The Pete Quiñones Show - Episode 1317: Operation 'Cast Thy Bread' w/ Thomas777

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

58 MinutesPG-13Thomas777 is a revisionist historian and a fiction writer.We take a break from the 30 Years War series and talk about the Zionist Operation "Cast Thy Bread."Radio Free Chicago - T777 and J BurdenThomas777 MerchandiseThomas' Buy Me a CoffeeThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas' WebsiteThomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Pete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

If you want to get the show early and ad-free, head on over to the piquinones show.com. There, you can choose from where you wish to support me. Now listen very carefully. I've had some people ask me about this, even though I think on the last ad, I stated it pretty clearly. If you want an RSS feed, you're going to have to subscribe through substack or through Patreon. You can also subscribe on my website, which is right there. Gumroad, and what's the other one?

Subscribe Star. And if you do that, you will get access to the audio file. So head on over to the Pekignano Show.com. You'll see all the ways that you can support me there. And I just want to thank everyone. It's because of you that I can put out the amount of material that I do. I can do what I'm doing with Dr. Johnson on 200 years together and everything else. the things that Thomas and I are doing together on continental philosophy.

It's all because of you. And yeah, I mean, I'll never be able to thank you enough. So thank you. The Pekingona Show.com. Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone. Back to the Pekanino Show. Thomas is back and we are going to take a break from the 30 Years War series.

And Thomas has some thoughts and he wants to talk about Israel today. So take it away. Thomas. We've discussed Israel before in dedicated series, more than one, I believe, and the Jewish state and its origins and its founding mythologies and the ideological imperatives that gave rise to the Balfour Declaration and Zionism becoming a significant global political force. I write extensively on that, and it's a major aspect of my manuscript, which I'm pleased to announce is almost completed. However, there's a subject matter within that broader sort of pastiche of factors that is neglected, I think, and not just by regime adjacent media and mainstream academe. This was on my mind not just because of this foolish talk emanating from the White House about Iran and the ongoing attempt at a subversion of the revolutionary government there.

But about some months after the 12 days war, you know there's this um sort of performative air war i i guess that the trump administration claims was targeting the iranian nuclear program which i which i don't think exists in the way that is alleged by this administration or the regime generally but that aside Kameney, Supreme Leader Kameney, he made a speech and in it he talked about the Zionist plan for greater Israel and the Levant, which is essentially the total ethnic cleansing of large swaths of Syria as well as Gaza, as well as the Levant, and the replacement of the indigenous

element with racial Jews as defined by the Zionist state. Incidentally, the Zionist state defines who is a Jew in explicitly racial terms. It's a mirror of what the Nuremberg laws were,

which is significant because that's basically without precedent within Jewish life. Okay? And that's what Kameney said was true. I mean, even if you don't accept the revolutionary government's position on other things,

that's accurate. What he described? And that's one of the reasons why the sort of direct action that IDF engages in seems outside of the scope of ordinary military activity. even when there's a strong ethnocectarian animosity present within the conflict paradigm. And the hyper-racialism of Israel goes back to its founding. And I'm going to discuss that discrete instances of open racial warfare that constituted a founding aspect of the military campaign that established a Jewish state. But it's also inductively, what one can extrapolate from that is it's part of a wider integral paradigm of Zionist activity, political, military, and sociological.

That's the only way to understand it. and Israel was normalizing to some degree in the 1990s, which is when and why Rabin was murdered, and Israel for all predical purposes became a one-party state. But, you know, the, when I say, and when people like Ernst & Olte and like Norman Finkelstein, and others have discussed Israel as being a totally abnormal state. This is an aspect of what they're talking about. There's a dialectical aspect as well that relates to the same nucleus of historical causes that gave rise to the Soviet Union and the Third Reich.

