49 minutes ago, BestB said:

When atrocities took place all the anti semites were screaming its a fake and wanted proof. When proof was shown, they started screaming jews deserved it

 

When Hamas and co says Israel did this or that, none of the "supporters" even question the bs been fed and again bad jews.

 

Here is a fact, Hamas made an attack being well aware of what to come afterwards

Hamas did not build a single bomb shelter or made any preparations for what is to come

All the arab nations and arabs chanting and protesting, did not take a single refuge and not only that but making threats if anyone tries to force them to take a single one.

All the arabs screaming have done as little as possible demanding everyone else does more

Jordan slaughtered 150 000 but now protesting?

Lebanon has had refugee camps for 70 years, 3rd generation born are still considered refugees, not allowed to work or study legally

 

Not a single arab has questioned WHY out of all the killed and injured most are women and children, so where are the men?

Not a single arab or supporter questioned out of the reported killed how many are Hamas fighters?

 

And my all time favorite is the reporting of Israel attacking hospital and fierce fighting going on for days while Hamas claims there are no fighters in the hospital, So if there are no fighters in or around hospital who exactly is fighting IDF for days on?

In the latest attack on Al Shifa Hospital, IDF took away news reporting equipment, etc, so that there is little evidence of what happened. There was reporting that there was fighting, but around 100 m from Al Shifa. On a previous operation on Al Shifa, in an IDF guided tour of the "command center" in the basement, they pointed out the "terrorist staff list", actually a calendar, and showed off some Hamas equipment that IDF could have brought with them. Propaganda.

It seems to me that all these attacks on hospitals are just part of a strategy to make Gaza unlivable. 

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

IMHO, I don't think that the whole western world backs Israel any more.

 

Many Western governments still do in spite of their people being strongly in favor of a ceasefire.

2 hours ago, Butts said:

Simple Ai detector shows 92% AI generated image

Maybe it came from a photo of holding the Israeli flag.

4 hours ago, Hellfire said:

 You forgot to mention that it was and is official position of the “great and democratic” countries like Syria and Iran to annihilate Israel. Every action Israel takes against these awful regimes is a part of self-defence. 
 The fact that Israel, presumably, have a nuclear bomb, does not prevent it from being attacked on a daily basis for 70+ years. From all the sides, by any means available to its medieval and inhuman neighbors.

The whole western world does support Israel but it is Israel and its people facing the enemy every day of their life. Try to understand that for the ordinary Muslim fanatic there is only one important thing they fight against - the very existence of the Israeli state on “their lands”. Now try to make peace with them by turning the other cheek.

 

It would have ended long before the Ayatollahs if in 1948 Israel had compensated the 750,000 displaced Palestinians and returned movable property of the Palestinians people to what remained of their lands.

Now Israel itself is in the throes of its own fanatics, not a happy prospect for the world.

1 hour ago, ThaiFelix said:

The Israeli Dept of Propaganda and Dirty Tricks Media Library,   Just below the fake pics of raped women and beheaded babies.

EVen the recent UN report had to admit that there was no victim testimony, only second-hand allegations of rape. NYT and other sources debunked a lot of the propaganda, but not before politicians in the West like Biden reported it as fact!

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

No point in re-hashing a narratives and opinions that was posted in these pages a thousands of times already,

just to that in this war, there're no winners, only losers..

Let's hope that the biggest losers will be the vicious settlers. In 1947-9 Zionist thugs forced 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in present-day Israel. So the world in concert should make Israel take back the 700,000 settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians in camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria can come back to inhabit the settlements relinquished by the settler squatters.

4 hours ago, Hellfire said:

 This sentence proves to me that you have no idea about what really happens in that area of the world. Several million Israelis against 2 billion muslims, whose common purpose is to wipe out Israel from the region. Palestinians are indeed the victims. But not Israel’s victims but the victims of the whole autocratic Islamic world, which uses them as stick against the Jewish state and the western civilization as a whole.
 Israel is not a superpower! For 70+ years all that Israel is doing is trying to survive.     To be honest, Israel is a military camp and not an ordinary country. A camp surrounded by the sea of medieval mentality enemies, hating anything that this democratic and successful country represents. If only Palestinians controlled their actions and 51% of them accepted the idea of the Jewish state - there would be peace the next day. 
I  am tired of the useful idiots having opinion on something they have no true understanding of.

 

 

"Several million Israelis against 2 billion muslims" Repeating this trope ad infinitum only increases the paranoia that has led to around 70% of Jewish Israelis approving the ongoing genocide. 

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

No point in re-hashing a narratives and opinions that was posted in these pages a thousands of times already,

just to that in this war, there're no winners, only losers..

Let's hope that the biggest losers will be the vicious settlers. In 1947-9 Zionist thugs forced 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in present-day Israel. So the world in concert should make Israel take back the 700,000 settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians in camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria can come back to inhabit the settlements relinquished by the settler squatters.

