Israel Supports Thai Projects with Celebration Funds

"...aids disadvantaged children"

"...highlighted by Thai workers in Israel and Israeli tourists visiting Thailand."

The country committing genocide providing a budget to humanitarian projects?!

The country usurping the lands of others, colonizing countries by killing children and civilians?!

This is hypocrisy as its best! 😑

1 hour ago, Pesche said:

"...aids disadvantaged children"

"...highlighted by Thai workers in Israel and Israeli tourists visiting Thailand."

The country committing genocide providing a budget to humanitarian projects?!

The country usurping the lands of others, colonizing countries by killing children and civilians?!

This is hypocrisy as its best! 😑

What country are you from?

Likely we would uncover "hypocrisy" in abundance in that.

Seems like an act of image management!

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

What country are you from?

Likely we would uncover "hypocrisy" in abundance in that.

Most countries do but they fall short of killing innocent people and kids. If Thailand was serious they'd reject the offer which won't happen because there's money involved. Not one baht of that donation will go to where the people need it the most.

22 minutes ago, Rams86 said:

Most countries do but they fall short of killing innocent people and kids. If Thailand was serious they'd reject the offer which won't happen because there's money involved. Not one baht of that donation will go to where the people need it the most.

Thailand is much closer to Russia than Israel.

Talk about killing (and stealing) innocent children.

The Israel demonization brigade is weirdly focused on only one tiny nation as if the world's problems would magically be solved if that one country vanished.

We know what that's really about.

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Israel has redirected funds from its national celebration budget to humanitarian projects in Thailand. In a symbolic move marking 72 years of diplomatic ties, the Israeli embassy in Thailand opted to support community projects rather than host traditional national day receptions. Israeli Ambassador to Thailand Alona Fisher-Kamm emphasized the decision was influenced by ongoing violence in the Middle East.

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Instead of a celebration in a time of conflict, the embassy chose meaningful initiatives, providing an upgraded drip irrigation system and a new greenhouse to the HDF Mercy Farm in Bangkok. The farm, led by Father Joseph H Maier, aids disadvantaged children by improving food supplies and vocational training. This equipment is set to bolster the farm’s production, benefiting the Mercy Centre and local communities.

The initiative underscores the strong relationship between Israel and Thailand, which is highlighted by Thai workers in Israel and Israeli tourists visiting Thailand. Ambassador Fisher-Kamm affirmed that similar projects would soon extend to northern and northeastern Thailand, fostering further ties and community development.

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The violence, genocide and the illegal occupation of sovereign countries is solely caused by the apartheid state Israel with unconditional support from the US. That's a fact. Gaslighting, throwing pro-Israel talking points and money at Thai projects won't change the truth.

38 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Seems like an act of image management!

It's a smart move on Israel's part. A celebration of Israel's founding would have attracted protests that perhaps would become violent . No one will protest against Israel donating equipment to Mercy Farm. Israel marks its independence day with a good-will gesture. 👍

2 minutes ago, ZigM said:

Gaslighting, throwing pro-Israel talking points and money at Thai projects won't change the truth.

False accusations against Israel won't change the truth, either.

52 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Seems like an act of image management!

Or another word -- diplomacy.

Thailand and Israel have a history of good relations.
Diplomatics of any country do diplomacy.

When Israel does it of course it becomes EVIL.

Because?

Just now, Evil Penevil said:

Just now, Evil Penevil said:

False accusations against Israel won't change the truth, either.

Right is right and wrong is wrong. Israel and its supporters are wrong.

The US has AIPAC; this must be the beginning of THAIPAC.

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Thailand is much closer to Russia than Israel.

Talk about killing (and stealing) innocent children.

The Israel demonization brigade is weirdly focused on only one tiny nation as if the world's problems would magically be solved if that one country vanished.

We know what that's really about.

I can't speak for others but what I'm really about is stopping wars. In terms of victim countries, Israel wins the prize. I don't want Israel to disappear but I'd like to see them join the civilised world where we all cooperate instead of kill.

Everybody here knows my personal position on Israel. (It's not hands and knees.)

Of course, this goodwill gesture is PR but give credit where it's due. And Father Joe is a great choice of recipient. He may not be with us much longer.

I know about Mercy Foundation in Klong Toey but I was unaware of the kibbutz Mercy Farm. Cool!

For the unappreciative, however much this donation was, it's that many bullets less for the IDF.

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Seems like an act of image management!

Exactly! It's an effort to mitigate the appalling behavior of visitors from Israel.

