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It's intriguing. Here we have the ardent royalists doing their best to ban Pheu Thai and throw charges at Thaksin, yet it's assumed by all that Thaksin came home with permission from the top. So if Pheu Thai are dissolved, its executives banned and Thaksin facing charges, where would that leave the next reincarnation of Pheu Thai? Surely in the People's Party camp, a formidable force But if the accusations are all dismissed and Pheu Thai walk free, where does that leave the right wing regarding faith in the institutions?

The Muslims in Southern Thailand have good reason to feel bitter towards the Thai authorities after the statute of limitations was allowed to run out on the Tak Bai massacre case Regarding Jews, many people can distinguish between Jews and the murderous policies of Israel. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/jews-shut-down-new-york-stock-exchnage-why

Really? I've always found the Israelis in Thailand to be vociferous, even boisterous in groups. Is there still an Israeli cafe on Samsen road opposite Khaosan road?

No, I think he was smuggling it out.

These books are two a penny these days. Hardship, excruciating boredom, sure, in a Thai jail, but he's smuggling death for Christ's sake. He's lucky to escape with his life imo

Love this version

May all the junk food locations worldwide fail. Processed food. One of the scourges of ' modern' man.

You can't be serious, to quote John McEnroe. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/un-commission-finds-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-israeli-attacks

How many Jews live in Arab lands, you ask. The answer is the whole lot! They've been stealing the Palestinians' land since 1948.

Here are the facts, no wonder the Arab countries attacked Israel. "History of Israel (1948–present) - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel_(1948–present)#:~:text=On 14 May 1948—the,as the State of Israel.

Already mentioned but perhaps needs driving home: a stateless person is not the same as an expat clutching a passport of his own nation.

Israel have continually seized Palestinian land since 1948. If any two state solution is unacceptable to Hamas and Hezbollah, it is because of this A quote from Wikipedia 'By 2010, when direct talks were scheduled to be restarted, continued growth of settlements on the West Bank and continued strong support of settlements by the Israeli government had greatly reduced the land and resources that would be available to a Palestinian state creating doubt among Palestinians and left-wing Israelis that a two-state solution continued to be viable.[84] In January 2012 the European Union Heads of Mission report on East Jerusalem found that Israel's continuing settlement activities and the fragile situation of the Palestinian population in East Jerusalem, as well in area C, was making a two-state solution less likely.'

Jeffrey Sachs provides a concise history of Israel and its actions.

Israel has been land grabbing, persecuting and killing Palestinians since 1948. That is appalling.

Hamad are evil, however there is no justification for Israeli violence since 1948. A two state solution is the way forward but this is always denied by the Israeli PM f Thai workers caught in the crossfire, should leave the country. Let Israelis work their own farms

Pheu Thai were once known as Thai Rak Thai which doesn't suggest any love for foreigners, so this move could be cynically intended as a 483,626 vote grabber. That said, those stateless adults and children, stymied for life by accident of birth, surely deserve to be able to fully participate in Thai life. Just a shame it couldn't be proposed by the People's Party along with Pheu Thai. The dinosaurs, of course, will never join

I understand Thais who have borrowed a lot of money to work in Israel, wanting desperately to at least pay that money off before coming home, but that country will never be safe after its extreme violence towards its neighbours for several decades. By the way, this story is already 24 hours old.

His mate was highly intoxicated. Sounds like they mixed ketamine and alcohol. Very dangerous.

Trump is not only a fascist, he's a stupid fascist who is exploited by Putin as a useful idiot

RIP Phil. Thank you for all the music.