15 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I agree, but criticism of Israel, and criticism of Israeli policies should not be equated with Jew hating. It's simply not the same thing, They are two completely different things.

 

But they certainly are a convenient talking point for Israel and their extremely toxic and over funded  lobby. 

The campaign going on across the West to make criticism of Israel, in particular its policies regarding Palestinians, be categorized as anti-Semitism is intended to suppress legitimate speech, even outlaw it in some cases. There is a government ministry in Israel created to combat BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions). In the US this campaign is pushed by Christian Zionists who are a major force in the Republican Party.

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

Disgraceful ...?

 

What the israeli government does is disgraceful .

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/

Video shows un­armed men in Gaza shot dead, buried by Is­raeli bull­doz­er

CAIR calls for UN probe of unarmed Palestinians killed by Israeli army

Israeli attacks kills women, children in Rafah; famine threatens north Gaza: UN

UN expert on Palestine says she has received threats over her work

‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe Israel committing ‘genocide’

 

Just from today ...

 

CNN :

 

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/01/middleeast/gaza-hospitals-destruction-investigation-intl-cmd/

 

Israeli forces surround two more Gaza hospitals, Palestinian Red Crescent says

Israeli military forced journalists and health workers to strip in Gaza hospital raid, eyewitnesses say

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/04/israel-50-years-occupation-abuses

 

Fifty years after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today. 

 

At least five categories of major violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law characterize the occupation: unlawful killings; forced displacement; abusive detention; the closure of the Gaza Strip and other unjustified restrictions on movement; and the development of settlements, along with the accompanying discriminatory policies that disadvantage Palestinians. 

 

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/israel-and-palestine

 

Israeli Detention, Torture, and Ill-Treatment of Palestinians

Israeli authorities apply Israeli civil law to settlers but govern West Bank Palestinians under harsh military law. In so doing, they deny them basic due process and try them in military courts with a nearly 100 percent conviction rate against Palestinians.

As of December 1, Israel held 7,677 Palestinians in custody for “security” offenses, according to Israeli Prison Services figures. This includes 200 Palestinian children, as of November 6, according to the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer. Israel incarcerates many Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) inside Israel, complicating family visits and violating international humanitarian law’s prohibition against their transfer outside occupied territory.

 

I am not pro palestinian , not pro israel either ...

 

But when I see all the Israelies ( lies ) and their poor attempts to justify their genocidal actions , I start to think that they are have no empathy , no limits in their desire to destroy , to kill ... the same monsters as the Nazis were ...

 

 

And now Nethanjahu , the liar , https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7A7201/

wants to finish the palestinian " occupation " of Gaza ... the " endloesung " , the palestinian holocaust .

 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-settlements-gaza

 

'Cashing in on Genocide': Israeli Firm Pitches Beachfront Real Estate in Leveled Gaza

 

"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank.

 

Palestine defenders this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza.

"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement published by Harey Zahav—an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank—that drew international attention following last week's Practical Preparation for Gaza Settlement Conference in Tel Aviv.

The ad depicts an artist's rendering of luxury homes superimposed over an actual photograph of a Gaza neighborhood destroyed by Israeli attacks—which have killed nearly 20,000 people while displacing over 85% of the embattled strip's 2.3 million people since early October.

 

pp

 

I think , if Israel flattens Rafah with it's 1.5 mio refugees , then Israel should be sanctioned by the international community , just like Iran , Russia, North Korea .

What they have done is genocide, but will Netahyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Gallant, et al ever face justice? It would take severe sanctions for the bubble around the Israeli public to pop, so that they wake up the horrid crimes that many among them have been committing for the last 6 months, not to mention their forbears in the last 100 years.

7 hours ago, saintdomingo said:

I thought rice and veg were part of the Thai ancestral diet.?

He /she is probably referring to prehistoric humans. We call them hunter gatherers. They did not practice agriculture, but, by analogy to recent primitive populations, subsisted on plant products such as fruits in addition to hunting. It's possible that they consumed wild greens, but only a few really old stomach contents have been discovered so far. Various cooking methods predate the appearance of pottery.  

On 3/24/2024 at 9:31 PM, josephbloggs said:

Never understood the Trink worship. His column was an abomination, just cut and pasted rubbish from emails, lame jokes, and silly cliches. Even his book reviews were poor. He was a talentless man who somehow made a living from it (kudos to him for that), and I never understood why the Bangkok Post kept him for so long.

But no, never met him.

I believe that his column replaced one by "Maew Mong", a foreigner perhaps named Halliday, who did great Bangkok restaurant reviews. I tried some of these relatively obscure spots - quite impressed. I didn't like Trink's column, either.

On 3/24/2024 at 9:31 PM, josephbloggs said:

 

On 3/24/2024 at 9:31 PM, josephbloggs said:

 

On 3/24/2024 at 9:31 PM, josephbloggs said:

 

18 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

Strange behaviour from the TRD, what if the taxpayer has no assessable income that year and is instead living off savings from inside Thailand or exempt income from overseas. A rhetorical question of course.

