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@thaibeachlovers There you go again with your attempts to minimize Hamas's threat, the Hamas 7/10 attack and so on. Unless you missed it - over a 1000 dead Israelis in a single day, a whole lot of hostages taken. Do you think all of them dead Gazans were civilians? Do you think all of them dead/taken Israelis were military?

Nah, more like you exhibit some strange obsession with badmouthing, certain orifices and their product. Also, reading comprehension issues, maybe after effect of a lively new years' eve.

You seem like a nice guy.

Eloquent.

I know. There were opinions here that it might be added as some extra requirement when renewing/extending visas. Apparently, I'm not the only one who asked them.

Earlier today had a talk with my banker (well, she handled our family accounts for decades, nowadays head of a major branch) - she vaguely knew about it, added a higher up in the bank HQ to the conversation as a favor. Turns out the guy's daughter is married to a Thai, lives here for 10 years or so - he was aware of the situation, had no real advice but wait and see, don't get excited. Says his counterparts in Bangkok Bank and SCB say it will either be a mess and then fixed, or it will not effect little fish. Their combined wisdom was that unless it's a serious chunk of money, might not be worth the effort to dodge it. Bottom line, wait to June and see. If it's real bad, at worst you pay one year, then see what set up fits. Later today at immigration, just started to ask about this there was a general derisive moaning from the desks - no idea, no one told us anything, don't worry, you're the Nth one to ask today....

Not really. Musk needed an 'I'm-not-an-antisemite' moment, Netanyahu needed an 'only-I-can-set-Musk-straight' moment. A meeting of interests. Two PR opportunities.

Mossad is pretty much the least involved Israeli intelligence agency, as far as the fiasco goes. As for the current reports - not quite the same as the failed intelligence assessments prior to 7/10. The issue was, apparently, not lack of information, but intelligence services and head of state being 'locked' on a a wrong interpretation of it. Most of what's shown on the clips released is factual, you can disregard the spokesman's commentary, though - if you feel it's not necessary/biased/whatever. I do get your point about waiting a bit until things are verified etc., nothing wrong with that. That was the issue with the hospital 'bombing' which turned out to be a failed rocket launch. Initial reports were in hurry to get the headline, and regurgitated Hamas propaganda. A day later, things turned out to be quite different.

Just read the topics then.

It is your opinion, as in you cannot back it up with anything.

@thaibeachlovers You've made a silly argument. It was countered. You cannot address it. So you're back to deflections. Same old.

@thaibeachlovers Yes, there are many precedents to this, learn your history. And, of course, they were not a 'country' at the time.

@thaibeachlovers There's a separate topic dedicated for that. Notice the word 'soon' in the original post?....Yeah.

Why did Hamas start this war knowing the reaction? Why didn't Hamas provide these children with shelter, enough tunnels for that? Maybe it's because Hamas leaders see Gazans as 'necessary sacrifices' for the 'cause'.

Yeah, that often involves the terrorist side giving up terrorism. Same thing happened with the Fatah. Hamas is not there, yet.

So you've no intention of visiting the region, no real interest other than bashing. That's good to know, although was rather obvious.

You have no idea. There's no need to convince you of anything, your mind is closed and set.

No, it isn't 'obvious'. He's been in power (on and off) for about 15 years. Check relevant Palestinian demographics, maybe rethink your nonsense post. Even with regard to this current war, had Israel's aim was to kill civilians, the death toll would be way higher.

The IDF (as opposed to the government) cited the same time frame from the start, with regard to objectives set. As for the hostages - Hamas doesn't seem willing to negotiate, at least not under any semi-reasonable terms. Even if there is a hostage deal, it will not include all of them, so things are bound to drag on. The flip side of this (which you do not mention) is that Hamas could end the suffering, death and destruction by either negotiating or surrendering. For some reason, you seem to imply this is solely up to Israel.

@thaibeachlovers Have you finished justifying, minimizing Hamas's 7/10 attack yet?

@thaibeachlovers It was only 'ignored' in your misleading low information posts.

@thaibeachlovers Hamas managed to kill over 1000 Israelis in a single day. Israel's pace is nowhere close to that. Hamas announced they would do it again, and again. You say ignore it. Try harder.

You keep saying the same thing. You haven't supported it with anything. It's nonsense.

@thaibeachlovers No, it doesn't take years of experience. Most military flights schools don't last years, and takes less for an experienced pilot to switch to another airplane. As for tech and mechanical support, this is always included in the deal - complete with training for relevant troops. Same goes for spares. There are kits which allow aircraft to carry missiles/armaments they weren't designed to. Often used the other way around, by the way - putting western made missiles/systems on older Russian made aircraft. All this is common knowledge, or easy enough to find out.

There was some of that as well.