Israeli embassy contributes to Pantry of Sharing

By The Nation

 

 

The Embassy of Israel in Thailand has stocked the Pantry of Sharing in Bangkok's Klong Toei community with dry food and other daily necessities to help people affected by Covid-19.

 

The embassy said it would continue to supply goods and ensure support for the whole community.

 

"We will get through this together," the embassy said.

 

Full story: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387910

 

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Is it kosher? ????

52 minutes ago, kotsak said:

Is it kosher? ????

Mostly Palestinian ????

I just hope that the people this is intended to help get it

Supplied by Marks & Spencer (UK)???

Shame Isreal cannot be as charitable t the Palestinians instead of stealing their land.

5 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

Shame Isreal cannot be as charitable t the Palestinians instead of stealing their land.

This has nothing at all to do with the Israeli Palestinian conflict. 

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Supplied by Marks & Spencer (UK)???

And the connection is......?

21 hours ago, rasmus5150 said:

Mostly Palestinian ????

 

What is 'mostly Palestinian'?????

47 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

Shame Isreal cannot be as charitable t the Palestinians instead of stealing their land.

yep there it is right there... that didn't take long !

2 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

Shame Isreal cannot be as charitable t the Palestinians instead of stealing their land.

It's even a greater shame when people make definitive statements about issues they know little or nothing about.  

2 hours ago, Greenhill said:

And the connection is......?

Jewish - a joke!

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

3 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

Shame Isreal cannot be as charitable t the Palestinians instead of stealing their land.

yep there it is right there... that didn't take long !

And it's true!

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

yep there it is right there... that didn't take long !

I was thinking the same.  

On 5/15/2020 at 11:20 PM, Greenhill said:

On 5/15/2020 at 9:55 PM, Burma Bill said:

Supplied by Marks & Spencer (UK)???

And the connection is......?

A chance to disparage Jews?   Anti semitism again?  Wild guess. 

 

On 5/15/2020 at 11:35 PM, hotchilli said:

Shame Isreal cannot be as charitable t the Palestinians instead of stealing their land.

Perhaps shameful that history goes unnoticed.   

Is Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories strategically necessary?

In 1967 Israel launched a war against Egypt and Syria following acts of aggression by both countries (continued invasions of air space, backing guerilla attacks on the borders, trying to divert the river providing Israel’s water source, expelling UN peacekeeping forces from Israel’s southern border and eventually starting a blockade over Israel’s southern port connecting it with Asia.

Israel warned Jordan not to join the war, as Jordan was not seen as a real enemy to Israel. In 1948 Jordan didn’t really join forces with Syria and Egypt in the attempt to destroy Israel. Jordan only wanted to expand its kingdom to more Arab populated areas and didn’t care much about the existence of the State of Israel. Jordan also welcomed all Palestinian refugees and gave them citizenship, instead if recruiting them to fight Israel with a promise to help them go back to their country, which was just the way of Arab nations to neglect these refugees.

Jordan did not listen to Israel’s warnings because it was pressured by the Arab states, so Jordan joined the war and attacked Israeli positions. Seeing that Israel managed to capture Sinai pretty fast, its troops then moved to the West Bank and also managed to occupy it in two days with little fighting.

Think about it, it took only two days to capture this territory. Israel had less than 500 casualties and Jordan had about 700. Think about it, only 1,200 people died fighting over this land in two days. This was probably one of the most insignificant battles in history.

Israel wasn’t used to rule these territories, and although many leaders in Israel wanted to keep the territories, the initial consensus was that this territories should be brought back and now is a chance to demand peace from the Arabs.

Problem was that Jordan refused to negotiate.

All Arab nations sat in the capital of Sudan and issued these statements:

The Arab Heads of State have agreed to unite their political efforts at the international and diplomatic level to eliminate the effects of the aggression and to ensure the withdrawal of the aggressive Israeli forces from the Arab lands which have been occupied since the aggression of 5 June. This will be done within the framework of the main principles by which the Arab States abide, namely, no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country.

So on the one hand, Israel occupied the West Bank to ensure its security from Jordan, as well as from Egypt and Syria with their respective territories, but on the other hand these countries, who wanted Israel to be destroyed, have decided to then boycott any negotiations with Israel to bring these territories back and chose only means of war to bring them back.