But it's also an outlier because it's the only, is the only state of its kind that has taken on this nakedly racialist, nakedly biologically racialist imperative as an absolute and unconditional aspect of its historical mission and its ideological praxis. And I go as far as to say that it's essential to the constitution of the state conceptually and actually. And that's also one of the major problems that is emergent because that kind of secular hyper-racialized Zionism,

nobody really believes in that anymore. And going back even to the, you know, the, the 1947-48 war, which was really a massive Rossin-Cree. It was a massive racial cleansing operation by Haganah and the Zionist International. But what's commonly, you know, called the 1948 war, there was a problem with some of these outlying territories and greater Palestine that had key strategic value, but that were populated almost exclusively by the ultra-Orthodox,

and these people had absolutely no interest in joining some racialist crusade, you know, against their neighbors. And shuffling populations around, I believe, is something that, the leaked state's going to rely more and more on, literally uprooting ultra-Orthodox populations and shoving them into racialized battle spaces that they themselves have curated. It's essentially forced these people to fight or die and thereby try to radicalize them. I don't think that's going to work. But that's one of the things.

that's going to be emergent i believe it's you know um you know to be clear that is i'm about to get into this isn't hyperbole i mean this is this uh we're talking about the factual record um i admittedly present historical analyses and inductive terms i've had the thought that it might be because i trained as a lawyer but i think that's more, if we're talking about ideological praxis, I think that's really the only way to approach it. And not in polemical terms, but you've really got to start with

how ideological imperatives are expressed and implemented and go from there in understanding political behavior, especially at war. and especially in discussing a state that is such an outlier like Israel. So one of the examples I've been deeply researching lately was a Zionist operation. It was implemented by Haganah, but then it was continued by IDF. Haganah was the primary armed element of the Zionist international.

like they basically jews under arms in in in in Palestine hagana was their primary organized force hagana became the idea of okay but just to be clear from april to December of 1948 hagana slash idf they implemented what was called operation cast thy bread this was a top secret biological warfare operation whereby among other things Higana they use typhoid bacteria they isolated to contaminate the drinking water in the wells of settlements that they wish to ethnically cleanse within the coveted within the battle space that the primary battle space constituted Palestinian territory that was coveted by the Zionist cadre but operations cast thy bread came to include neighboring states populated by people identified

racial hostiles and it also had the further effect of preventing refugees who survived the ethnic cleansing operation from returning to captured villages and also as well it made it difficult for Arab relief armies which arrived primarily from Jordan later on to make use of extent water supplies, which in the Near East to this day is a major concern. This operation resulted in pandemic illnesses, at least locally, beyond the initial attrition that killed a lot of people. In the final months, IDF gave orders to expand the biological warfare campaign into Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. But for some reason, this was not carried out.

I've got my own thoughts on that, and I'll get into that as we go on in this topical discussion. Now, when this started coming to light, the response from the design is political and military element, first and foremost from a man named Abba Iban. He was the main representative of the Jewish agency for Palestine, which was one of the primary NGOs involved in the settlement enterprise of bringing European Jewry to the Middle East. He went on to serve as the Israeli Foreign Affairs minister, the education minister, the deputy prime minister. He was ambassador in the United States.

He ended up, he was their first permanent representative, Israel's first permanent representative of the UN. He was VP of the UN General Assembly. This was a big deal. And it's not actually, in those days, the UN actually had quite a bit of authority or, cloud rather as much as an iGO can he insinuated himself into the u.n for a reason but the official statement from you know idf hagana authorities as well as the political cadre then in control of the nascent zine estate was this was anti-semitic incitement and an arab propaganda you know, this was in response to the fact that in July, the Palestinian Arab Hire Committee, who on the ground had pretty good relations with the British military contentionment

that was in the process of disengaging and leaving, they reported that there was wide-scale use of bacteriological warfare that was killing people en masse. And that's how this came into the attention of the General Assembly and of the global newswire generally. Now, what came out subsequently, owing in part to some Cold War intrigues, among other things, Hagan's chief operations officer was Yigaliadin. Egalia din in 1947, 48, the last known activity in this regard, I believe, was February 1948. He directed a microbiology student named Alexander Kenyon. Alexander Kenyon went on to become the director of the Israeli Institute for Biological Research.

