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2008-11-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel blocks Gaza aid, UN suspends food delivery

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "The imposition of the blockade on Gaza by Israel with the cooperation of Egypt is a clear violation of international law and constitutes collective punishment," Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Right Watch's Middle East division, told AlArabiya.net.

Wanna move to live in Shderot Joe?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-14 01:09|| 2008-11-14 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 If the situation is so impossible, perhaps those Gazans not involved in amateur rocketry and similar pursuits ought to consider joining their cousins who long since moved to somewhere more congenial.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-11-14 05:10|| 2008-11-14 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 How many UN trucks lieutenant Goldstein? Thirty trucks sir. Ok, stop them all. Send them back. Stronger message to follow.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-14 07:42|| 2008-11-14 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Worth mentioning here once again, a look at the gaza strip, when it was under israeli administration :

How the Palestinians Ruined Gaza

In the economic sphere, most of this . . . was the result of access to the . . . Israeli economy: the number of Palestinians working in Israel rose from zero in 1967 to 66,000 in 1975 and 109,000 by 1986, accounting for 35 percent of the employed population of the West Bank and 45 percent in Gaza. Close to 2,000 industrial plants, employing almost half of the work force, were established in the territories under Israeli rule.

During the 1970's, the West Bank and Gaza constituted the fourth fastest-growing economy in the worldahead of such "wonders"as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea, and substantially ahead of Israel itself. . . . GNP per capita grew somewhat more slowly, [but] expand[ed] tenfold between 1968 and 1991 from $165 to $1,715. . . . By 1999, Palestinian per-capita income was nearly double Syria's, more than four times Yemen's, and 10 percent higher than Jordan's. . . . Only the oil-rich Gulf states and Lebanon were more affluent.

Anyway, does anybody else here find very, very tiring that the paleos should feel entitled to live on welfare, mostly from the West's good will, whereas they not only are anti-israeli, but also plainly anti-westerners, claiming to be involved ina greater Jihad, including the return of al andalous, the conquest of Europe, the conquest of the white house (ok, that one is partly done already),...?

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-14 07:48|| 2008-11-14 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Rocketry is, of course...

Bizarro world, of course, just as when the soviets pushed armed revolutions all over the world in the name of "peace", and all the useless idiots would fall for it, and have demonstrations to support "peace".

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-14 07:50|| 2008-11-14 07:50|| Front Page Top

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