I have never hired a Siam Roads guide as I love doing my own exploring around a continent I know quite well after so many decades. But I did have one young man contact me on an app during one trip 3 years ago just prior to covid closing borders. We spent two lovely days together and he was clearly experienced in sex which was great. It was only later I discovered he was a Siam Roads guide. Obviously on his days off!

As far as the raids being to find drugs, given the timing just a couple of days after the anti-gay legislation was passed, that has to be the joke of the week. Also @Moses information again is incorrect. It was more than one bar/venue in Moscow. One was the dance club Malaya Yakimanka Ulitsa with more than 300 attending. But the raids were on several - all as reported by The Moscow Times and in other Russian media. One was a club near Avtozavodskaya metro station and another a men's strip club near the Polyanka metro station. But then of course @Moses never provides sources - except for once when the two he posted were in Russian and Japanese and on translation were found to have nothing to do with the subject of his post! As for St. Petersburg, his information is also 100% misleading. The club in St. Petersburg was the long established Central Station which was not actually raised but forced to shut down on Friday after its landlord evicted the management "over the Supreme Court's ban on the LGBT community." Also referring to @Moses second paragraph, I have listened to the exact words Putin said two weeks ago. It is 100% clear he was talking exclusively about western society, and he was laughing when he said it! His words had absolutely nothing to do with Russia and Russian society. So @Moses is yet again trying to pull the wool over our eyes. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/02/moscow-police-raid-gay-clubs-after-extremist-ban-on-lgbt-community-a83297

Following the introduction of the new anti LGBTQ law, Russian police have been quick off the mark to raid gay clubs. The BBC has reported that several Moscow clubs were raided on Friday. Club goers had their passports/identity documents photographed. One attendee said he feared he would be "given a lengthy jail term." AP reports that a male sauna was also raided. Police stated merely that they were looking for drugs! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67601647 https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-nightclub-raids-crackdown-33e1b9a0110bf22dc2ebc7c42efe6335

As retirement approaches how many of us I wonder have considered a cruise or two to some exotic part of the world? The more so nowadays given that there are several all-gay cruises to pick from - if that idea floats your boat, as it were. Quite a few, I expect, if only the prices were not quite so exorbitant. Some years ago friends of mine based in New York with little experience of Europe saved up for a one-week gay cruise from Barcelona to somewhere else in the Mediterranean and loved it. Others never got the chance to get near their ship. Sadly the Germans who had booked a package tour from their home city to join a cruise due to start from New York all died when their chartered Concorde aircraft crashed after they had transferred on to it in Paris in July 2000. Death is one dreadful if extremely remote possibility in denying you the chance to make your cruise. Recent media reports tell of another less final but almost equally awful cruise experience. Last year a company named Life at Sea advertised a three-year round the world cruise on board a smallish-sized ship limited to around 1,000 passengers. According to National Public Radio, the cheapest inside berth for a single passenger was US$196,000 this to include almost everything on the cruise. Move up to the 7th deck with a balcony and The Guardian reported it would set you back $562,000. Unlke most long cruises, this one would not pick up and let off passengers en route for shorter cruises. You had to sign up for the full three years. One American lady started out thinking this had to be a scam. But she had her attorney go through all the paperwork and the background of the company. She was more than satisfied. Another American, a former flight attendant from Florida, also loved the idea of three years around the world and also paid her 30% deposit. The balance became due in monthly payments starting one month prior to sailing. She then got rid of her house, put most of her belongings into long-term storage and prepared to set out for the start of her dream of a lifetime. The two accounts I have quoted have different start ports - one Miami, the other Istanbul - but in the light of what happened that's rather immaterial. The flight attendant sent her four small cases in advance to Miami. Days later the cruise company informed her the cruise had been rescheduled to start in The Bahamas. And just a few days after that the information came that the cruise was cancelled in its entirety! Some passengers had already flown to Istanbul ready to pick up the ship there. The company has promised to refund all deposits and the additional expenses of getting to the departure point/s. And the first lady claims some of the money has already been returned. But how do you suddenly reclaim three years of your life that you had assumed would be seeing the world on a semi-luxury liner? It seems the company, which is quite well established, had intended to purchase a 20-year old vessel named AIDA aura in late September before making cosmetic changes prior to the scheduled departure under a new name the MV Lara. Sometihng clearly happened in the negotiations for the ship was eventually sold to another company. Life at Sea had originally planned to refit one of its own vessels but opted instead to purchase the larger one. Ah! The best laid plans! Even so, despite all the hand-wringing, breast-beating, the angst, the resignations etc., Life at Sea has not given up. It is already accepting bookings for next year's 3-year cruise. Whether that will be on a luxury liner or a small dinghy remains to be seen. Oddlly, whereas I would have been near incandescent with rage, the former flight attendant has accepted everything remarkably calmly. She still has plans to travel, although on shorter trips. "It won't be the same as the round the world trip," she says, "but it will be my own adventure." Good luck, Madam! https://www.lifeatseacruises.com https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215569569/life-at-sea-3-year-cruise-around-the-world-called-off#:~:text=This 3-year cruise around,leaving passengers in the lurch&text=via Getty Images-,When the Life at Sea cruise line failed to purchase,in November began to unravel.&text=They were promised the world. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/01/half-million-dollars-three-year-cruise-ship-possessions-liberating