I'll get into what that institution does in a minute. But he, Yadine as chief operations officer of Higana, he deployed Kenyan and the future Israeli president, Yerran Katsir, who also was a disease expert and biologist. he ordered them to begin researching the potential of chemical and biological weapons, what their potential was, how these things could be devised to target discrete populations, how friendlies could be potentially inoculated if a weapon couldn't be engineered that was splendidly devised to only affect targeted, hostiles and he had them go to Europe and see if they could make contact with ethnic Jews on both sides of the Iron Curtain who had expertise in this regard now Ket Sears I mentioned he he was a biophysicist that's what his actual discipline was and a big man he went out to

become a big man in the Israeli Labor Party and again he was president of Israel And Israel, the real power of government is, you know, in the prime minister, but the president and national security affairs has a fair amount of authority. But what ultimately Kenyan and kits, they formed a unit that came to be called Hemet Biet, which was an operational bio-warfare unit of the ID. Haganah, then IDF. But the Israeli Institute for Biological Research, it's clear that what they were organized to do and what they continue to do to this day is the development of chemical and biological weapons, as well as developing vaccines and animals and countermeasures against. such weapons um this came to light the biggest uh espionage uh scandal in israel's history was the case of marcus clingberg marcus clingberg was the highest ranking spy for the soviet union and warsaw pact ever ever caught in israel he ended up becoming the uh

Israeli Institute of Biological Research is deputy scientific director. He was this Polish Jew who was a committed communist, and he managed, you know, the Soviets were very good at this. He managed to insinue it himself, not just into Israeli scientific academic academic dean, but very much into politics. And not only was he the director of the IIBR, but he became head of the department of epidemiology. for most of the 70s.

He was finally arrested in 1983. He was convicted in a secret military court, and Israel didn't even acknowledge that they had him, that he'd been caught, they'd been convicted until years after the fact. He was quite literally sent down a hole. Now, if you know anything about the Soviet Union and some of their priorities as regards to WMD,

in the era of true strategic parity the Soviets just like we were they were looking for alternative means to wage war that would take nuclear weapons off the table other than as a tactical

force multiplier or last resort and they convened what was called biopreparat. Famously, there was the anthrax accident in one of the Soviet Union's closed cities where weaponized anthrax escaped and it killed a few dozen people. And Yeltsin was the local party commissar and they claimed that some sort of outbreak of

of salmonella had uh or something and they had over it said it was tainted food but clingberg it wasn't an accident that the soviets were so interested in i mean the soviets were constantly spying in israeli because they were at war with them but there's a reason why there was such a dedicated effort in this regard. And in the final phase of the Cold War, post-strategic parody,

bio-weapons and biow warfare potential, became a matter of very serious study. Okay? And so in the 90s, when the Klingberg affair came to light, this all but proved what had long been suspected, that Israel had a massive bioweapons program that was tailored for the purpose of devising viral and bacterial agents

with an emphasis on diseases that could target populations based on genetic factors. I believe, too, this is one reason and why there's an internal racial hierarchy within Israel. It's not just social prejudice why so many Zionists are down on their Ethiopian brethren, and they look down on a lot of Jews, indigenous to the region. It's because they've got a hyper-racialized view of political ontology,

but also I think their entire military political, sociopolitical conditioning revolves around quantifiable and calculable racial criteria. And the Ashkenazim are a genetically insular population. If you see where I'm going with this, which again, it's a macabre subject matter, but this is the reality. in 1992 there was a plane crash in the netherlands LL flight 181862 among other cargo it was carrying

it was carrying cargo bound for the Israel Institute for biological research this cargo consignment included 190 liters of dimethos methyl phosphonate, which among other uses, admittedly, it can be used in the synthesis of seren nerve gas. And it's scheduled for that purpose under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

And obviously, this created something of a scandal. The claim from Tel Aviv was that this material was not. toxic and it was simply being employed to test filters that the in within military gas masks that protect against chemical weapons particularly nerve agents which are notoriously difficult to develop countermeasures against and they claimed this was all above board and this was listed on the cargo manifest and if you know the airlines screwed that up somehow that has nothing to do with any sort of sinister behavior by the Institute or by the Israeli government.

