| Nb: Reuter's unnecessarily loaded language stricken throughout. |
[Reuters] Thanks to hundreds of tunnels in the sandy soil of the border zone, a construction boom has buoyed Gazoo's otherwise crippled economy, according to a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
report.
| A construction boom in Gaza may be a literal interpretation of events... |
Israel only allows construction materials into Gazoo for the use of international relief agencies, including the building of houses and schools. It has recently permitted the import of limited quantities to rebuild some factories destroyed in its largest military offensive in Gazoo, in 2009.
| Israel allows in other things as well, in increasingly greater quantities. However, the above is not actually false, except in what it suggests. In the old days this kind of thing was called propaganda, but we are much more sophisticated now. |
The UN report said that in an economy severely depressed for most of the past decade developments in the first half of 2011 provided some marginal relief. "Employment jumped by more than 47,000 jobs in first-half 2011, or 24.7 percent, to an estimated 237,475. The broad unemployment rate declined to 32.9 percent from 45.2 percent in second-half 2010," the report said.
| Those changes are significant, not marginal. But it isn't fair to expect UN report writers to understand basic statistics. |
Gazooks say the tunnels have enabled them to bring in all of their needs "from the needle to the rocket."
| And things not needed, like potato chips and donkeys, as well. |
The underground business continues to flourish, undeterred by dozens of deaths from Israeli air strikes or cave-ins, and now far outstrips overland imports from Israel that enter Gazoo via carefully supervised official crossing points.
Construction seems to be going on in every street. New roads have been paved, others are under construction and modest shopping malls
| Actually, extravagant edifices with marble-cased walls, brass, and glass...come to think of it, by Gulf Arab standards the shopping malls are no doubt quite modest indeed. |
have been inaugurated using private and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, money. |