48 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I can't speak for others but what I'm really about is stopping wars. In terms of victim countries, Israel wins the prize. I don't want Israel to disappear but I'd like to see them join the civilised world where we all cooperate instead of kill.

Yeah just like the Palestinian Arabs who overwhelmingly want Israeli Jews gone or dead You're living in Cloud Cuckooland.

2 hours ago, flaming dragon said:

The US has AIPAC; this must be the beginning of THAIPAC.

Garbage lie.

4 hours ago, ZigM said:

Right is right and wrong is wrong. Israel and its supporters are wrong.

So does that make the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs who.want Israeli Jews gone or dead right in your simple black and white mind?

So the My money builds your country Jew wasn't lying after all.

A very nice gesture from Israel , helping poor Thais .

33 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

A very nice gesture from Israel , helping poor Thais .

Yeah but the obsessed Israel demonizers insist on kissing a gift horse in the mouth.

8 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Garbage lie.

The vast majority of the world doesn't give a damn what happens in that region; we're sick of hearing about and having our lives affected by it. Mutal destruction is the only thing that will bring peace.

21 hours ago, Jingthing said:

What country are you from?

Likely we would uncover "hypocrisy" in abundance in that.

@Jingthing

I am Swiss and I do wonder where you're from, keyboard warrior?!

14 hours ago, Jingthing said:

So does that make the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs who.want Israeli Jews gone or dead right in your simple black and white mind?

Several Israeli politicians have made inflammatory, dehumanizing, and escalatory statements that have been cited by international courts, the UN, and genocide scholars as evidence of incitement to genocide. [1, 2, 3]

Human rights organizations and legal bodies have repeatedly highlighted the following statements:

• Yoav Gallant (Defense Minister): On October 9, 2023, while announcing a complete siege on the Gaza Strip, he stated, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

• Isaac Herzog (President): In an October 13, 2023 press conference, when asked about civilian casualties in Gaza, he said, "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true."

• Amihai Eliyahu (Heritage Minister): In a November 2023 radio interview, when asked if an atomic bomb should be dropped on Gaza, he replied that it was "one of the possibilities."

• Bezalel Smotrich (Finance Minister): In various contexts, he advocated for the forced reduction of Gaza's population and has pushed for Palestinians to "leave in great numbers to third countries."

• Israel Katz (Energy Minister, later Defense Minister): Shortly after the October 7 attacks, he stated, "All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."

• Avi Dichter (Agriculture Minister): In November 2023, he called for the military offensive in the territory to be "Gaza's Nakba", referencing the 1948 displacement of Palestinians. [1, 2, 3, 4]

These and other statements were included in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded in a report that such language reflects state intent and incitement to commit genocide. [1, 2, 3, 4]

For a detailed analysis of these remarks and their implications under international law, you can review the UN OHCHR Press Release on the UN's findings or explore the Wikipedia Article on Intent and Incitement.

Also, for your information, international bodies, human rights organizations, and a UN Commission of Inquiry have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. These conclusions are based on several actions and policies implemented during the ongoing military offensive: [1, 2, 3, 4]

• Mass Killings and Targeting: Unprecedented levels of bombardment have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, including widespread attacks on civilians, journalists, aid workers, and healthcare providers.

• Deprivation and Starvation: Israel imposed a total siege that blocked the entry of essential humanitarian aid, food, water, and electricity, intentionally bringing about conditions of famine and life-threatening deprivation.

• Destruction of Infrastructure: Systematic campaigns have decimated healthcare systems, agricultural land, educational institutions, and religious and cultural sites, rendering large areas uninhabitable.

• Forced Displacement: Repeated evacuation orders and relentless bombing have forced the vast majority of Gaza's population into designated, often shrinking "safe zones" which themselves have been subject to strikes.

• Sexual Violence: UN and international investigators have documented systemic acts of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces.

• Incitement to Genocide: International bodies and courts point to explicit statements of intent made by senior Israeli political and military officials as direct evidence of genocidal intent. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

These findings were formally detailed by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and B'Tselem have published extensive reports concluding that Israel's conduct and policy outcomes meet the legal definitions of genocide.

