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2007-03-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza sewage sweeps through village, three dead (!!!!!)
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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-27 06:37|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Sewage "erupts"? Only in Gaza! Everyplace else, it flows downhill, suggesting a breach in the pond wall - or dike - or levee.

Levee!?!?!! The Republicans blew up another levee?

Yeah, that'll work.
Posted by Bobby 2007-03-27 07:14||   2007-03-27 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 It was not immediately clear what caused the sewage to erupt from the pools.

I'd be betting on gas. Is Paleo food hot or just a lot of beer?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-27 07:17||   2007-03-27 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 It erupted, huh? A shit volcano?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-03-27 07:21||   2007-03-27 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm guessing they noticed because everything got wet.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-03-27 07:36|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-03-27 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember reading somewhere that Gaza was regarded as a filthy hellhole even in Roman times. Can some of the classical scholars among the Rantbourgeoisie shed some light on this?

I do know that Gaza was the target for the last authenticated attack by the famed Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The IDF's 3 B-17s---smuggled from the US by the great movie pilot Paul Tallmantz during the '48 war and later converted for maritime patrol---were used to bomb land targets in Gaza during the '56 war.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-27 07:58||   2007-03-27 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Sure enough, the US gets the blame.

The Water Authority's Kawash said Gaza's poor infrastructure was to blame for the accident.

Several major sewage treatment projects funded by foreign donors, including one near Umm Naser, were frozen after Hamas won elections last year. The U.S. and EU consider Hamas a terrorist group.

"We had a project to treat sewage in north Gaza, it was worked on for two years," Kawash said. "We built a pressure pipe line and pumping station," he added. "But it was stopped after ... troubles began."

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum blamed the "sanctions against Palestinians, including Gaza and the West Bank" for the condition of Gaza's infrastructure.

The Israeli army offered humanitarian assistance to help clean up the spill. There was no word on whether the offer had been accepted.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-27 08:05||   2007-03-27 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 "The Israeli army offered humanitarian assistance to help clean up the spill. There was no word on whether the offer had been accepted"

Why would the Israelis bother? Let them stew seethe in their own "juice."
Posted by Mac 2007-03-27 08:09||   2007-03-27 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 The Israeli's would fix it in a heartbeat. If you quit blowing them up.
Posted by plainslow 2007-03-27 08:59||   2007-03-27 08:59|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-27 09:16||   2007-03-27 09:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Just a guess, but, this is probably not the right time to ask someone to pass the caramel coated popcorn.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2007-03-27 10:20||   2007-03-27 10:20|| Front Page Top

#11 No, and that's not butter topping, either.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-03-27 10:26||   2007-03-27 10:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Saw pictures on FoxNews.com. Some of the paleo's brought guns to the site of the problem.

Couldn't be more appropriate.
Posted by jds 2007-03-27 10:38||   2007-03-27 10:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Sea,

Caramel is one thing, but butter, that's cruel. I haven't even had lunch yet.

BTW, for anyone that's interested, I have a suggestion. (Paleo reg. reqd.)
Posted by Poison Reverse 2007-03-27 10:50||   2007-03-27 10:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Chocolate City...
Posted by Thoth 2007-03-27 11:29||   2007-03-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Palestinian Interior Minister Hani al-Qawasmi, who rushed to the village to survey the damage, came under attack from angry gunmen who fired shots over his head...

Yeah, that's their solution to everything. Shoot at it.
Posted by tu3031 2007-03-27 12:26||   2007-03-27 12:26|| Front Page Top

#16 When your only tool is a gun, does every problem become a target?
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2007-03-27 12:46||   2007-03-27 12:46|| Front Page Top

#17 Given this village is about 300 yards from the Israeli border, the residents are probably more stewed about the poop-filled tunnels and shite covered Kassams that are (temporarily) out of commission than their shacks. Funding for the project was already secured. The hold-up was the violence and, well, crappy-attitude of the locals towards the project.

Drowned in their own sh*t. How appropriate. It's going to take hours to stop laughing.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble 2007-03-27 13:01||   2007-03-27 13:01|| Front Page Top

#18 A shit volcano?

Another article headlined it as a "Sewage Tsunami". At least their food shortage is over. Now they can fish for "brown trout" in the gutters. As in: "Eat shit and die!"

The Palestinians blaming America for this is like Iran claiming that we're responsible for all of their plane crashes, even the Soviet aircraft disasters. Perish the thought that if they just stopped trying to kill everything that moves for more than five minutes, maybe this world might be a little more accommodating.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-27 13:21||   2007-03-27 13:21|| Front Page Top

#19 And This Is

Shineol-la...
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2007-03-27 13:47||   2007-03-27 13:47|| Front Page Top

#20 Ricky and Julian finally did it and Mr. Lahey called it. The sh@# storm did come.
Posted by johnniebartlett 2007-03-27 13:54||   2007-03-27 13:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Wonder if this 'Unity gov't ' shit is ever gonna work out?????
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-03-27 14:27||   2007-03-27 14:27|| Front Page Top

#22 "Yeah they are suffering from poverty; a poverty of irony!"
Posted by Mark E. 2007-03-27 14:54||   2007-03-27 14:54|| Front Page Top

#23 This couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of people. Congratulations, Paleos! We look forward to the continuing failure of your basic infrastructure for our base amusement.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-03-27 17:10||   2007-03-27 17:10|| Front Page Top

#24 See God does have a sense of humor.
Posted by *wink* 2007-03-27 17:21||   2007-03-27 17:21|| Front Page Top

#25 "Yeah they are suffering from poverty; a poverty of irony!"

More like a poverty of basic intelligence and work ethic. I helped my neighbors and my family put in septic service to our homes when I was a teenager. It's NOT THAT HARD. It does require work, but so does just about everything else in life. Only the Arabs want everything given to them, and only top quality at that. Then they want someone else to also keep it maintained, and all at someone else's expense. We really ought to quarantine the entire lot, fence them off from the real world, and let them live their 7th-Century dream life.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-03-27 17:53|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-03-27 17:53|| Front Page Top

#26 Gaza sewage sweeps through village, three dead (!!!!!)

RBees, does this qualify the Palestinian Dead as
Shit Shahids
Posted by RD 2007-03-27 18:08||   2007-03-27 18:08|| Front Page Top

#27 Perhaps, Shitheeds?
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-27 18:19||   2007-03-27 18:19|| Front Page Top

#28 LOL Zen!
Posted by RD 2007-03-27 18:47||   2007-03-27 18:47|| Front Page Top

#29 I bet these guys could make a bundle.
shitcreek
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-03-27 19:11||   2007-03-27 19:11|| Front Page Top

#30 O'REILLY was al over this one this AM. Anyhoo, HOW IS THIS DUBYA's-USA's FAULT REQUIRING ANTI-US OWG + ANTI-US GLOBAL SOCIALISM???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-27 23:36||   2007-03-27 23:36|| Front Page Top

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