I did eventually enrol in the 5-year membership. The cost was in a small way reduced by the perks since I travelled a great deal (until covid, that is). But when notice of the change was provicded at the end of July, I panicked. I could not easily get 500,000 to extend my membership through for the extra 15 years and ended up borrowing cash from a relative. I did go down to the Elite office where I insisted i see the membership manager. I gave her an earful about how the new regulations should only apply to new members. Sheepishly she agreed but said she could do nothing about it! So I prepared the papers for the 15-year extension, but then never had to submit them as my original benefits continue for another 18 months. Now that i am travelling quite a lot again and my Asian flights are all in economy class, I enjoy the freebies - the airport transfers, priority airport pass, lounge access, getting my free cart rides from the gates, 90-day reporting (rarely required now) just by dropping off my passport on Sathorn etc. - even though I know I could still get all that and would save lots without the Elite card. I guess one concern I do have is that I have only a tiny pension and for retirement now would basically have to lock away 800,000. At least that is the present amount. With rumours having been flying around for months, are the retirement visas limits also in line for a change? Absolutely no idea, but i do not want to take that chance. Whether I renew the Elite membership will depend on whether I stay in Thailand or not. Increasingly I am starting to consider other options.

It's total PR B/S. Ikea has had a city centre store in Hong Kong for several decades!

Although @Moses has come in for a bit of criticism in recent weeks for other issues, he does run the Siam Roads site which provides excellent guides in many cities around Asia. Presently there seem to be three guides in Bangkok and all get very good testimonials from those who have hired them. The guides have fixed daily and evening rates, can take you to all the known and several less-known sights in and around Bangkok. are not avaiable for sex but know and can take you to almost all the gay venues. Not sure of the cost and it seems to vary according to city/country. Plus naturally you pay all the guide's expenses. But I expect overall it's probably less expensive that paying the daily off fees and daily tips to a boy from a bar. Others may now more. https://siamroads.com

