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Israel-Palestine
Israel proposes leaving Gaza settlement as hospital
2004-08-30
Israel is suggesting leaving a Gaza settlement intact after its planned pullout next year for Palestinian residents of Gaza to use as a hospital, as well as selling an industrial zone at a crossing point to international bodies, Israeli officials said. Israel and the World Bank concluded a round of discussions about the planned pullout on Sunday, the officials said. Israel said it planned to destroy the houses in all the settlements except one. The bulldozed homes would be replaced by high-rise apartment buildings for Palestinians now living in refugee camps, while the buildings in the remaining settlement, which was not named, would be used as a hospital.
This would require the Paleos to do something constructive, so it ain't gonna happen.
According to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan, Israel is to evacuate all 21 settlements and the Israeli military from Gaza by in 2005. Sharon refuses to coordinate the pullout with the Palestinians and is hoping that international bodies like the World Bank would help in the transition. The World Bank representatives did not express their opinions about the Israeli ideas. In the past, world financial institutions have been hesitant to commit to buying Israeli assets in Gaza as part of the pullout plan.
They don't want to pay more than the scrap value, since that's what the Paleos are best at generating.
Also, over the years Palestinians have frequently turned down Israeli plans to re-house refugees in permanent quarters, maintaining the camps for more than five decades to emphasize their temporary status as the residents, and now their descendants, wait to return to their original homes in Israel.
All their grandfathers owned a big mansion in Haifa, and had a farm in the valley with olives and persimmon trees. Just ask them, they'll tell you.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Visions of the Monty Python intro... Lol!
Posted by: .com   2004-08-30 8:00:19 PM  

#8  Ima thinking the MOAB should be reshaped in the form of a giant shoe
Posted by: Frank G   2004-08-30 7:56:31 PM  

#7  Wait! *slaps forehead* What about a museum to showcase all of those Islamic scientific advances? Haven't we recently be regaled with stories about how everything from the light bulb to space travel is due to Mohammed's amazing prescience and Islamic scientists and engineers, slaving away, to bring light, wisdom, and progress to Humankind? Sheesh - it's a (I)slam dunk!
Posted by: .com   2004-08-30 7:50:22 PM  

#6  Better a Mortuary
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-08-30 7:45:25 PM  

#5  It would also make a good site for the pali space research program.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-30 7:39:16 PM  

#4  Israel is suggesting leaving a Gaza settlement intact after its planned pullout next year for Palestinian residents of Gaza to use as a hospital,..

Rather nice of the Iraelis to think about giving the Paleos a new facility with which to coordinate their "operations". And I don't mean the surgical kind.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-08-30 11:58:21 AM  

#3  I'll take number 2 and a snow balls chance in hell for 2 Alex
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-08-30 6:09:07 AM  

#2  Funnily enough, as Paleolithic as the Paleos are in many respects, there are many skilled and competent Paleo builders and artisans.

This Gaza question is interesting. In the event of Israel leaving houses standing after the withdrawal, there are two scenarios:

ONE:
·The Paleos draw up lists of those most in need of housing.
·They allocate housing to these needy souls.
·Terror groups are not allowed to apply for this housing
·The international community, thrilled by the generous action of the Israeli government, pours millions into a fund to compensate Jews who have lost their houses. The funds are speedily allocated.
·Arafat clamps down on terror and jails terror leaders. As a gesture of goodwill, he replenishes the compensation fund by digging into his embezzled millions.

TWO:
The opposite of the above occurs. The daydream was nice while it lasted
Posted by: Bryan   2004-08-30 5:45:15 AM  

#1  A note about Saudi Arabs - for comparison and contrast. Everyone knows about the Khobar Towers. Well this was a 4-bldg complex of high-rise apartments, built by the Saudi Gov't, supposedly for the Bedu. Really nice bldgs and units... right on the Gulf with only a wide street separating the complex from the greenbelt built along the breakwater. Picnic heaven. There were other identical Towers, in Al Dammam and elsewhere. Funny thing was, no Bedu will sleep with another man's feet above his head - it's a "dirty" thing, a serious insult - you know how whacking something or someone with shoes shows great contempt and insult, right? So the Bedu wouldn't use the apartments - they didn't care for the height of the top floor - and couldn't have anyone above them - so they just wouldn't use them.

Did the Saudi Gov't know this would happen? Sure they did - they all romanticize the Bedu and pretend they'd like to be like them again - as all Saudis once were - but keep to their cities and cars and restaurants and bright white thobes. That Bedu shit is a hard nasty life. But that's the story - and as with all Saudi Public Works stories, there are always insane contradictions, nepotism, and what we would call fraud involved... just normal Saudi bidness, heh.

Back to the Bedu... They pitched their tents on the brand new sod grass lawns - picture the sprinkler systems and such req'd. Big $$$ Waste. They did love the swimming pools, however... for about a week. Then they reverted to diggin ad hoc toilets out in the sand - as they had always done. Then soon they left on their normal nomadic route. Get the picture?

This is why the Khobar Towers were empty and "available" (some cleanup, ahem, was req'd) for the USAF when Gulf Shield / Gulf Storm came along.

Think the Paleos will do much better with nice modern housing? Why?

As for the industrial park, any metal shops in there? I hear the Paleos lost a bunch of their bomb factories playground equipment manufacturing capability recently.
Posted by: .com   2004-08-30 3:53:58 AM  

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