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A quote from the link provided... "We urge Israel to do more to help civilians, knowing full well that it faces an enemy that would never hold itself to those standards – an enemy that cynically embeds itself among men, women, and children, and fires rockets from hospitals, from schools, from mosques, from residential buildings; an enemy whose leaders surround themselves with hostages; an enemy that has declared publicly its goal: to kill as many innocent civilians as it can, simply because they’re Jews, and to wipe Israel off the map. That’s why we’ve made clear that Israel is fully justified in confronting Hamas and other terrorist organizations. And that’s why the United States has done more than any other country to support Israel’s right to ensure that October 7th never happens again. Israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on October 7th." From my reading most Western countries have stated similar sentiments. Countries, including the President of the USA, do caution the Israelis to wind back the level of killing and injuries of the Gazan population whilst recognizing Hamas have made no such commitment / effort to lower civilian casualties. I understand the critique of Israel is, to put it simply, overkill. Netanyahu has now demanded Gazans evacuate Rafah, for an IDF assault, with a current population estimated at 1.2 million plus; where on earth are they going to go? https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/09/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-war-hamas-updates

Excellent post - well done. Trump directed his sycophants to reject the Bill to spite Biden with the associated damage to the West. Trump is not fit to represent the Office of the President of the USA- what a pathetic individual as are his enablers.

At least one member endeavouring to stay on topic - well done! - URL below provides clarity of the size of UNWRA operations... https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do Obviously UNRWA must under go a through security review by a suitable third party to identify those of it's staff supporting Hamas military and intelligence operations and take necessary action. However, IMO, in the meantime funding must still flow for UNRWA humanitarian operations throughout the region. Should the decision be made UNRWA's to be closed down in Gaza and elsewhere it will create enormous challenges for support of the millions who will be disenfranchised. One would guess it will be extremely challenging to select a suitable alternative, so likely difficult pragmatic compromise decision/s will occur.

I've been a member of this forum since 2004 and never indicated support for terrorism - your post is nothing more than attempted personal attack - very childish.

I guess you're referring to Hamas, plenty of commentary within the international community claiming it's an unachievable objective...

How could the civilian population remove Hamas? Do they not rule at the point of a gun. So far as I know zero authoritarian governments in the M.E. , excepting Iran, have never been overthrown by the local population in any case the overthrow of the Shah just led to even more vicious rulers; same with Egypt.

Is this option seriously being considered by Israeli government - aren't there about 700,00 Settlers in the West Bank?

I disagree. For those within the Civil Service who have communicated their disagreement with current policy supporting Israel's actions in Gaza, I suggest, took action to go public based upon their sense of morality - something I admire. I assume the participants in the action work within Departments directly involved with supporting Israel's actions in Gaza. We already know some Western leaders have been communicating with Israeli government expressing caution on the outcomes of non combatants death and injury as well as massive destruction of infrastructure. If I were Palestinian, I would loath living under the rule of the gun (Hamas), but on the other side of the coin I would hate the Israelis. With my limited knowledge, personally I can't see a reasonable outcome for either side - hopefully I'm wrong.

One last reply concerning this matter. It is against government policy for staff to express criticism of government policy in the public domain - what's why

Except one member who has excellent knowledge of the politics / situation in Israel

OK. We have differing interpretations of belittling commentary - from your post - how all of 80 unidentified, anonymous and therefore unverifiable employees.

The point is persons within governments have voiced their concerns with their government policies and have been ignored. Accordingly they have now gone public. I suggest even if a million public servants within US government had gone public you would still belittle their concerns. Increasingly Israeli killings within Gaza are gaining criticism, as well as by Settlers in the West Bank. IMO the Israeli killings of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank are eroding Israeli support and way out of the bounds of a credible response to the murderous Hamas attack on Oct 7. It will be interesting to follow if Israel and the Palestinians can achieve a lasting peace after this murderous affair.

Of relevance to OP https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/civil-servants-from-us-eu-pen-anonymous-letter-decrying-support-for-israeli-op-in-gaza/ The letter, which The New York Times says has over 800 supporters, complains that concerns the officials privately expressed “were overruled by political and ideological considerations” and they therefore “are obliged to do everything in our power on behalf of our countries and ourselves to not be complicit in one of the worst human catastrophes of this century.” The missive goes on to accuse Israel of showing “no boundaries in its military operations in Gaza” and ignoring “all important counterterrorism expertise gained since 9/11.”

Boundaries for boat exclusion. This is an island off the coast of Pattaya called Koh Larn. Packed with tourists in high season, but relatively clean sea compared to Pattaya beaches.

She's a very attractive 30 year old. No - no intros...

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I have a Thai female family member currently working at a casino in Macau earning 100k baht a month. She been working in Chinese owned casinos around SE Asia for a number of years.

With regard to UNRWA staff providing support for Hamas, I would assume it would be extremely challenging for UNRWA management to identify and fire them given Hamas is the ruling party at the point of a gun. I would assume UNRWA management would be in fear of death to do so, plus making changes counter to Hamas interests. How many Gazans a year are murdered by Hamas - easy to critique in a safe zone...However, I repeat IMO it is out of order to withdraw funding for UNWRA at the moment when there is apparently no other functioning humanitarian organisation with sufficient staff in Gaza.

Real politic

Personally I disagree with defunding UNRWA based upon a very small number of staff (approx 15,000 staff in Gaza) allegedly involved with Oct 7. UNRWA has already fired those who Israel named. I would guess it is extremely difficult to identify staff actually involved with terrorism. As an outcome of this matter UNRWA will be under additional scrutiny by various security agencies. UNRWA carry our very important work supporting the local population in an extremely challenging environment - to date 100 UN staff killed in Gaza since 7 October. IMO it amounts to collective punishment to withhold funding, enable them to carry on with their essential services.

OP post is total rubbish. nearly always the case when the word "woke" is used.

Sounds as though you have sufficient funds to buy an apartment and car, with money to spare. Should you wish to return to Thailand or visit elsewhere overseas for a few weeks at a time during the two year period you can do so. Obviously the decision to return to Oz is yours alone, but if you have good friends / family who love you why not return. Plus of course as you get older you will not have to worry about medical costs. Note Australia is not cheap to live, prices nave gone up, but pensioner concession card reduces some costs e.g. energy bills, public transport and so on.

I find it amazing Americans will vote for a convicted rapist, even though it was a Civil Court conviction; i.e. Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/ it is crystal clear from his previous Presidency and behaviour after he lost re-election, Trump is unfit to represent the Office of the President of the USA. The Constitution is way past due for some Amendments to keep people such as Trump from being nominated as President.

OP: Why not ask the Canadian Embassy? One would think if your Will is legal in Thailand and Embassy was informed in a timely manner, Embassy would have to comply to your instructions.

The Guardian is quoting from Court proceedings presumedly highlighting to attract interest in the proceedings. We know the Court has no power to enforce findings: in reality some postering by RSA. However, IMO, some people should be somewhat cautious on critic of RSA given Israel offered strategic weapons to SA during the apartheid regime; not a black and white situation regards morality. Generally the Guardian is highly regarded and has won a number of awards for it's reporting and investigations. I responded to the other member as personally I am bored with right wing misrepresentation of facts on this forum. Now how about returning to topic...