There was a thread or two on this some months ago after the Thai Elite people announced major changes to the programme. The original programme had several membership levels, the cheapest of which was a 5-year card for 500,000 Baht. Near the start of covid when strict quarantine requirements were introduced, there was a rumour that you could return to Thailand more easily with an Elite card. Not sure how true that was but it resulted in a jump in membership applications. So the price was quickly raised to 600,000! One of the benefits of the original card was that members could extend by 15 years for payment of another 500,000. So 1 million for 20 years - effectively 50,000 per year. But unlike retirement visas this was all cash out and non refundable. For the original memberships, there were several perks. Frequent travellers got up to 24 free airport limousine trips annually to and from the airport, concierge service at the airports and access to airport lounges. Great for some; lousy for most. For whatever reason - perhaps partly a result of Immigration having upped those opting for annual remittances to 800,000, more rich Russians and Chinese wanting long term visas, etc. - more retirees also started looking seriously at the card, even though it was never intended as a retirement visa-type option. It was one of Thaksin's programmes in the early 2000s to lure the rich to vacation regularly in Thailand! It had never taken off and the programme lost tons of cash. Around 2015 there were rumours the programme would be cancelled. But demand suddenly picked up in a big way. As a result, at the end of July all card holders were given three weeks notice of major changes to the programme. It was being completely revamped but no-one at Thai Elite was prepared to say what this meant in cash terms. All that was known was that the option to renew for 15 years was being withdrawn. The following Monday, I understand, there was a near riot at the Elite office on Sathorn with dozens of foreigners screaming at staff! It was certainly realised that prices would be going up and not unnaturally those already in the programme voiced their view that the new prices and more expensive perks should only apply to new and not existing members. End result, two things. Many existing members did immediately pay for the extra 15 years even though their original membership might still have had 3 or 4 years to run. Then on the deadline day - seriously, the very last day for renewing at the old levels - Thai Elite did a total about turn. Existing members were advised by email all their benefits of the original cards would remain for their duration. No need to renew until three months prior to expiry. In other words, a typical Thai screw-up! The new Thai Elite programme is certainly much more expensive and vastly less attractive for retirement purposes to all other than those with pots of cash. The cost of a new basic 5-year card has risen to 900,000. A 10-year card is 1.5 million, A 15-year card is 2.5 million and 20 years is 5 million (although allegedly the 20 year programme is limited to 100 per year and is only by invitation - whatever that really means! It does provide the member with 1 free domestic flight per year, 1 night hotel stay per year - and various other benefits that anyone who can pay that amount of cash would neither want nor need!). But to jerk up the cost from 1 million to 5 million for 20 years is a total rip-off in my view. It's now way too late to enrol in the original scheme. So I suggest it is not something potential retirees will ever want to consider -

Robert Morley always seemed to me to be a bit of a buffoon, but perhaps that's more a result of the parts he was given. The critic Leonard Maltin described him as "particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag"! He was highly acnowleged for his London stage roles before he started being cast in movies. He was apparently offered a knighthood in 1975 but like several other personalities (David Bowie, John Cleese of Monty Python fame, scientist Stephen Hawking, actor Glenda Jackson) he declined the honour.

Wonder why they decided on World Water Festival. A Festival with the same name already exists in Kumamoto, Japan.

Even had he known about the Plan which we now know his Defence Forces were well aware of in detail a year in advance, it would no doubt have been difficult for him to do much about it. His main goal throughout his Prime Ministership has very obviously been the prevention of the creation of a Palestinian state. He is the one who insisted on letting Hamas have its own way in Gaza deliberately to reduce the authority of the Palestinian Authority. Once the present hostilities are over, whatever the result, he will no doubt be desperate to cling on to power. Hopefully Israeli citizens will call him to account and his days in government will be numbered.

Agreed. No one can deny that homophobia was pretty widespread before that particular version of the Bible was published. In England and Wales (before they were joined by Scotland and Northern Ireland), the Buggery Act of 1533 was passed. The Act defined buggery as an unnatural act against the will of God and man. Same sex sexual activity was thereafter punishable by death. Interesting, though, that when the crowns of Scotland and England were united in 1603 with King James VI of Scotland becoming also King James 1 of England and Wales, it was well known that although married he was homosexual and enjoyed the company and favours of a wide coterie of handsome young men, particularly the Dukes of Buckingham and Lenox and the Earl of Somerset. Historian Michael B. Young described him as "the most prominent homosexual figure in the early modern period." Yet James wrote a well-known book in which he railed against the sin of homosexuality! Kings were clearly above the law as James died aged 58 after suffering a stroke. The law was changed in 1868 to abolish the death penalty in favour of a long term in prison. It was under this law that Oscar Wilde was convicted at the end of the century. I believe the purpose of the film is not to suggest that homosexuality suddenly appeared in 1946, but that the word first appeared in a translation of The Bible in that particular year. This gave the conservative movement and Evangelicals a name to hang their loathing of the LGBTQ community. Interesting perhaps to note that the Greek word arsenokoitoi was correctly translated as far back as Martin Luther's 1534 translation in German. That and several future German and several other European language publications of The Bible translated the Leviticus sentence as "Man shall not lie with young boys (knabenschander - a word acknowledged to mean boys beween 8 and 12 yo) as he does with a woman, for it is an abomination." Moving foward to Leviticus 20:13, again the word is translated as "young boys". In Corinthians, yet again arsenokoitoi was at that time translated as "child molesters." Further, it was the Germans who created the word homosexual in 1862 but they did not use it in the publications of their Bibles. It's surely reasonably clear that the translators of the 1946 version in the USA deliberately inserted "homosexual" to further their own conservative agenda. As such, they altered the text of the most widely read book of faith with deliberate intent to stoke decades of homophobia.

