Thai ambassador advises workers to delay return to Israel amidst conflict

[snoop1130]

 

The ambassador of Thailand to Israel, Pannabha Chandraramya, advised Thai workers who have recently returned from Israel to refrain from going back due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. She updated on the situation during a meeting involving 97 of the nation’s high-ranking overseas representatives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

Pannabha suggested that those who had returned from Israel should wait for the resolution of the Israel-Hamas conflict before deciding to resume their work in the country. She revealed that some Thai workers have already returned to Israel, but the exact number remains unknown. It is believed that they arrived in Israel via third-party countries.

 

The Israeli government has been enticing foreign workers to stay and work in the country. For some Thai workers burdened with significant debts, these incentives have become too attractive to resist, Pannabha said.

 

“I’d prefer them to hold on for a while as we are assessing the situation to ensure their safety before permitting Thai workers to return.”

 

Approximately 300 Thais have voluntarily chosen to stay in the designated red or danger zones, despite the embassy’s repeated attempts to convince them to leave.

 

By Mitch Connor

Caption: Picture courtesy of Bangkok Post

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-11-23

 

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[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The ambassador of Thailand to Israel, Pannabha Chandraramya, advised Thai workers who have recently returned from Israel to refrain from going back due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Finger on the pulse as usual.

[Sydebolle]

Maybe H.E. might address the issue domestically. 

If, i.e.   I F   all those workers would be given jobs on a salary level compared to what they get in Israel, Scandinavia or Northern Africa, or Singapore or Hong Kong, then ......... they might stay in Thailand enjoying much better life among friends and loved ones. 

Israel or any other foreign country has to deal with their own problem, so maybe it is time for Thailand to focus a little more on upgrading its work force and remuneration of the latter to an acceptable level. Many Thais do not live the life, they merely exist from one pay to the next. As the latter is that poor, the education so below-level and the soap operas such an escape of the harsh reality of real life ..... nothing will change. 

Ironically, the very same country, instead of concentrating on its own people, is busy with keeping fugitive PMs in a 5* confinement of unclear and certainly much more luxurious conditions than the average Joe in Bang Kwang or Klong Prem. The same leadership's primus-inter-pares on the navy "prefers" submarines without engines over anything else - of course the man is clean as a whistle and no repetition of the Rolls Royce bribery as with Thai Airways (which never got addressed domestically) is possible, as the said submarines come without engines to start with.

So this certainly able head of Thai mission in Israel might not only warn its fellow citizen to delay but possibly tell the higher-ups to start looking into some local, long overdue, alternatives - me thinks ;-)