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2009-01-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza's tunnel economy collapses in bombing raids

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Posted by gorb 2009-01-02 03:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "she sobbed: 'my children had to eat tomatoes...with sporks'"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-02 05:00|| 2009-01-02 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Burdeni, 45, the mother of 11, relies on U.N. aid to feed her children

Looks like certain humanitarian goods were left off the manifest.

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-02 07:56|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-02 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Let them eat fried Qassam with a side dish of boiled suicide belt.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-02 07:57|| 2009-01-02 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Really - dig that canal to the sea, Israel.

Posted by 3dc 2009-01-02 10:02|| 2009-01-02 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 "Tunnel owner Abu Sufian said he and his colleagues lost millions of dollars in merchandise that they had paid for, but that cannot be delivered now from the Egyptian side."

He just got caught in the tunnel bubble.

Posted by Penguin 2009-01-02 10:12|| 2009-01-02 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 "Tunnel owner Abu Sufian"

How exactly do you own a tunnel? Unless you own the land above the tunnel, but I'm betting Abu Stupid doesn't.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-02 11:19|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-02 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 "she sobbed: 'my children had to eat tomatoes...with sporks'"

Oh, the humanity! I'm just glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when reading that.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-02 11:28|| 2009-01-02 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Baby milk, is that like veal parmisan?

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-02 11:33|| 2009-01-02 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 "Tunnel owner Abu Sufian said he and his colleagues lost millions of dollars in merchandise that they had paid for, but that cannot be delivered now from the Egyptian side."

Obviously he had MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to spend. Tell me about that crushing poverty again, please. This "rich American" can't afford a girlfriend, much less a wife plus eight to eleven kids! :spit:

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-01-02 11:47|| 2009-01-02 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 Baby milk, is that like veal parmisan?

It's expensive stuff! Ya ever tried to milk a baby?
Damn hard it is

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-02 11:49|| 2009-01-02 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 OK - it's settled.

Frank wins the thread!

(BTW, you owe me a new monitor, Frank.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-02 12:23|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-02 12:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Burdeni, 45, the mother of 11, relies on U.N. aid to feed her children

Islamist imams urge Palestinian women to have as many children as possible. Then they demand that the world subsidize those children. The aim is to swamp Israel.

Posted by lotp 2009-01-02 13:00|| 2009-01-02 13:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Not just Islamist imams. Secular Fatah leaders and schoolteachers urge the same, for the same reason.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-02 13:41|| 2009-01-02 13:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Tunnels! Reminds this Tucsonan of nearby Nogales, Sonora. Except Sinaloa cartel makes no pretense of smuggling "baby milk"...

Posted by borgboy 2009-01-02 13:46|| 2009-01-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#15 At least they aren't trying to smuggle Baby Oil.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-01-02 17:07|| 2009-01-02 17:07|| Front Page Top

#16 Gaza supposedly had 3,900 factories that are closed down. Either this number is bogus, the factories were making molotov cocktails, rockets and rocks or the residents of Gaza had previously prosperous lives that they stupidly decided to flush because Hamas' message was so outstandingly persuasive.

I am leaning towards 3,900 factories being a liberal interpretation of the definition of factory.

Posted by Super Hose 2009-01-02 17:37|| 2009-01-02 17:37|| Front Page Top

#17 "Gaza supposedly had 3,900 factories that are closed down. Either this number is bogus, the factories were making molotov cocktails, rockets and rocks or the residents of Gaza had previously prosperous lives"

I'll take Door #2, SH.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-02 18:17|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-02 18:17|| Front Page Top

#18 "underground passages were used to haul in consumer goods, from motor bikes to goats"

Tunnel Entrance

Posted by Poison Reverse 2009-01-02 18:58|| 2009-01-02 18:58|| Front Page Top

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