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Paleos Starving, so Hamas plans to build $200m. Hollywood-style media city

2007-11-08

They've discovered that propaganda works well, especially with a willing audience.
It's a tale worthy of its own movie script: The Gaza Strip's isolated and cash-strapped Hamas rulers plan to build a $200 million (140 million) media city and movie production house that will be part tourist attraction and part effort to cement control of the territory it seized by force in June.

So far, though, the Islamic group has raised only a tiny fraction of the money it needs for its own Hollywood, at a time when the Gaza economy has ground to a standstill and its people are struggling to feed themselves because of Israeli and international sanctions against the Islamic group listed as a terror organization.

Posted by:PlanetDan

#9 I hear their first blockbuster involves an exploding humvee.

Posted by: Canukistan 2007-11-08 17:31

#8 #7 Sure.
They can't even get a cesspool built
Sure they can, its the watertight part of it that keeps them up at night.....

Posted by: USN,Ret. 2007-11-08 14:49

#7 Sure.
They can't even get a cesspool built.

Posted by: tu3031 2007-11-08 10:12

#6 I can see the Universal Studios rip-offs now: "Men In Black" becomes "Women In Black", "Jimmy Neutron" becomes "Jimmy Jihad", the kids help E.T. head to Mecca...

Posted by: Darrell 2007-11-08 09:57

#5 It will never happen. Given the leve of corruption and graft, it would take 200 billion to build a 20 million project...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-11-08 09:34

#4 "If Israel has any brains, they'll let Hamas sink every last cent of their $200 million into this fantasy factory and then blow it straight to hell on opening night"

It did occur to me that perhaps this is not the optimal time to be making an investment of this magnitude in such an obvious target, though perhaps they expect to keep kids there 24/7 as human shields.

Posted by: Liberalhawk 2007-11-08 09:23

#3 If Israel has any brains

Trying to spoil my day, Zen?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-11-08 08:12

#2 Zahar has written seven novels, including a 1980 romance called "Beautiful Woman."

it's a novel about a wealthy Hamas businessman who procures a hooker for the night and falls in love... but he has a wart on his nose and she thinks it makes him handsome....

Posted by: Frank G 2007-11-08 07:43

#1 This would all be the usual laughable and pathetic Palestinian misappropriation of funds save for one thing: Islam in general and the Palestinians in particular are past masters at manipulating media outlets for propaganda purposes. Couple this with how incredibly effective even the most obvious fabrications are within the abjectly credulous environs of Islamic culture and there is little doubt that Hamas could well make this into one well-oiled propaganda machine.

If Israel has any brains, they'll let Hamas sink every last cent of their $200 million into this fantasy factory and then blow it straight to hell on opening night.

Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-08 01:55

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