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>The Kairos Palestine II document, fully titled “A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide” (November 2025), presents itself as a prophetic cry from Palestinian Christians amid suffering. It accuses Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid, framing the Jewish state as a racist, supremacist project rooted in 1948’s Nakba. It calls for BDS, sanctions, boycotts, and the rejection of Zionism as a “theological distortion and moral corruption”.

>Yet its theological framing, historical claims, and political assertions raise serious concerns for Christians committed to biblical fidelity, historical accuracy, and the rejection of antisemitism.

>This author offers a critique of Kairos II so you may understand the serious issues with it. This article exposes factual distortions and theological misapplications embedded within the document. It also addresses and debunks the accusation that Israel is committing genocide, and reaffirms Israel’s historic, legal, and biblical rights to the land.

Read the comprehensive response here: https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2026/07/24/kairos-ii-a-theological-and-historical-critique/

I have a 3+ year old Dell notebook, now surplus to requirements, installed Ubuntu 26.04 and speedtest showx the WiFi much slower then when it was running Windoze 11.

Same WiFi (home) network etc.

Any ideas on tuning/fixing/diagnosing?

MTU is the same as it was on Windows (1500) and is correct for router/ISP

FYI Dual-band 2.4GHz / 5 GHz -- using 5 Ghz on a gigabit fibre connected ISP, 5 metres from the router

WiFi 802.11a/b/g

Wi-Fi 4 (WiFi 802.11n)

Wi-Fi 5 (WiFi 802.11ac)

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$ sudo lshw -C network

*-network

description: Ethernet interface

<snip>

*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter

vendor: Qualcomm Atheros

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

logical name: wlp2s0

version: 31

serial: 8c:c8:4b:72:79:87

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=7.0.0-28-generic firmware=WLAN.TF.2.1-00021-QCARMSWP-1 ip=192.168.1.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

resources: irq:147 memory:91000000-911fffff

$ lspci -nnk | grep -A3 Network

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0042] (rev 31)

Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:1810]

Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci

Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

$ ifconfig

<snip>

wlp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

inet 192.168.1.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255

inet6 fe80::8cf6:5a61:5fb8:ebd0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>

inet6 24<snip>:b182:e4dd:7365:5d84 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>

inet6 24<snip>:da52:9114:3474:b164 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>

ether 8c:c8:4b:72:79:87 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)

RX packets 1253310 bytes 473716208 (473.7 MB)

RX errors 0 dropped 2 overruns 0 frame 0

TX packets 1840255 bytes 2516850517 (2.5 GB)

TX errors 0 dropped 13 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

$ iw dev wlp2s0 link

Connected to 9a:62:8b:74:0b:bc (on wlp2s0)

SSID: farnet5

freq: 5200.0

RX: 165234327 bytes (183662 packets)

TX: 47092571 bytes (67232 packets)

signal: -65 dBm

rx bitrate: 325.0 MBit/s VHT-MCS 7 80MHz short GI VHT-NSS 1

bss flags: short-slot-time

dtim period: 1

beacon int: 100

$ nmcli -f IN-USE,SSID,BSSID,CHAN,FREQ,RATE,SIGNAL,SECURITY device wifi list

IN-USE SSID BSSID CHAN FREQ RATE SIGNAL SECURITY

* farnet5 9A:62:8B:74:0B:BC 40 5200 MHz 270 Mbit/s 69 WPA2 WPA3

https://preview.redd.it/3qh7nx1uspeh1.png?width=645&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c7714761a70e9f6ccb767448d9bc4a62ce7b53d

Pro Palestinian Dictionary:

A war Hamas started in 2008 --> "Genocide"

A war Hamas started in 2012 --> "Genocide"

A war Hamas started in 2014 --> "Genocide"

A war Hamas started in 2023 --> "Genocide"

A war Hezbollah started for 11 months and now paying the price --> "Genocide"

Palestinian Population Boom for 75 years --> "Genocide"

USA vs ISIS in Musol 10k killed --> "????"

Total of 400k killed in Afghanistan and Iraq --> "????"

