Thread: Gaza rocket kills Thai worker

Gaza rocket kills Thai worker
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip today, killing a Thai farm worker.

The attack came as the European Union's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.

Ms Ashton had crossed into the Gaza Strip from Israel about an hour before the attack, the first deadly strike from the territory since the end in January 2009 of Israel's Gaza war.

An unknown Gaza group, Ansar al-Sunna, claimed responsibility for the attack, launched a day before the international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators was to meet in Moscow to discuss ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Israeli police and the Magen David Adom ambulance service said the rocket struck Netiv Ha'asara, an agricultural community, killing a Thai worker.
Palestinian militants have been carrying out sporadic rocket and mortar bomb attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, usually without causing any casualties.

The number of such strikes has dropped dramatically since the December 2008-January 2009 war that Israel launched in the Gaza Strip with the declared aim of ending such attacks.

Israel has responded to strikes since the war with air raids, targeting militants and suspected weapons-manufacturing facilities in the territory.

Hamas Islamists, who seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 in fighting with forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, have been urging other militant groups not to mount attacks on Israel, voicing concern about retaliation.

Ansar al-Sunna, a name also used by al-Qaeda allies in Iraq and similar to names used in the Gaza Strip, indicated the group belongs to hardline Salafist factions in the Palestinian enclave which have challenged Hamas.

Reuters

irishtimes.com

A Thai worker in Israel ????
Weird.

Lots of them there working as labourers.

Originally Posted by Happyman

A Thai worker in Israel ????
Weird.

More common ten years ago.

There is a female Mod on TV who is married to a Thai and lives in Israel. I think she oversees the Isaan forum. If she married a Thai she must be one ugly mother fcuker ? I think her nick is "Bina".

there's something like 15,000 Thai workers in Israel at any one time.

the first Thais I ever met, and even the first Thai food I ever tasted, was in Israel.

they made a big attempt to recruit Thais following firstly, the exodus of Thais from Saudi following the gem scandal in the late 80s, and then secondly, after the first Gulf War resulted in the supply of volunteer workers from Europe drying up completely.

they have a reputation of being good, industrious workers with useful background in agriculture.

the workers are recruited from the sticks typically on 2 year contracts and they are paid around 2 dollars an hour, more with overtime. They are usually put to work on agricultural moshavs rather than kibbutzes. At least 90% are male.

some Thais settle in Israel quasi-permanently. Back in the 90s, there were several Thai-style eateries that served baguettes with Thai fillings. They were quite the trendy thing in Jerusalem at the time.

some Thais also intermarry with Israelis. I think that the Thai owner of the Jerusalem Felafel in Chiang Mai met his Israeli wife while he was working somewhere in Israel.

this isn't the first time a Thai worker has been killed by a rocket. When the Israelis still had their settlements in Gaza, I remember a story about one being killed back in 2004.

^ December 2005. Jitladda Tap-arsa aged 20. Female

I think several Thais may have been killed in Gaza, I think the 2004 one was shot in a gun battle after militants infiltrated the settlement. Thailand's foreign ministry I think eventually requested the Israelis evacuate all the Thais from Gaza shortly before the pullout - but they never said for Thais to leave Israel itself.

Female Thai workers in Israel are pretty rare. I worked on moshav in the Negev in 1994. There were around 100 Thais there and about 50 Europeans. Out of those 100, only a handful were women. The Thai guys were pleased to find that the European girls found them exotic and interesting.

They keep doing this shit, they know the Jews will react and then they run crying about civilians getting knocked off and they want to fight with civilians as shields,, typical Islamic strategy.

I was based there in 2000 and had 50-60 of them on slave wages.

I had 40 Thai welders on the offshore loading facility at Basra Iraq in the mid 70's and they were paid $2.50 an hour and guarenteed 84 hours a week pay, work or not.
After we got it up enough to run it we had a lot of time with no work as they were loading sweet crude and during that time there was no smoking or working for the welders.

Originally Posted by callippo

they have a reputation of being good, industrious workers

I thought the stereotypical Thai was meant to be a lazy, good-for-nothing yokel?

