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2006-06-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gold market's glitter a portent of gloom for many Palestinians

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Posted by ryuge 2006-06-01 08:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gawd. What does it take before the Pals make a cause/effect understanding?

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-01 09:38|| 2006-06-01 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey Paleos! Want to know where you can find sympathy in the dictionary?

Posted by mac 2006-06-01 10:01|| 2006-06-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 How could they afford jewelry?

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-06-01 10:11|| 2006-06-01 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 OK, let's pause an appropriate amount of time while I play a dirge on the world's tiniest violin, in honor of the paleo-suffering. OK, that's long enough.

You reap what you sow, you bastards. Enjoy starvation.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-06-01 10:46|| 2006-06-01 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 "The people have become the victims of ~~the governments~~ their own anti-semitic death cult allen-worshiping murderous psychosis".

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-01 10:54|| 2006-06-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 More than 160,000 government employees, who support about a third of the Palestinian population, have gone unpaid for nearly three months, deepening poverty and crippling business activity.

Hey, does this mean about 33% of the work force is employed by the government? I'm very impressed, in France it's only 24-25%. It's not everyday we're beaten at the statist game.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-01 13:05|| 2006-06-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 They elected hamas partly to poke America in the eye.

Well, how does it taste?

Posted by Uneretch Uneregum1456 2006-06-01 15:59|| 2006-06-01 15:59|| Front Page Top

#8 How could they afford jewelry?

Lots of middle eastern women wear gold as a form of family savings for emergencies. My Taiwanese friends do the same, on the grounds that if you have to flee a country quickly the gold is portable and may feed your family or pay a bribe to get them out alive.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-01 16:26|| 2006-06-01 16:26|| Front Page Top

#9 It isn't just that for Muslim women, lotp. If they've been triple-talaq (?) divorced, they must leave with only what they are wearing. Thus they make a point of wearing the family wealth to ensure they have something to live on, and to make the whole exercise expensive for the husband, who otherwise has no reason not to divorce them on a whim... or so it was explained to me.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-01 16:42|| 2006-06-01 16:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The government was chosen by the people," Abu Nada added, echoing an argument often heard here, that the Palestinians are being punished for their vote for Hamas in January elections

Yup, you chose a party that represents terror, horror, violence and death. Why are you suprised when you immediately experience what you voted for?

How do like your choice so far? Thinking about changing your minds yet? Oh, forgot. You don't have minds, just a death wish.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-01 19:56|| 2006-06-01 19:56|| Front Page Top

#11 serve as a security in case of divorce or economic hard times.

And just what's so hard to understand here, economic hard times are here and the Gold is fulfulling it's designed purpose.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-06-01 20:07|| 2006-06-01 20:07|| Front Page Top

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