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  1. What they have done is genocide, but will Netahyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Gallant, et al ever face justice? It would take severe sanctions for the bubble around the Israeli public to pop, so that they wake up the horrid crimes that many among them have been committing for the last 6 months, not to mention their forbears in the last 100 years.
  2. He /she is probably referring to prehistoric humans. We call them hunter gatherers. They did not practice agriculture, but, by analogy to recent primitive populations, subsisted on plant products such as fruits in addition to hunting. It's possible that they consumed wild greens, but only a few really old stomach contents have been discovered so far. Various cooking methods predate the appearance of pottery.
  3. I believe that his column replaced one by "Maew Mong", a foreigner perhaps named Halliday, who did great Bangkok restaurant reviews. I tried some of these relatively obscure spots - quite impressed. I didn't like Trink's column, either.
  4. Maybe it all comes down to having filed a return. If you don't have to pay anything because your country's tax treaty with Thailand requires Thailand to give a tax credit, e.g. US, then you might not have any tax liability in Thailand, but have to file a return anyway.
  5. Here's a compendium of SMR projects - see attached. SMR_Book_2020.pdf
  6. Why don't you do the first 90-day by post after traveling abroad? I use EMS for sending and for the return envelope as well.
  7. Thanks. I have looked again at the Thai-US treaty and saw the tax credit provision, but if some specific elucidation is possible regarding calculation methodology it would be a great help.
  8. So I would like to know whether a retired US citizen (paying US taxes) can get a credit on Thai taxes on money brought into Thailand under terms of the tax treaty. If so, what kind of income is eligible for credit on the Thai tax return? In my case all income is taxable dividends and interest, not pensions, IRAs, or 401Ks. Thanks.
  9. You are quite right that Israel would not voluntarily agree to any solution - one-state or two-state. It's becoming quite evident to many countries that ethnic cleansing did not stop in 1948, but is an ongoing project of succeeding Israeli governments, only now it is blatant. "National suicide" is one of those dog whistle terms drummed into the national psyche, promoting the siege mentality rendering fair treatment of the Palestinian issue impossible. That's why international opprobrium of Israel and what goes with it may eventually lead to justice for the Palestinians, in spite of the gloomy predictions of Israeli media and politicians.
  10. The settlers have no right to be there (under international law), and Israel should repatriate them (and put the murderers in jail). It's likely that it will require sustained sanctions for Israel to get out of the West Bank.
  11. It's obvious that many Israelis are pro-democracy for themselves, but not for Palestinians. Look at the demonstrations against Netanyahu's plan for amending the basic law concerning their Supreme Court, but the media in Israel brainwashes people to have a negative attitude demonizing Palestinians. So when 7 October happened, it was very easy for politicians and the military to incite genocidal thoughts. Until the bubble of existential paranoia is popped, it will be impossible to have peace in the Middle East. Lebanon used to be a country with many religious groups living in harmony despite foreign interference, such as US in 1958, Israeli overflights in the late 60s which I saw, then the 1975-90 Civil War when power sharing broke down, and IDF invasions in 1982 and 2006. Some people there really want a non-sectarian democracy, but the French set up a system that perpetuates sectarian divisions which has finally led to a kleptocracy that has bled the country to death.
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