Originally Posted by Beadle

Originally Posted by callippo

they have a reputation of being good, industrious workers

I thought the stereotypical Thai was meant to be a lazy, good-for-nothing yokel?

Maybe it is the same as with the Filipinos. They are known as good workers abroad but nothing gets done in their home country.

The reason may be that good work does not pay off at home?

Obviously the Thai persons fault as if he was home in Thailand where he belonged he would not have been killed.


And the Lady from Jerusalem falafel in Chiang Mai is one nasty ugly fucking porker of a female and the man whore she married must have the constitution of a bull if he was able to mount her.

Originally Posted by Mid

Gaza rocket kills Thai worker

Damn those Israelis and their Zionist masters -- they are the ones that willed that rocket onto that innocent Thai; and they are the ones that did nothing while the Paleys fired that rocket; worse, they are doing nothing in retaliation, and for that they shall be punished with more rockets... those damn, evil Israelis...

the Thais were on a pretty good gig really on the moshav I was on. The high season was like December to June, they had to work 16-18 hour days then, but the rest of the year there was no cropping and less work, and they could take it easy. They were paid more than the European volunteers. We got something like 4.6 shekels an hour ; they got 6.5. The little group I was in, one Irish guy and one South African, had to fight to 'prove ourselves' before we got the Thai rate. The Israelis finally admitted ; 'OK. Now we've seen you work like a Thai, we'll pay you like a Thai'. LOL.

most of the Europeans were right dossers compared to the Thais.

it was good for the Thais as because it was on a massive farm, they could scrounge all their vegetables and didn't have to spend too much in the shop. They managed to get their supplies of big sacks of Thai rice and ingredients like lemongrass, etc, to make their meals Thai-style shipped in somehow. With overtime, they could easily save $800 a month, even in the mid-90s. Especially for the single guys, who didn't have to send money home, they could save what for them would be a fortune in their two years. I didn't know Thailand at all in those days as I didn't visit until several years later, but it was obvious they were all from poorish, agricultural backgrounds, I would imagine predominately from the north and north east.

there were loads of Swedish and Danish birds coming and going and shagging everything that moved. The few Thai women there did nothing for me. Only later on did I find out they look a lot more attractive in a bikini holding on to a pole in a gogo bar than covered from head to foot against the desert sun, wearing balaclavas, and bent down picking tomatoes.

A case of wrong place at the wrong time. Consider that a wasted rocket then. Hope she has no kids waiting at home. R.I.P.

really sad isn't it, especially when you think how the news may be relayed to the home.

Thai friend of mine in Taiwan works for a large company, a young Thai male OFW died, not on the job though i.e. at work. Just somebody on the work roll that had died, as everyone does, eventually. Just a little bit strange that the guy appeared to die in his sleep age 22.

because she was Thai, she got the job of ringing up and telling the northern Thai relatives, not only telling them their son was dead, but that their son would cease being paid by the company the day he died and would no longer be sending them money. I didn't ask, but I doubt very much the guy's body got back to Thailand.

Originally Posted by Mid

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip today, killing a Thai farm worker.

I'd say they overshot Israel by a few thousand kilometers....

Originally Posted by callippo

'OK. Now we've seen you work like a Thai, we'll pay you like a Thai'.

In other cases I would have taken that as an insult.

Thailand is in a lot better shape entrepreneurially than the Philippines. If you're ready to work, you've got a decent chance of making a business pay in Thailand.

I'm talking about Thais, of course - not foreigners. Foreigners' viability rates, with the same amount of capital, are much lower.

callipo if you like israel that much give me your bank details an i'll put you on the first rocket back there

every time I get reports of OFW's getting killed, it's just shit. It's terrible. Somebody has to tell their families that they've lost a loved one. This particular Thai might just have easily lost their life in a traffic accident back home.

Get back to your kibbutz

Originally Posted by corned dog

Get back to your kibbutz

Why would you say a thing like that??
I think that they are a very nice and thoughtful poster and I gave em a green, now one for you.