Therefore Israel got stuck with these territories, whether if it is good for Israel’s security or not. In the meantime, Israelis who didn’t want to bring back the territories began establishing settlements, because they didn’t really believe the Arabs will ever make peace with Israel so the only way they will get these lands back will be with war, so settling there and turning it into Israeli territory the best thing to do and on the same time, also resettle ancient Jewish lands with religious significance.

Israel couldn’t decide what exactly to do with theses lands because the Arabs couldn’t be trusted to keep peace, so the government never really decided. In the meantime, some Israeli leaders and military commanders either acted as if the territories are going to be returned so they didn’t support establishing settlements deep in the West Bank that were difficult to protect, while others supported building settlements all over the place. Some also made plans to withdraw, like Rabin, who initially withdrew from the Arab lands with the intention to at least let the local Arabs an autonomy. Slightly before, in 1987, Shimon Peres tried to convince the King of Jordan to agree to take back the West Bank for peace, but Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir who was not informed, prevented it from happening and the King was angry so he relinquished all Jordanian claims to the territory, further complicating things.

Netanyahu completed the separation between Jews and Arabs when he gave back Hebron, preventing radical dreams of turning the entire city into a Jewish city. Ariel Sharon withdrew from the Gaza Strip, seeing there is no real point in Israel controlling this territory (oh boy) and from settlements in the northern West Bank.

The Palestinians keep rejecting every Israeli offer and keep sending terrorists to attack Israeli civilians, so Israel continues to act as if the West Bank will never be brought back. Why give people who want to kill you a state?

We are stuck with it.

4 hours ago, Harveyg said:

A chance to disparage Jews?   Anti semitism again?  Wild guess. 

Totally wrong. I have many good Jewish friends back in the UK and my comment was meant to be humorous in these times of doom and gloom on TVF. 

Israeli Embassy gives free food-

Marks & Spencer (Jewish Company) - purveyor of high quality food!!!! So what is anti-semitic in this??? Perhaps the lock-down is getting to your head!

Geez Louise. 

No good deed goes unpunished. 

5 hours ago, Harveyg said:

Therefore Israel got stuck with these territories, whether if it is good for Israel’s security or not.

stuck because they want to, when somebody or something is stuck anybody/everybody will try to un-stuck themselves, if they are stuck they should leave, abandon the land thus no longer stuck ....and btw I am a sephardic jew

6 hours ago, Mavideol said:

 

11 hours ago, Harveyg said:

Therefore Israel got stuck with these territories, whether if it is good for Israel’s security or not.

stuck because they want to, when somebody or something is stuck anybody/everybody will try to un-stuck themselves, if they are stuck they should leave, abandon the land thus no longer stuck ....and btw I am a sephardic jew

 

So instead of quoting only the last sentence, can you show a different analysis as to the choices mentioned and why they are the choices? There are consequences to either choice. And there are potential consequences to your choice, as mentioned. Don’t fixate on stuck. It is not being stuck at all. It’s evaluating the choices and concluding the best option. 

7 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

 

11 hours ago, Harveyg said:

A chance to disparage Jews?   Anti semitism again?  Wild guess. 

Totally wrong. I have many good Jewish friends back in the UK and my comment was meant to be humorous in these times of doom and gloom on TVF. 

Israeli Embassy gives free food-

Marks & Spencer (Jewish Company) - purveyor of high quality food!!!! So what is anti-semitic in this??? Perhaps the lock-down is getting to your head!

 

Firstly I don’t know you.  I’m going by the words only. How many times have I heard people say, “oh, I was only joking.  Lighten up”. Or “some of my best friends are black people.”  Jokes can be a convenient cover.  Is that you in this instance? Perhaps you and your friends can better answer that.  I’m not British so maybe the joke is lost on me. Check with your friends.  Have them read the post.  Ask them what their first reaction is? Then offer your reaction. 
Perhaps you’ll verify what you believe.

Secondly, I can consider everything you wrote except the last sentence. Here you choose to question my mental health. A jab.  Or maybe you meant it as a joke.