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2007-07-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 No caviar for Ging.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-10 01:53|| 2007-07-10 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 One million fewer Palestinians located there would minimize the humanitarian crisis, wouldn't it?

Posted by Kofi Throluth2328 2007-07-10 03:30|| 2007-07-10 03:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess Hamas will have to do without the hardened bunkers and reenforced fighting holes.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-10 07:54|| 2007-07-10 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, man. Gaza was the jewel of the Mediterranean because of the effectiveness of the UN. Without them, it will probably have soaring unemployment and violence.

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-07-10 08:47|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-07-10 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 When has there not been a "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza? And when will these UN goombas start realizing when they constantly use phrases like "humanitarian crisis", most people hit the internal "off" switch in their head?
I'll bet the lack of Israeli sewer pipe has crippled the Gaza ~~space program~~ metal shop sector.

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-10 09:36|| 2007-07-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 When has there not been a "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza?

Response :

Although statistics specifically for Gaza are hard to come by, an important 2002 Commentary article by Efraim Karsh noted that under the Israeli occupationmore fairly termed administrationthat began in 1967, Gaza and the West Bank in fact made astounding social and economic progress:

In the economic sphere, most of this . . . was the result of access to the . . . Israeli economy: the number of Palestinians working in Israel rose from zero in 1967 to 66,000 in 1975 and 109,000 by 1986, accounting for 35 percent of the employed population of the West Bank and 45 percent in Gaza. Close to 2,000 industrial plants, employing almost half of the work force, were established in the territories under Israeli rule.

During the 1970's, the West Bank and Gaza constituted the fourth fastest-growing economy in the worldahead of such "wonders"as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea, and substantially ahead of Israel itself. . . . GNP per capita grew somewhat more slowly, [but] expand[ed] tenfold between 1968 and 1991 from $165 to $1,715. . . . By 1999, Palestinian per-capita income was nearly double Syria's, more than four times Yemen's, and 10 percent higher than Jordan's. . . . Only the oil-rich Gulf states and Lebanon were more affluent.
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perhaps most strikingly, during the two decades preceding the intifada of the late 1980s, the number of schoolchildren in the territories grew by 102 percent, and the number of classes by 99 percent, though the population itself had grown by only 28 percent. Even more dramatic was the progress in higher education. At the time of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, not a single university existed in these territories. By the early 1990s, there were seven such institutions, boasting some 16,500 students. Illiteracy rates dropped to 14 percent of adults over age 15, compared with 69 percent in Morocco, 61 percent in Egypt, 45 percent in Tunisia, and 44 percent in Syria.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-10 09:40|| 2007-07-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 See, A5089, it's all the Jooooos fault - if they hadn't started the intifada, Gaza would be a paradise by now.
Oh,wait...

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-07-10 09:43|| 2007-07-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Jeebus, you mean that Gaza (at one time) was actually better off than Syria? Say it ain't so! Actually, for that "neck of the woods," that's pretty good progress. Now, if only the dang Joos hadn't ruined it all (/sarcasm).

Posted by BA 2007-07-10 09:45|| 2007-07-10 09:45|| Front Page Top

#9 What the hell is Hamas using all the stolen cement for ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-10 11:01|| 2007-07-10 11:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Black market resell and/or building bunkers lines?

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-10 11:04|| 2007-07-10 11:04|| Front Page Top

#11 a5089, the jooos really could be the best friends the paleos ever had. But then that would be unIslamic. I'm sure the Soddies were not pleased by all this economic progress because it would only go to show that the jooos are not so bad after all and allan couldn't have that.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-10 12:05|| 2007-07-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Well WXjames, I think it was probably to imitate the infidels' concrete bombs, but they got the instructions wrong and ended up with this instead:

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-07-10 14:22|| 2007-07-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Our local paper carried an AP story that said shortages threatens 121,000 Paleo jobs because of irael's border closures. Israel is not responsible for damage to buildings in the Gaza strip detroyed by Hamas and Fatah. Why should they open their border? Why doesn't Egypt open their border to the UN? Why doesn't Gaza manufacture their own cement? Why don't the Paleos build a port? Weapons don't have any difficulty getting into Gaza.

F8ck the UN and the Paleos. I don't have any sympathy for them. They made their own bed now they have to lay in it.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-10 14:48|| 2007-07-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#14 I saw something elsewhere that Hamas are blocking imports of Israeli fruits and vegetables at the border. God forbid Palestinian bodies be polluted by Jewish foodstuffs!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-10 15:06|| 2007-07-10 15:06|| Front Page Top

#15 I wonder how the Gazans would react if they were told that every breath of air they take contains molecules that have previously been inhaled by Jews. Maybe they would all stop ~~seething~~ breathing.

I read that, statistically speaking, with each breath you inhale an atom that passed through Einstein's lungs and even those of the dinosaurs.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-10 15:24|| 2007-07-10 15:24|| Front Page Top

#16 EU6305, the British assumed that would happen when they accepted the Palestine Mandate in the early 1920's. The reality, of course, was that the Arabs simply couldn't stand that another, more capable and competent people, quickly showed them up as lazy, ignorant and feckless. Instead of being grateful for the improvements the Jews brought, they just made the Arabs hate them more. I truly believe that Islam can be legitimately defined as a form of dementia.

Posted by Mac 2007-07-10 18:40|| 2007-07-10 18:40|| Front Page Top

#17 I am convinced islam is a form of mental illness.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-10 20:03|| 2007-07-10 20:03|| Front Page Top

#18 As has been said before, many times in the past, the U.N. sucks, the Arabic world is still living in the 7th century and Islam is nothing but bull$hit. Damn, sometimes it feels good to just rant...nowadimean??

Posted by WolfDog 2007-07-10 21:04|| 2007-07-10 21:04|| Front Page Top

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