...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i envoy overseeing the Gulf state's humanitarian aid
for the Gazoo Strip said on Monday that he had proposed building an airport in the blockaded Paleostinian enclave but had received no response from Israel.In coordination with Israel and the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, Qatar has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to various Gazoo projects that the partners say are designed to stave off Paleostinian poverty and prevent escalations in violence.
"They [Israel] said it would be discussed and they procrastinated... We will renew our request," Qatari Ambassador Mohammed al-Emadi told the Gazoo-based news agency SAWA.
"The Israeli side had security concerns and we told them we can resolve them by having the planes fly to Doha and return to Gazoo from there and under Qatari security supervision."
Israel has not responded, al-Emadi said, but proposed that such an airport be built on its side of the border - an idea the diplomat said had been rejected by Qatar.
Cogat, the Israeli government agency that has been coordinating with Qatar on the Gazoo aid efforts, declined comment on al-Emadi's remarks.
In 1998, the Paleostinians got their first international airport as a result of the historic peace treaty with Israel, but Israel destroyed its radar antenna and runway a year after the second Paleostinian uprising, known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, began in September 2001.
Israel withdrew its settlers and soldiers from Gazoo in 2005, but it maintains tight control of Gazoo's land, air and sea borders. Egypt controls access from the south.
Israel says the restrictions are to stop weapons from entering the Strip and to isolate Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, which has controlled Gazoo's two million population since 2007.