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2007-07-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 Well, Gaza has borders with Egypt and a sea coast. Go complain to the Egyptians. Typical crap of laying a trip on Israel. Israel needs to turn off the electric power and advise Hamas to find other sources of fresh water, as the valves into Gaza will be turned off in the near future.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-07-05 04:32|| 2007-07-05 04:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the Pali's are getting a lesson in modern economics.
It's a simple market forces kneejerk reaction by Israel.
Since the major Hamas goods exported to Israel were KASSAM ROCKETS a market glutt was created for this type of merchandize. Israel has therefore decided to close the border passes in order to prevent a total collapse of ther Kassam Rocket Industry which would totaly annihilate the (non-existant) Pali economy.
As a matter of fact, we have also decided to export back to Gaza aimilar products (Artillery shells, HELLFIRE missiles and plain good old 7.62 mm ammo) courtessy of the IAF and IDF.

So you see, we are simply allowing market forces free play - while hoping to give the HAMAS "democraticaly elected" Gov'mint a free lesson in the old "Cause and Effect " theory :)

Posted by Elder of Zion 2007-07-05 04:46|| 2007-07-05 04:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The Gaza Strip has an economy? Who knew?

Posted by Mike 2007-07-05 06:34|| 2007-07-05 06:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The price of flour has increased by 34 percent, powdered milk by 30% and rice by 20%.

They've got a long way to go to catch up with Zim-Bob-way, but I know they can make it with Allah's help.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-05 06:48|| 2007-07-05 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 My Sympathy Meter reads a much greater number, albeit with a negative sign.

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-07-05 09:15|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-07-05 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 "...threatens to turn its 1.4 million residents into charity cases, ..."

Um, did I miss something here? Haven't they ALWAYS been charity cases? Isn't that what they've been bitching about all along, that since they elected Hamas, they haven't been getting their handout???

Oh I'm so confused.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-07-05 09:23|| 2007-07-05 09:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Their money should have a picture of a pile of rubble with the words "We did this to ourselves" underneath...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-07-05 09:25|| 2007-07-05 09:25|| Front Page Top

#8 ...threatens to turn its 1.4 million residents into charity cases...

Weren't they already? How many billions has the world poured into this bottomless money pit?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-05 09:39|| 2007-07-05 09:39|| Front Page Top

#9 G*d, I'm so ashamed---because these mutants are my countrymen.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-05 09:48|| 2007-07-05 09:48|| Front Page Top

#10 How can you ruin something that does not exist?
Virtual ruin?

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-05 11:02|| 2007-07-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Cry to Hamass

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-07-05 13:25|| 2007-07-05 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 This is a reverse of the blockade of the Straits of Tiran tht lead to the Six Day War.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-05 13:50|| 2007-07-05 13:50|| Front Page Top

#13 You know, money doesn't just evaporate, it's spent somewhere.
Where do the Gazans buy groceries?
Does Israel provide water free? Gasoline, motor oil, tires, furniture, etc. they have to get it from somewhere (No snarks please about all going to the widows and orphans ammunition fund, you have to have food to live.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-07-05 19:22|| 2007-07-05 19:22|| Front Page Top

#14 I believe the Palestinians are in the habit of letting their bill paying fall in arrears, Redneck Jim. If I recall correctly, the Israeli government has paid over money to the utility companies on more than one occasion.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-05 20:23|| 2007-07-05 20:23|| Front Page Top

#15 The virtually total closure imposed on the Gaza Strip since Hamas's takeover in June has almost destroyed the Palestinian economy and threatens to turn its 1.4 million residents into charity cases, Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, charged in a report released Wednesday.

The article then goes on at length detailing Palestinian misery with great care. Miraculously, the author neglects to mention exactly why Israel has closed the borders. As is so often the case, Israel's own survival is entirely disregarded if it is at odds with Palestinian welfare (in every sense).

At least Ya'alon has sufficient courage to loudly announce the possiblity of Gaza's utilities being shut off:

Israel must treat the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as an "enemy entity" and should "disengage" from providing water, electricity and other supplies to the volatile coastal strip where an estimated 1.4 million people live.

The deleterious effects of electing Hamas must be seared into the Palestinians' collective memory with a white hot branding iron. Israel will have few such golden opportunities in the future.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-05 21:48|| 2007-07-05 21:48|| Front Page Top

#16 It couldn't hurt to blink the lights now and then. Why do people with fanatical allegiance to a 7th century cult need electricity anyway?

Posted by Darrell 2007-07-05 22:03|| 2007-07-05 22:03|| Front Page Top

#17 It couldn't hurt to blink the lights now and then. Why do people with fanatical allegiance to a 7th century cult need electricity anyway?

thanks Darrell for that perspicacious suggestion and sapient question.
>:)

Posted by RD 2007-07-05 22:30|| 2007-07-05 22:30|| Front Page Top

#18 Does anyone know the conversion ratio between Give-A-Shits and Rat's Asses?

Posted by Ol Dirty American 2007-07-05 22:40|| 2007-07-05 22:40|| Front Page Top

#19 mathBeehard Ol Dirty American and ratiosBeeharder!

>:)

Posted by RD 2007-07-05 23:04|| 2007-07-05 23:04|| Front Page Top

#20 The average person carries approximately 5 to 20 pounds of dried fecal matter in the system, so we'll settle for a median of 12.5 pounds of excrement divided into an average of three daily bowel movements rendering something less than 4.2 pounds per given grunt-like action.

A rat's average weight is some 350 grams with its gluteal hindquarters accounting for some 120 grams total.

Therefore a rough conversion between Give-A-Shits and Rats' Asses would represent a ratio of some 4.2 pounds per grunt-like-action into approximately one quarter of a pound of rodent-related-rear-end. This renders a minimum 16:1 ratio which we can safely curtail to a 10:1 measure in order to account for irritable bowel syndrome and other such human ailments.

I hope this answers your question.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-05 23:37|| 2007-07-05 23:37|| Front Page Top

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