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Netanyahu said to freeze plan to send sick Gazan children abroad after Golan attack as Hamas declares polio epidemic in Gaza
2024-07-30
[IsraelTimes] Move reportedly comes after 12 children and teens were killed in Hezbollah’s rocket attack on Majdal Shams in the North on Saturday.
Consequences.
Culture that polio!

Hamas-run health ministry declares polio epidemic in Gaza

[IsraelTimes] Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry declares a polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
epidemic across the Paleostinian enclave, blaming Israel’s military offensive.

The World Health Organization said last week there is a high risk of the poliovirus spreading across the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Paleostinian enclave, but has yet to declare an epidemic.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  From a whole other context, but... speaking of coughing and coffee and throat punches...

Cafe Conversation. The Swiftie:
"This politics stuff is sure nifty!
Like, kind of a test
Of who leads us the best?"
"Or of Kool-Aid's [shades, spliff] LD50."

Sorry, no idea how to do subscript on this thing.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452   2024-07-30 22:54  

#7  Thanks, tw. Interesting. I can see why Arabic is a great language for mustache cursing.

When they start doing the enunciation play...

It was delightfully overdone. "Look at me! I'm totally authentic and down with the murderous indigenes. Also, Genocide!". Reminded me of Obama carefully saying Tal-EEE-ban.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-07-30 22:48  

#6  Apropos of nothing in particular, on NPR the other day, all the Kool Kids(tm) were saying Xhaza with kind of a gargly sound.

When they start doing the enunciation play, hold onto your wallet. Other than doing the Yasser Arafat dialect IYKWIM.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-07-30 20:35  

#5  Here you go, SteveS, how the Gazans and other Middle Eastern types pronounce the starting sound for Gaza. It’s a voiced whachamacallit:

Posted by: trailing wife   2024-07-30 18:02  

#4  Apropos of nothing in particular, on NPR the other day, all the Kool Kids(tm) were saying Xhaza with kind of a gargly sound.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-07-30 14:56  

#3  ^From the same people that told us what Gazans are starving.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-07-30 11:30  

#2  Polio cases 'very likely' in Gaza population, WHO says
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-07-30 10:28  

#1  

It must have somehow missed, the DC Swamp's & MSM's attention.

The USA had 30 Polio "reported" cases in 2023, many of which were trace to ....
You can guess ... Biden's 14 Million Illegals & brought in Refugees.

Posted by: NN2N1   2024-07-30 05:13  

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