The Dutch foreign ministry then went into damage control mode, like the Zionist lackeys they are and have been since, you know, since 1945. You know, and they began insisting that, oh, these quantities were far too small. for the preparation of a viable military useful nerve agent but you know that very well could be used for perfecting detection methods and countermeasures you know this led to this british journalist later in the 90s. I guess he's more of an intelligence writer. He's written a lot of exposés on

MI5 and things. But first and foremost, he's a journalist. But he published an article on the IBR, the Israeli Institute for Biological Research. And he said it doesn't look anything

like some academic research facility or even a very secure commercial or academic laboratory. He relayed that the facility is surrounded by a massive concrete wall topped with cutting-edge sensors and surveillance technology, armed guards patrol its perimeter 24-7, no aircraft are allowed to fly over the facility. It doesn't appear on any map. Inside the facility, nobody can move about,

absent the use of code words and constant presentation of visual identification. It's surrounded by an outer shell that utilizes bomb-proof doors that can only be opened by codes. The codes are changed every day. Every corridor inside is patrolled by armed guards. I mean, essentially, this place is as heavily defended as, as SAC NORAD. But you're supposed to believe that it's just a laboratory that deals in research chemicals and countermeasures

against, you know, poisoning and things. So you get the picture. Now, to be clear, how this came about in terms of deployment. In the main, there's two things we're going to talk about here. What I believe and what a lot of the evidence direct and circumstantial suggests is that the experience of the racial cleansing of Haifa is what really encouraged Higana, IDF, and earnest to start deploying bio-weapons at scale around Acre, in Acre, rather, and the suburbs. On May 3rd, 1948, Acre famously was a, you know, there was a Crusader castle there,

one of the last crusader garrisons. It was this, you know, renowned city for its cultural artifacts and things. That's believed to be the first loci where typhoid germs were deployed. This was substantiated by the Red Cross as well as British authorities. It's not just Arab documents and testimony. Israeli troops introduced poison, and they introduced the typhoid germs into wells in Aker and Ilebone in Galilee

leading to a severe outbreak. Aker was significant because it was to be allocated to a future Arab state vis-a-vis the UN partition plan for Palestine. It was heavily relied upon because its aqueduct for its water um so it was imperative that within the bound of rationality of sinus objectives that it be captured um the attack was carried out by the carmeli brigade of higana who were considered to be the spear point as it were of of jewish forces

Oriental Jews and Arabis Jews indigenous to the region they were generally charged with lesser mission orientations and they also were encouraged and permitted to loot and then when reports had come in about Higana

elements and IDF elements engaged in this kind of repeat and lawlessness, the claim would be that, well, these are just local militia men victimizing people or, oh, they're Arabs. You know, what, what language are they speaking? You know, it's very, it's very clear what the motivation was there in addition to just prejudice within the tribe of against its own non-ashganazim brethren. Probably the most successful in relative terms, early use of chemical weapons, was the village of Bat Masir was racially annihilated.

And subsequently, remaining refugees were murdered by way of the poisoned. water sources, which, among other things, again, precluded a return. And it required high investment to render these places livable again, but that's exactly what the Zion estate did, and replace the people they'd killed and expelled with their own kind. But what happened in Haifa that, in my opinion, led to this wide use of biological agents? I mean, make the mistake, this was an imperative that was going to be pursued anyway for reasons of ideological practice in Rossen-Krieg, which are synonymous. We're talking about the design estate. But operations in Haifa, Haifa is a port city.

And there's a fairly sizable contingent of British troops there. And as it became clear that, you know, ethnic cleansing was probable, was possible, if not probable, a lot of the affluent and literate people fled Haifa. The people who remained between 55 and 60,000 Palestinians, they were leaderless and there's a comparatively polytry number of Arab volunteers under arms. So they were essentially at the mercy of Jewish forces in 1948. and despite the presence of this British garrison, this is one of the most shameful episodes of the late British Empire.

They were charged of protecting the people there and from preventing a race war, essentially. They did absolutely nothing and let this go on. But the Higana IDF, they, drove the uh arabs from their homes and uh began forcing them towards the water and they positioned snipers so that no one could escape and then they began massively shelling this population of tens of thousands of people who were fleeing in terror literally funneling them so they could only run in one direction and then they began bombarding them with mortals

orders and just blowing them to pieces. The operation was co-named Miss Parium, which means scissors, indicating the idea of both a pincere and cutting the city off from the Palestinian hinterland as well as a surgical removal of the unwanted element. but this this caused international outcry especially because this British garrison although totally derelict in their duty they did constitute a cadre of credible witnesses to what happened and it was a very bad look um there was testimony about people being stampeded to death as their co-ethics were literally running for their lives and being blown to pieces by mortar rounds or having their brains blown out by snipers. You know, most of these people were not military age males. They were middle-aged and old folks or women and kids.

