Thailand protests to Israel over Hezbollah attacks

Guten Morgen, World. Straight Outta Nong Bon Thailand, this is the early (Bulldog) edition of Fishwrap for the very first Tuesday of the month of November 4.
Can you just feel the building excitement? 24 hours to go, Thailand time!
PHOTOS This is a balanced selection of BBC footage showing compassion, caring Christian virtues and mad people.

Trump sees the Ten Commandments more as a To-Do list.
 -- Jo Brand, presenteress and hostette, Limey TV show Have I Got News For You.

Thailand writes official protest to Israel
Only Israel. Ung Ing and her newest Thai government claim they are totally neutral about it. But the Jews should feel their anger.
The protest letter ... none of that face-to-face stuff, neither in Bangkok nor Tel Aviv ...
The protest letter claims that Jewish employers on kibutzes are sending some of the 30,000 Thai agricultural workers to unsafe areas to work, and that is how four of the Isan workers were killed by rockets by Lebanon-based Hezbollah. The nerve!
No reaction from Israel (yet) but from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on down, deskbound bureaucrats in Bangkok and some provinces are warning Israel-bound workers to, well, be careful. Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa has advised all Thai citizens to postpone any plans they have to travel to Israel. Maris invoked Thailand's new temporary membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council in order to call for peace in the Mideast.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2894872/

PHOTOS:  (below): Grandma Bun-Paeng speaks about the death of her son in the Hezbollah attack, and the birthday sorrow the worker's 11-year-old boy (in photo). Also below, an after-attack photo of the spot where an Israeli farmer and his four Thai workers were killed last week by Hezbollah.
Details at Khao Sod (Fresh News)

THAILAND POLITICS THAKSIN
The Prosecution Is the Punishment
A committee of Thai Members of Parliament has (barely) started an investigation of Thaksin's time in Police General Hospital. Did he really get privileged treatment?
Well, thre are almost as many opinions about that as there are Thai citizens -- 65 million or so. This new committee, first meeting on Thursday, will try to get real answers, for once.

The primary reason for this "investigation" remains to keep Thaksin, his family and close supporters tied up with such legal matters.
Thaksin returned to Thailand after 16 years in self-exile, mostly in Dubai, but the Thaksin-haters are as lively now as they were when making city-wide protests in 2005-06 that caused a coup d'etat by the Royal Thai Army. When his sister was cleanly elected as prime minister in 2011, anti-Thaksin stalwarts again hit the streets, openly attempting to Shut Down Bangkok. In May, 2014, the army stepped in with a coup administration that lasted 10 years and destroyed much of the political tradition.
Not all, of course. Current Prime Minister: Paethongtarn Shinawatra, better known as Ung-Ing, with Thaksin at her side, or by some accounts overriding her.
The chance of an objective answer to Thaksin's hospital stay and current political role is close to but not exactly zero.
Much more at: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2895308/
PHOTO: Thaksin remains under political guns.

USA VIN (Very Important News)
"Transgender" Bro Sues Hooters For Not Hiring Him
Chain Had Previously Banned Him For Sexually Harassing Waitresses
She is as brave as she is stunning.
From the Daily Mail U.S.: https://t.ly/U1KcH

Leader of Rohingya smuggling gang arrested
It feels like 2015 all over again -- human trafficking, mostly of Rohingya Muslim refugees from western Burma, with extorted kickbacks and killings
Royal Thai Police have (finally) tracked down a Thai man and two "helpers" who (allegedly) smuggled people from Bangladesh and Myanmar by boat, into the southern province of Chumphon. And then killed them all.
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division arrested Somkiat Samphaothong, 30, in eastern Chanthaburi province on Friday and then, in coordinated operations, caught two 20-year-old 'assistants' in Bangkok.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2894748/

PHOTO: Royal Thai policeman questions suspect Somkiat immecdiately after his arrest in eastern Thailand.

ENGLAND YOUTHFUL IDIOTS
The story is that GenZer Pommies actually line up at pubs in order to get to the bar and order the typical Englisher's warm flat beer. Or whatever. The story (cont'd) is that these young people were trained during Covid to line up instead of following the time-tested Limey tradition of wading in and shouting at the barkeep.
To which the Daily Star (also Limey) added the headline.

We clearly stated already that they are Poms. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14007565/Pubs-UK-plead-Gen-Z-punters-stop-forming-single-file-queues-bar.html

Unthinkable a generation ago. Now a real poser.
Could the U.S. Navy defeat today's Chinese PLA Navy?
With a highly credible answer of "Nah".

Worth a full read, from the well-respected Daily Telegraph
U.S. Navy risks entering the same death spiral that crippled the Royal Navy.
Extending ships beyond design life is not a sign that things are going well.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/03/us-navy-royal-navy-life-extension-old-ships-arleigh-burke/

Meanwhile, in Thailand
Three (3) reporters write at length on an old case, with current importance.
Critics slam 'failure of justice' in Tak Bai massacre case
Observers warn that the security situation in the South may worsen.
First, note that there are only a teensy number of critics, all well known.
But then note that the alleged "observers" never are identified in any manner, proving only that anyone, even three reporters of the Bangkok Post daily newspaper can invent and publish "fears" that they just made up, and then note that these unidentified 'insurgents' could cause unrest sometime in the future -- but maybe they also could not? For certain their cherry-picked 'critics' are mad as hell that those most responsible for the undoubtable 'massacre' of October 25, 2004, will never even be interrogated, let alone made an example with a serious prison sentence. Or, better, worse.

All three Writers are seasoned reporters, expected to know how to investigate and to analyse confusing stories for their readers:
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Apinya Wipatayotin, Wassayos Ngamkham
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2895012/

But do remember at least, please, that there's one overreaching reason for the total lack of justice in the case of the Tak Bai massacre of 2004,
and that reason is 20 years of government indifference, including the (alleged) 10-year administration of the 2014 military coup by the usurping Royal Thai Army General Prayut Chan-o-cha, who actually did everything in his power to prevent any investigation, interrogation or justice in the case.
Prayut has not fled abroad like some of the accused. He serves on the Privy Council of royalty, particularly King Vajiralongkorn, Rama X. It's a lifetime appointment.
ANALYSIS by Chairith Yonpiam. assistant news editor, Bangkok Post.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2894677/