A new documentary has just opened in New York, London and Los Angeles. 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Cultures has as its premise the mistranslation of just one word in a 1946 publication of The Bible - in 1 Corinthians 6:9. It has long fuelled the Christian anti-gay movement that continues to thrive today, particularly with the Christian Right. The word "homosexual" first appears in translations of The Bible in 1946 when the Greek word malakoi was confused by scholars with a compound Greek word arsenokoitai. The former is defined as someone who is effeminate and leading a lazy, decadent life, whereas the latter basically means "male bed". While this could be interpreted as a man bedding a man, scholars then believed it also referred to abusive predatory behaviour and pederasty. When this version of the Bible was published, one gay seminarian took issue with the translations. He commenced a correspondence with the Head of the Translation Committee. As a result, the Committee agreed that there had indeed been a mistranslation. When the next publication of The Bible appeared in 1971, the Committee had changed the word "homosexuals" to "sexual perverts." By then, though, hundreds of millions of Bibles with the wrong translation had been circulated and purchased with the result that conservatives had had plenty of time to band together to push their anti-gay agenda. The Guardian article continues - The documentary [focuses] on the academia and research, featuring interviews with language experts and biblical scholars to provide context not just for the mistranslated verse, but the other “clobber” verses that have been cited by the Christian right as a condemnation of homosexuality. They explore Sodom and Gomorrah, and the historical context behind the Leviticus verse denouncing when “a man lies with a male as with a woman”; scholars believe the verse is not alluding to homosexuality, but to ritual pagan prostitution . . . The documentary, which opens this week, first premiered in 2022 and has already won 23 festival awards. But Roggio [producer and director Sharon Roggio] admitted that the film was struggling to get wider distribution. Even before its premiere, the documentary received a lot of backlash in the form of conservative articles, radio shows, videos and sermons all attempting to debunk the research – despite some never having watched the documentary, Roggio said . . . for gay Christians like Roggio, this mistranslation means everything. It means that “no one can dictate your relationship with God,” she said. “We’ve been told how we have to live as Christians, by putting away our identity, a part of ourselves. But you can totally be gay and Christian.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/01/christian-homophobia-bible-mistranslation-1946-documentary

I forgot to add that one of the books that has most affected me during my many decades living in Asia is Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by renowned British journalist and historian William Shawcross. Shawcross has impeccable credentials apart from the fact that his father Lord Shawcross was the lead British prosecutor at the WWII Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal. I read the original version when it was first published. The 2002 revised edition is fractionally less critical of Kissinger and Nixon but still a masterful piece of reporting and a devastating account of a foreign policy disaster. Of the revised edition, The Boston Globe wrote, "Remarkable and compelling . . . FIrst and foremost an American political thriller . . . where American officials spied on each other, lied to each other and falsified reports . . . ALL TOO REAL!" The New York Times wrote, "Sideshow excels . . . it has the sweep and shadows of a spy novel as it portrays the surreal world of power severed from morality." https://www.amazon.com/Sideshow-Kissinger-Nixon-Destruction-Cambodia/dp/081541224X