@Jingthing, dude, insults and lies are the tools of an ignorant bully. The world is being swamped all day long with unequivocal and undeniable evidence of murder, landgrab, torture, genocide and lies by the Israeli Government and their IDF (see above). Have you no eyes? Those are not my words but that of reputable organisations who haven't been bought by the Israel lobby yet. If someone were blind, I could understand that but to deliberately take sides with the bully (i.e. Israel) says a lot about you. Either you are extremely gullible or you work for an Israeli organisation in some capacity and your job is to troll and sway public opinion through misinformation. Either way, your support of the aggressor (Israel) is just as outrageous as a NAZI sympathizer in WWII supporting Hitler and his criminal cause. I would know as my grandmother had to fake her family tree to prove she was pure German to avoid her and my mother and siblings being picked up for a free ride to the closest concentration camp for extermination. When the Russians were the first to reach Berlin after WWII, the surviving women and children, among them my other grandmother and my father, were hiding in bunkers. They first thought that they were being saved until Russian soldiers gang-raped the women. My father had to watch how his mother and a dozen other women were gang-raped by the victors. In the 1970's my history teacher told me the story how the Gestapo picked up his father during WWII. His father had been illegally listening to the BBC radio for news of the war. That alone was considered treason. The 10 year-old neighbour's son had dutifully reported this to the authorities. He never saw his father again. He was presumably tortured and murdered in an interrogation cell, similar to how Palestinians are treated in Israel and the West Bank. I direct your attention to Amnesty International. Please also read this link and here. The evidence is clear as day.

I knew a lot of people who have WWII and post war horror stories to tell. I'm sure that you're now sitting in your ivory tower, judging people based on gobbledygook Israeli talking-points and race rather than facts. Please read the links that I have provided. There are multiple independent resources that corroborate the genocide. Throwing money at Thai projects is an insult to Jews and Thais who want nothing to do with Israel and the Zionist activities. My Thai children are appalled by Israeli's war crimes and crimes against humanity. DNA tests have revealed that my grandmother was right. Her grandmother was indeed Jewish, and if it weren't for her forgery of her family tree during WWII, none of us would be here today. My family and my Asian kids completely reject Israel and its actions.

@Jingthing, also for your information, international observers emphasize that these crimes are enabled by a "system of absolute impunity". [1]

• Lack of Accountability: Between 2001 and 2020, about 1,300 torture complaints were filed with the Israeli Justice Ministry, resulting in only one criminal investigation and zero prosecutions.

• Institutional Support: Israeli government officials have at times openly condemned the arrest of soldiers accused of abuse, further entrenching the normalization of torture.

• Official Denial: The Israeli Prison Service consistently denies these allegations, claiming all detainees are held in accordance with the law. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Extensive military operations have obliterated approximately 70% to 83% of buildings and up to 88% of critical infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. The ongoing conflict has decimated entire neighborhoods, caused mass catastrophic displacement, and essentially dismantled civilian life, leaving basic services, healthcare, and education systems largely in ruins.

Finally, any killing is bad, regardless of the reason and it doesn't matter who does the killing. But history is very clear that for over over 100 years, and in particular since the creation of Israel, systematic crimes against humanity are being sold, by people like you, as "normal", "necessary" or "justified" when they are not. Stop defending the bully. You have an excuse for everything, you twist the truth and use tired old Israeli talking-points to justify what Israel has done (see images below). I completely reject the slaughter. I reject any state or group of people (bullies, criminals). I don't want or need a reply from you.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2238341181-e1759487050365.jpg

https://images.wsj.net/im-906036?width=1280&size=1.33333333

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Regarding the question of genocide, that is a legal matter about the definition, but there is genocide and there is genocide.

There are about 450 million Arabs in the world.

Since Israel existed the population of Arabs in the region has exploded.

Israel certainly has the technological capability to wipe out the local Arab population, but evidence is showing that they have no such intention.

Estimates are that about 10 percent of Arabs in Gaza were killed and certainly not all of them were legit military targets. There are of course civilian deaths in all wars, so it does get into a question of intention.

But in any case, you're talking about a very tiny percentage of global Arabs. Certainly much less than one percent of global Arabs.

If the majority of Palestinian Arabs get their wish to end Israel and kick out and/or murder the Jews of Israel that won't leave, Jews being quite a tiny minority group globally (about 16 million globally with about half in Israel) might lose 25 percent of global Jews (assuming half flee and half murdered).

The majority of local Arabs may have the intention to genocide local Jews (if they refuse to leave) but so far they don't have the capability. How can anyone blame Israel for making sure that they continue to NOT have the capability?

In comparison the holocaust wiped out about 50 percent of global Jews but the intention was 100 percent.

What I'm saying is the reality on the ground is not the same in different outbreaks of genocide, historical, current, and future.

Same word. A very serious word. But each case being different.