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2006-05-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas sanctions squeeze the life out of West Bank

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Posted by lotp 2006-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Schadenfreude, anyone?

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-05-07 00:34|| 2006-05-07 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 welfare queens... Israel created an oasis and a first-world economy in the desert. You could too if you had any initiative and quite your stupid whining seething ways. STFU and get about it or disappear into the sands.... either way is OK with me. No more funds!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-07 00:35|| 2006-05-07 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 One could cut the irony with a knife.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-05-07 01:04|| 2006-05-07 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-07 09:35|| 2006-05-07 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 When people are put in a position of having to work for a living, of doing something or starving, they will often rise to the task. The Paleos now face the conundrum that for all their violence, gunman do not bring home the bacon--there is no money in it.

It would be best if no more aid is forthcoming. If they want food-grow it; don't use fallow fields to launch Qassam rockets. If you want to keep your houses, do not allow snipers to use them for cover.

Most of all, the Paleo people need to insist that the money that enters the territories be used for the people. All of it. Not a dime for war.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-07 10:02|| 2006-05-07 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I feel sorry for these poor dumb people, but that's the bummer of self rule. Sometimes what you think you want isn't what you need. Better luck in your next round of elections.

Posted by 2b 2006-05-07 10:08|| 2006-05-07 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 given to me by my husband as a dowry on my wedding day
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Ima thought Daddy did that.

I expect $700 oz. gold might have something to do with this too.

Posted by 6 2006-05-07 10:35|| 2006-05-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 It's funny, I recall the PA getting some prime real-estate with green-houses and farms months ago, yet I also remember them tearing it apart in celebration. Betcha they wish the place was still working now.

Posted by Charles 2006-05-07 15:14|| 2006-05-07 15:14|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll try to skip the schadenfreude, and try to stick to pity, though it is extra effort. And pity them the more because as far as I can see their only hope for a better life lies at the far side of an exhausting bloody civil war. A conflict that is less than exhausting isn't going to burn away their "love for death." And even with such a war there's no guarantee.

Posted by James">James 2006-05-07 23:39|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-05-07 23:39|| Front Page Top

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