I mentioned Ben Hur recently. Although I was then very young, I just did not like his acting much, and that increased over the years so that I avoided most of his movies. He seemed to me such a stilted actor without the fluency of movement and speech that all major actors have. Decades later when he had all but given up movies (or they had given up him!) and before his dementia took hold, he appeared on the London stage in 1999 with his wife reading excerpts from something or other. The British critic Sheridan Morley who was related to several major British actors - his father was Robert Morley, Noel Coward was his godfather, his grandmother was Dame Gladys Cooper and one of his cousins is Dame Joanna Lumley whom many recall with much fondness from her appearances in the Absolutely Fabulous TV series - loathed the Hestons' performance. He wrote in his review that Heston's performance was "monumentally terrible" and that his wife was"suffereing from a talent by-pass." He then added that the management should recompense the patrons for having to sit through the performance during which, he added, the most moving thing about Heston on stage had been "his hairpiece." Ironically this disastrous review came at a time when Heston was publicly excoriating his felllow American actors for their reluctance to appear in live theatre, blaming it on their arrogance, greed and fear of bad reviews. Clearly bad timing!

This again is where some retired expats could easily help. Not perhaps in the actual teaching of English but in leading conversation classes at different levels of proficiency. This would surely also help Thai students thinking for themselves, a facility which seems sadly lacking in the Thai education system.

I am fortunate that for overnight flights I am able to treat myself to business class. With a window seat, there is usually a small compartment for personal belongings which it would be almost impossible for a thief to access without waking you. Best of all are the Qatar Q Suites which have doors in addition to small compartments and I am certain the excellent and attentive staff would recognise if someone was trying to access your little suite. I only had one problem with Qatar, but it was totally my fault. I had stupidly left my iPad in the suite on my return to BKK. It was quickly found and back in my possession a couple of days later.

So now Russia has gone even further in its actions against the LGBT community. On Thursday a landmark ruling by the country's Supreme Court declared what it terms "the international LGBTQ movement" an extremist movement and banned all its activities in the country. The landmark ruling on Thursday is set to further erode the rights of Russia’s LGBTQ community, who have faced an intensifying crackdown in recent years, as President Vladimir Putin seeks to shore up his image as defender of traditional moral values against the liberal West . . . Under Russian legislation, an organisation designated as extremist faces immediate dissolution, and its leaders face charges of up to 10 years in prison, according to the UN Human Rights Chief . . . In recent years, the Kremlin has introduced or expanded on a raft of anti-LGBTQ laws, a conservative shift that has intensified following the invasion of Ukraine. Presidential elections are due next year, with Putin widely expected to extend his rule. In July this year, Russia passed a law banning doctors from conducting gender reassignment surgeries, except in cases related to treating congenital physiological anomalies, in children. In December 2022, Putin signed into law a bill that expanded a ban on so-called LGBTQ “propaganda” in Russia, making it illegal for anyone to promote same-sex relationships or suggest that non-heterosexual orientations are “normal.” The package of amendments signed by Putin included heavier penalties for anyone promoting “non-traditional sexual relations and/or preferences,” as well as gender transition. The new law was an extension of legislation introduced in 2013, which banned the dissemination of LGBTQ-related information to minors. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/30/europe/russian-supreme-court-outlaws-the-lgbtq-community-as-extremist/index.html

That is what I have requested in my Thai will lodged with my lawyer and my partner. Please remember instructions on what is to be done with our bodies must be in writing and witnessed. If not, I believe the practice is to have the body sent back to your country presumably at the expense of your estate (but please correct me if that is not the case).

So we now now that israel knew of the blueprint for the detailed Hamas plans a full year before its ghastly attacks, yet disrgarded them as "aspirational" and :imaginary". The plans were exactly as happened a year later. Israeli Intelligence even code-named the attack plans "The Jericho Wall." The senior officials in the IDF just did not believe Hamas had the ability to carry out the plan. Prime Minister Netanyahu was apparently warned "again and again and again" about the iklihood of such an attack. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/12/01/nyt-israel-intelligence-hamas-attack-blueprint-ac360-vpx.cnn