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2009-01-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
First Gaza damage estimate: $1.4 billion
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Posted by gorb 2009-01-15 05:18|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Gazans voted Hamas into power to thumb their noses at the world and make a mockery of the free election system. They were laughing at the world.

They aint laughing any more are they?
And Hamas isn't going to make nice with Fatah, so I guess they better get used to living the way they are.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-15 07:02||   2009-01-15 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Regarding the $1.4 billion quoted figure... most of that will be wages. It seems excessively high to me. It costs the rebuilding at half a million dollars per hamas target.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-01-15 08:00||   2009-01-15 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 1.4Billion? They must have destroyed EVERY structure in Gazaland to reach that figure.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-01-15 08:59||   2009-01-15 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, considering Hamas has been destroying its own infrastructure to fire rockets at Israel, there wasn't much left to destroy.
Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-15 10:23||   2009-01-15 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Why is the UN going to send people to fix that hellhole when there is a 50% unemployment rate? Shouldn't they put some of those dingleberries to work fixing their hovels?

I dunno....maybe they might take better care of them if they realize how hard it is to build something? (No wonder they act like spoiled brats....they've always had everything handed to them.)

Besides, if Achmed is busy on the construction crew, he won't have much time for rocket shooting practice.
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-15 10:59||   2009-01-15 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 To get those numbers they must have a swarm of insurance adjusters in Gaza. Or is that subcontracted to Hamas?
Posted by tipover 2009-01-15 11:20||   2009-01-15 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 To get those numbers they must have a swarm of insurance adjusters in Gaza. Or is that subcontracted to Hamas?
Baksheesh man, or in local terms..The Chicago Way.
You know a hundred million here and a hundred there and pretty soon you're talking serious money.
Posted by tipper 2009-01-15 11:53||   2009-01-15 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 1.4 Billion. A couple of million for building and the rest for "Consulting Fees" for Hanas.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2009-01-15 12:08||   2009-01-15 12:08|| Front Page Top

#9 $1.79 if you discount the blown up rocket inventory.
Posted by ed 2009-01-15 12:13||   2009-01-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#10 i didn't think everything in Gaza including land and ppl were worth 1.4 billion
Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-01-15 13:36||   2009-01-15 13:36|| Front Page Top

#11 "Europe's top four fundraisers for the Palestinians [...] are meeting in Paris on Thursday to discuss Gaza's reconstruction and the possibility of holding a new donors' conference."

The war against Hamas nazislamist terrorists isn't finished yet, but the European pro-Islamic dhimmicrats are already planning to give again billions to the criminals living in Gaza.

Alan Dershowitz is right : terrorism succeeds only because it earns money.

Donors and fundraisers for the Arabs are supporting Hamas and Fatah terrorism.
Posted by Leroidavid">Leroidavid  2009-01-15 13:53||   2009-01-15 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't care if it's a trillion dollars, not a dime should be spent in Gaza. Hamass caused the problem, let them fix it. If they can't, or won't, maybe Achmed the charcoal merchant will learn that just wishing for something won't get it, and it takes elbow grease and sweat equity. That's a lesson the entire muddled east needs to learn the hard way. Screw them all. Take Saudi Arabia's oil, and let the rest of the entire area rot.

I took a look at Mecca and Medina on Google the other day - now I know why Hamass are such moles. It runs in the Arab blood. There must be 50 tunnels in Mecca alone. Wonder what a Tomahawk in each one would do...
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2009-01-15 14:09|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2009-01-15 14:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Gaza Home Depot store


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-15 18:36||   2009-01-15 18:36|| Front Page Top

#14 well, in about a week they can ask the new crown prince for part of that bailout money, only seems congruent w/everything else the idiot dems would propose to waste tax$$$ on.
Posted by Flease and Tenille aka Broadhead6 2009-01-15 22:02||   2009-01-15 22:02|| Front Page Top

#15 we have some FEMA trailers they can have. Don't worry about the gaseous emissions. You have too many future martyrs children anyway
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-01-15 22:43||   2009-01-15 22:43|| Front Page Top

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