A precise pager attack against Hezbollah combatants during war --> "Terror"

8000+ indiscriminate rockets of Hezbollah towards Israel since 8.10 including bombing children playing soccer --> "???? "

Building hit by Israeli rockets with many "mysterious" secondary explosions --> "civilian building"

A war Arabs started in 1948 and lost --> "Nakba"

A war Arabs started in 1956, 1967 and lost --> "Massacre"

A Jewish state with 2 Million arab Muslims with full equal rights - "Apartheid"

Arab Muslim states with Zero Jews - silence

Israel - Gaza border --> "Open air prison"

Egpyt - Gaza border --> silence

Eight month old Israeli baby abducted during ceasefire -> "Prisoner of war"

Palestinians who murdered Jews in the streets and convicted by trial--> "Hostages"

Palestinians who planned suicide bombings and caught by IDF --> "Hostages"

Hamas atrocities own body cams footage --> "Israeli propaganda"

Tons of Videos of terror tunnels --> "Israeli Propaganda"

Tons of videos of Hamas in hijacking humanitarian aid and killing Palestinians --> "Israeli Propaganda"

Videos of killed children from Syria/ Starving children from Yemen/ showing videos of the "after" with no context --> Not Propaganda

Hamas recruited underage palestinians --> "Children"

Palestinian children who murder Jews in the streets --> "Children"

Kidnapped Hostage rescue mission in an urban territory surrounded by armed Hamas in civilians clothes and *some* innocents -> "Massacre"

Real Massacre at a music festival and kibbutzim --> "Resistance"

A Palestinian Before/After he launches a Terror attack killed by Anti Terror squad in the west bank --> "Murder"

A Palestinian used as human shield killed in an urban warfare --> "Murder"

A Building with martyrdom teaching books used by Hamas to fire rockets --> "School"

A "Refugee organisation" hijacked to be used as a terror organisation --> UNRWA

Area used by Hamas to fire rockets --> "Refugee camp"

A Building with terror tunnel underneath, used as Hamas HQ --> "Hospital"

A Building where a Palestinian family live with terror tunnel and weapons cache under the little girl bed --> "Civilian building"

Palestinian who works in a "school" and holding hostage in his home for 7 months --> "Teacher"

A Palestinian who video live massacre on 7.10 while families screaming in their homes --> "Journalist"

A Palestinian holding hostages in their homes --> "Innocent civilians"

Palestinians participated in 7.10 --> "Innocent civilians "

Palestinians abusing women hostages in the streets on 7.10 --> "Innocent civilians"

Palestinians kidnapping hostages in 7.10 --> "Innocent civilians"

Palestinians raping women on 7.10 --> "Innocent civilians"

Hamas in civilian clothes --> "Innocent civilians"

Hamas in Journalist jacket --> "Innocent civilians"

Hamas in Aid Worker clothes --> "Innocent civilians"

https://www.sawater.com.au/water-and-the-environment/south-australias-water-sources/reservoir-data

Some good news... much better water supply than last year.

Hopefully the rains continue through winter as we come to another dry summer.

We were in Canberra last week (Thu 28th May) as part of the Australian Christian Freedom Index (ACFI) team that presented the report to Parliament.

This project was a joint effort of Australian Christian Lobby, Australian Family Coalition, Canberra Declaration, Citizen GO, Family Voice, Human Rights Law Alliance; and endorsed by Anglican, Catholic, and other senior Church leaders

The Australian Christian Freedom Index is the first systematic audit of its kind — measuring the legislative, institutional, social and cultural pressures on Christian belief and expression across Australia. Drawing on documented cases, a review of the statute books across nine jurisdictions, and the responses of more than 10,000 Australians, the inaugural 2025 (published May 2026) report maps where freedom is being eroded, which institutions are most at risk, and what can be done about it.

Quote:

>Almost two and a half centuries after its arrival on our shores, Christianity remains Australia’s largest faith, comprising more than 11 million adherents.1 But in the 2020s, it is also a religion under pressure. The statistics and stories featured in this inaugural report of the Australian Christian Freedom Index (ACFI) put that reality in the spotlight. They also serve as a reminder that religious freedom is a fading star in the constellation of liberties that illuminate nations like Australia.

>Freedom of religion is inseparable from other freedoms like speech, conscience and association. Each of these is a facet of the same human impulse to pursue truth and order one’s life accordingly. The protection of religious freedom is not a sectarian goal but a prerequisite for a truly free society. And while Christianity cannot claim special treatment as a minority religion in Australia, it does deserve equal protection, not least because the freedoms at stake are, in no small part, a Christian gift to the world.

>Australia remains a free country relative to most nations—but not so if we compare it to the Australia whose founders, in the Constitution’s Preamble, described themselves as a people “humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God.

Key points:

• 40 documented cases of Christians penalised for their beliefs
• 74 laws passed Federal or State in Australia since 2000 restricting Christian freedoms
• 9 jurisdictions audited — 6 states, 2 territories plus the Commonwealth
• 10,808 survey respondents
• 92% of respondents say it’s riskier today to affirm Christian beliefs publicly than 5 years ago
• Stage 5 reached on Brobbel’s internationally recognised 8-stage persecution scale

We are at level 5/8 (physical attack) on the Brobbel Persecution Scale where 8 = martyrdom; which is crazy for a western nation.

Please pray for Australia !!