"If think if I lived in Phuket I'd get annoyed at the amount of Police checkpoints wasting my time with so many checks because they're looking to profit from foreigners. "
I live here, am a foreigner and hardly ever get stopped. Maybe it makes sense to know a place before posting about it in stead of relying on social media for an opinion.
Forestry officials will be gone again soon, or are probably gone already. That means it is up to the local government, I think this is Karon municipality, to enforce . I can't say how effective I think that will be due to Thai laws.
"The dominant leftist narrative today about Israel is that Israel should have never existed in the first place and should not exist now.".
Nonsense.
The dominant narrative is a 2-state solution.