Maybe it all comes down to having filed a return. If you don't have to pay anything because your country's tax treaty with Thailand requires Thailand to give a tax credit, e.g. US, then you might not have any tax liability in Thailand, but have to file a return anyway.

Here's a compendium of SMR projects - see attached.

SMR_Book_2020.pdf

17 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Negative things happen to you Bob, that do no happen to other long timers here...

 

Its intriguing to the point you should get a film crew following you around....    then we'd see what really happens outside of your delusions.

 

 

 

He could wear a bodycam.

On 3/3/2024 at 10:12 AM, hjst45 said:

Tried to do my online report for Chaengwattana. Got rejected first time, tried another two times and still rejected. 
 

“Your application for "STAYING LONGER THAN 90 DAYS" has been rejected.

 

Incorrect entry date upon entry into the kingdom/ Incorrect visa expiration date.”

All information is correctly entered.

 

Someone mentioned this would be the case if you left the country since the last report, which is true in my case. They seem to have no record of re-entry into the country and hence the constant rejection.

 

Guess I need to take a day off work to sort it out. Sigh.

Why don't you do the first 90-day by post after traveling abroad? I use EMS for sending and for the return envelope as well. 

56 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

Paging @JimGant, US cpa, retired and all round thoroughly expert US tax person.

 

(I'm sure he'll be along shortly to answer your US tax questions)

Thanks. I  have looked again at the Thai-US treaty and saw the tax credit provision, but if some specific elucidation is possible regarding calculation methodology it would be a great help.

On 2/16/2024 at 5:29 PM, Mike Lister said:

If you would have taken the time to read the tax guide or pay attention to what has been said in the many many threads on this subject, you would already understand that not all funds transferred from abroad is regarded as (taxable) income and that most people already understand that. That fact notwithstanding, if you have any questions on this subject that you wish to raise, calmly, politely unemotionally and without vulgarity, I will do my best to answer them.

So I would like to know whether a retired US citizen (paying US taxes) can get a credit on Thai taxes on money brought into Thailand under terms of the tax treaty. If so, what kind of income is eligible for credit on the Thai tax return? In my case all income is taxable dividends and interest, not pensions, IRAs, or 401Ks. Thanks.

On 1/20/2024 at 5:53 PM, Jingthing said:

It's delusional to think for one second that Israel would ever accept a one state solution voluntarily. That would mean the end of Israel and anyone who is half way honest fully realizes that. It's funny how many people expect Israel to commit national suicide when they would never ask the same thing of any other country, especially their own. 

You are quite right that Israel would not voluntarily agree to any solution - one-state or two-state. It's becoming quite evident to many countries that ethnic cleansing did not stop in 1948, but is an ongoing project of succeeding Israeli governments, only now it is blatant. "National suicide" is one of those dog whistle terms drummed into the national psyche, promoting the siege mentality rendering fair treatment of the Palestinian issue impossible. That's why international opprobrium of Israel and what goes with it may eventually lead to justice for the Palestinians, in spite of the gloomy predictions of Israeli media and politicians.

On 1/20/2024 at 3:20 PM, Brian Hull said:

Israel has no propriety rights to Gaza or the West Bank and so Netanyahu's objection to a Palestinian State should carry no weight. The world at large should endorse a Palestinian State with or without the cooperation of Israel (just as it endorsed the creation of Israel in 1948). Israel will have to learn to accept it or lose the financial and military backing of the US, and risk an international boycott. The land grabbing Jewish settlers who have set up home in the West Bank and might choose to remain will come under the authority of Palestine.

The settlers have no right to be there (under international law), and Israel should repatriate them (and put the murderers in jail). It's likely that it will require sustained sanctions for Israel to get out of the West Bank.

On 1/20/2024 at 2:27 PM, Morch said:

 

You're trying to paint the Palestinians as some pro-equality, pro-democracy crowd, with Israel painted into the opposing corner. You have no clue. Hamas gets a whole lot of support - does it represent any of the required values? Does the PA embodies them? Do Palestinian sentiment align with what you tout?

 

Have a look at the Middle East. Find a country managing harmonic co-existence between groups, plus all the democracy stuff. Then get back to reality.

It's obvious that many Israelis are pro-democracy for themselves, but not for Palestinians. Look at the demonstrations against Netanyahu's plan for amending the basic law concerning their Supreme Court, but the media in Israel brainwashes people to have a negative attitude demonizing Palestinians. So when 7 October happened, it was very easy for politicians and the military to incite genocidal thoughts.

Until the bubble of existential paranoia is popped, it will be impossible to have peace in the Middle East.

Lebanon used to be a country with many religious groups living in harmony despite foreign interference, such as US in 1958, Israeli overflights in the late 60s which I saw, then the 1975-90 Civil War when power sharing broke down, and IDF invasions in 1982 and 2006. Some people there really want a non-sectarian democracy, but the French set up a system that perpetuates sectarian divisions which has finally led to a kleptocracy that has bled the country to death.