You know, so that means was a problem, especially, uh, You know, television wasn't yet ubiquitous or even common, but cameras are becoming ubiquitous, particularly in combat zones. You know, it, Haifa, you know, again, I mean, it was, as a port city was coveted, but the main, the main really the only objective was racial warfare. and the annihilation of the unwanted element based on biologically racial criteria. You know, again, that's not hyperbole, that's an arguable. I will, there was, to be fair, too, there were instances of British on the ground acting heroically. unfortunately that was the exception not the rule um there was a it's only really only in one area the first it was the oldest Palestinian neighborhood that had been built outside of the old

city's walls and it was also uh it was also where a lot of um noble and notable families hailed from including uh the husseinies and include you know the one of whom was grand mufti al-husseini who was a great man but uh sheikh jara is the neighborhood we're talking about um the local british commander did step in the instruction that came down to jewish forces at shak jara in uh april twenty fourth ninety forty eight was to occupy the neighborhood to destroy all its houses and you know annihilate or expel every every every non-jew the secretary of the Arab higher committee dr. Usain Khalidi he'd uh liaise with the British commander's troops and the commander the garrisoned confronted Haganah and was ordered his men to shoot the Jews if they tried to harm the Arab population. And with the exception to about 20 houses that Haganah managed to blow up or burn, that was it.

Because Higana immediately backed down in lieu of fighting the British Army, which goes to show, too, that these guys were just cowards who refused the to intervene in other locales, you know, um, and to be clear, this wasn't, this was the British army. This wasn't blue hats. It wasn't some stupid peacekeeping mission. This was the thin red line of the British Empire.

You know, and, uh, they'd also given a commitment. They'd committed to protecting these people by their own initiative. Just to be clear, you know, um, about the conditions on the ground. But it goes to show that, you know, when the British made it clear that they were going to defend the Arab population by force of arms, you know, Higana backed down. So this was a political decision by the so-called world community to let this happen, among other things.

that's not propaganda either when people victimized by the Zionist state, you know, issue forth that claim to be clear. But so there's a lot of reasons, including the fact that it wasn't clear if what happened in this community outside of the old city's walls, if this was going to become, a matter of standing doctrine to the remaining British troops on the ground if the ROE that the Crown handed down

was going to be to engage Higana IDF when they attempt to implement these ethnic cleansing operations, even if that wasn't even if the Jews had a totally free hand what happened at Haifa provoked global

outrage in America obviously the concern was that these era populations are going to be, you know, appropriated by the Soviet camp, which is exactly what happened, owing to the sort of unrestrained racial violence. So it was a perfect storm of incentives to go all in with the deployment of biological weapons. but again, I'm not suggesting that it was merely exigent circumstances within the bound of rationality of the objectives of Haganah. This would have been a matter of significant interest, and as they viewed it, military necessity regardless, developing a capability in this regard.

but it's you know again i this this is the best way to demonstrate the practice of zionism which again entails every aspect of jewish life and the zionist state um military political sociological this is the practice of zionism dedicated racial warfare based on biological biological criteria and that's not discussed enough. Well, when you take into consideration that they don't do DNA tests, they, you know, they've, I think they did at one point, but now it's basically, they do it through birth certificates, marriage certificates, synagogue records, old passports, letters from rabbis or Jewish organizations.

It really, that raises a lot of questions. Yeah. And I don't believe anything that comes out of Tel Aviv. They claim they stopped doing it after the, but at the same time, for right-to-return stuff, particularly with, say, this Ethiopian population that was claiming refugee status and right-to-return they're in. You know, they submitted, they submitted genetic. evidence. I mean, the way it plays out, like I said, it's pretty much exactly like the Nuremberg laws.

