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2006-04-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians scramble to live without money
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Posted by ryuge 2006-04-28 08:22|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 ''I don't know what to do. Even if I want to start working as a thief, there is no one to rob,'' he said.

PRICELESS!
Posted by RWV 2006-04-28 10:35||   2006-04-28 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "Cause", allow me to introduce "Effect".
Posted by GORT 2006-04-28 10:59||   2006-04-28 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait until the water is turned off.
Posted by 3dc 2006-04-28 11:44||   2006-04-28 11:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course if they were smart... they could copy the early Zionist settlers and start a kibbutz!

They didn't have money but fed their people.
Posted by 3dc 2006-04-28 11:46||   2006-04-28 11:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course it is a form of communism but its food.
Posted by 3dc 2006-04-28 11:47||   2006-04-28 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 salty oilive schadenfreude.

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-04-28 11:50||   2006-04-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Hamas officials say the Palestinians would rather face starvation than give up their principles.

Good.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-28 11:56||   2006-04-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 All those smashed up glasshouses would have been useful now.
Posted by Grunter 2006-04-28 13:45||   2006-04-28 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 "It has raised about $70 million, enough to cover about half of the salary payments, but has been unable to transfer the money to the Palestinian areas. It claims local banks are afraid to give them an appropriate cut first handle the money, fearing U.S. financial sanctions."

Fixed it!
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-04-28 14:35|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-04-28 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Gee... concequences of actions? Who would have thought?
Posted by DarthVader 2006-04-28 14:39||   2006-04-28 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 You would think a 48 year old schoolteacher would know Cause-->>Effect by now. Guess not -- too busy teaching kids the proper way to wear a bombbelt.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-04-28 15:17||   2006-04-28 15:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Hamas officials say the Palestinians would rather face starvation than give up their principles. ''All of the Palestinians are standing together,'' said government spokesman Ghazi Hamad. ''The government has repeatedly affirmed that we are not going to compromise.''

Such a pig-headed people.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-28 15:49||   2006-04-28 15:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Modern seige through economics. Let the hunger and disease rear its head. I see four horsemen in your immediate future.
Posted by Slaise Glaitch7603 2006-04-28 16:02||   2006-04-28 16:02|| Front Page Top

#14 the goal is not hunger and disease, which would ultimately hurt us. The goal is to make it so Pal security forces and Hamas operatives can live as well off handouts as by taking orders from Hamas. At which point Hamas either falls, or cries uncle.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-04-28 16:06||   2006-04-28 16:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Shortsighted Lh, maybe? Pals have always lived off of handouts. That they continue with Hamas in power, only makes Hamas stronger. Hamas rules, everybody eats.

Finding money outside the handouts - work for it, create a country that is civilized, is what they need to do. Finding this impossible under Hamas is what would bring them down. Starve til Hamas falls at the will of the Pals.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-28 16:26||   2006-04-28 16:26|| Front Page Top

#16 LH - for all your knowledge of Israel (stipulated), I find you very shortsighted on the Paleo side. They need to focus inward to find out why they suck so bad. The Israelis aren't always to blame, are they, death cult?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-28 16:44||   2006-04-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Sympathy meter pegged HARD at zero. They must have mistaken me for someone who gives a damn.
Posted by mac 2006-04-28 19:18||   2006-04-28 19:18|| Front Page Top

#18 Different folks have different goals, LH. For example, me, I'd like Palestinians to admit that they're not a nation, and move the f*ck out of my neighborhood. Or just die off. Ain't picky.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-28 21:19||   2006-04-28 21:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Hamas officials say the Palestinians would rather face starvation than give up their principles.

This just in ... People who have starved to death are no longer capable of upholding principles. Not that living Palestinians have much in the way of principles in the first place, mind you. But, then again, dead Palestinians are a whole lot less trouble for the neighborhood. So, stick to your principles, ya stupid f*cks, prosperity starvation is just around the corner.
Posted by Zenster 2006-04-28 21:54||   2006-04-28 21:54|| Front Page Top

#20 And I'll bet those "Hamas officials" will be right at the front of the starvation line I'm sure...
Posted by tu3031 2006-04-28 22:03||   2006-04-28 22:03|| Front Page Top

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