If you have a, you know, it's Jewish parentage that makes you a Jew. But it's like, okay, like, who's attesting to that? And plus two, I mean, there's, you can, you can tell. It really is an, there really is an Ashkenazim culture, you know, that's very insular. and sure there's a it's not as formal within the tribe as it once was early on in the Zionist enterprise I'm certain but it's make the mistake it's it's it's a it's biologically coded because there's there's nothing else to secular Zionism. It's this bizarre pastiche of dead language revival, Holocaust mythology,

racial supremacism. You know, it's not, that's one of the reasons why, I mean, obviously it's primarily theological and conceptual why the ultra-Orthodox don't abide it, but it's also doesn't alienism. It's some weird import, of these like mixed blood

Ashkenazim who were marinated in this racial pressure cooker of central Europe that doesn't have that doesn't have a context of people outside of that. I mean, don't get me wrong.

There was a nutty and bigoted extremist in indigenous to Palestine who took on the Zionist cause and decided that they wanted to purify the Jewish homeland of of their racial enemies but that's not the the core of Zionism, not just in terms of the people who constituted you know the the spear point of Hagan and things,

but also the core ideologues. I mean, these by definition were people who came from elsewhere, you know, but, you also made the point in the beginning that, um, the whole concept of,

um, like Eretz Israel is to bring, you know, more Jews there. Uh, do they? want to go. I mean, you know, can they serve? Can they survive without having a diaspora? I don't think they can. No, but that's not, but they also know that there'd never be a situation where Jews all migrate to Israel.

I mean, Israel's secondary. It's something I try to explain to people. It's particularly grotesque when they go about things. It's the people who believe in the enterprise are extremely radical and extremely violent. The, it creates this sort of identitarian ethos and a philosophy out of this endless conflict

mechanism but I mean that's all point among other things the point isn't you know where we're going to bring the diaspora

all to Israel I mean that may have been in you know in the inner warriors and things or even in the immediate aftermath the Balfour Declaration and and you know during early uh race wars with the Arabs you'd have guys talk that way and some of them actually believed it but that's that was never the majority consensus among the Jewish people or their elite and I mean there was just never realistic you know um

But it's a doomed enterprise for all kinds of reasons. That's one of the reasons, or that's the proximate cause of its irrationality. It's got to realize this grand objective of this greater Judea racial state within theater or the enterprise is going to die. you know um that's why uh you know in in in in 40 years israel as we know it won't exist anymore um what some sort of ultra orthodox theocracy will look like as an open-ended question but it's it's going to be very different you know this uh but that but that's also why that's also why nettingyahu is just dictator for life because there's there's nobody to replace him there's no backbench you know, it's a gerontography just like in America.

I mean, American Israel are the same thing in terms of government, but you know what I mean. All right. Well, that was that was some important history. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, I hope that was informative and didn't bore everybody. I don't think it's going to bore anyone. I'll remind everybody, the best way to hook up with Thomas, if you want, is substack.

His substack is real. 777. Substack.com. And, you know, from there, you can connect to everywhere else. There is a, was it Thomas777.com. The T is a 7. Yeah, it's my website. Yeah, and when I'm on social media and stuff,

even though I really disdained social media, they're probably going to ban me again, too, because, like, a bunch of internet weirdos get really mad at me today. I mean, like, like, like, people will hate us anyway. Sometimes, like, I'll say, I'll make some offhand remark and he'll get really agitated. I think they're mad at me for, like, making fun of their, making fun of their rabbi, Mr. Trump.

Well, yeah, that's something that's been hard to unsee lately how many people have all of a sudden jumped on the Trump trend. Well, yeah, I mean, their helots. in the in the synagogue of fagga but uh but i but i digress point being i things are things have been going very well and yeah i wanted just just a quick shout out in a couple weeks where me and the fellows are going to michigan because thomas tour was starting up again in march and we're going to go meet nico clow and i'm hoping some of the detroit guys or some of the detroit guys said they want to meet up and i got a lot of love from our michigan people's that made me feel good

But if you're one of those people's or if you want to meet up, go check out the upcoming events at Substack on my Substack and all the info is right there. It's just going to be like a quick, like it's a quick two-day con. It's like horror and crime stuff. So I'm sure a lot of people flying a freakflare are going to be there, but we're going to see Nico and it might be cool, man. And Michigan's an awesome state. And, you know, I'm looking forward to meeting our peoples there. So I just wanted to show my own shit real quick. All right, Thomas.

Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, buddy.