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Arcticle: "Gaza - Some secrets few will say aloud"
Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:12 am
Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:12 am
its an informative read on what information the western media doesnt talk much about.
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(3) Conditions on the Ground. Gaza is perhaps one of the worst places to live imaginable. Period. Its population density is one of the world's highest and its living conditions are shocking. For eight years Israel has had Gaza under a crippling blockade. And it is severe. The problem is that building materials that could reconstruct Gaza can also be used to build tunnels. And so steel, gravel, pipe, concrete, etc. have not come in. But there is more. Israel also limited the importing of food and has been accused of calculating calories in order to keep Gaza's economy on the brink of collapse. To make life miserable, inexplicably at one point shaving cream and soda were blocked. And chocolate. Chocolate? Most of the tunnels that Israel decries are not "terrorist tunnels" used to attack Israel. They are economic. They sneak in everything from cars to chocolate. I even saw a photo of donkeys coming through the tunnels from Egypt.
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Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:17 am to BobBoucher
Why dont they just walk into Egypt?
Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:36 am to BobBoucher
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For eight years Israel has had Gaza under a crippling blockade.
They meant to say Israel and Egypt, right?
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The problem is that building materials that could reconstruct Gaza can also be used to build tunnels.
And yet tunnels are still being built and discovered by the dozens if not hundreds.
Look people are suffering there, at the hands of Israel, at the hands of Egypt, and at the hands of their own elected government.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:42 am to BobBoucher
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But there is more. Israel also limited the importing of food and has been accused of calculating calories in order to keep Gaza's economy on the brink of collapse. To make life miserable, inexplicably at one point shaving cream and soda were blocked. And chocolate. Chocolate?
Folks who follow events in the Mideast already knew that the blockade was more about punishing Gazans for voting the wrong way in a free and fair election than fighting "terrorism". Here's how Pat Buchanan explained it when the blockade was first imposed:
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For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider Gaza and the West Bank. There, a brutal Israeli/U.S.-led cutoff in aid has been imposed on the Palestinians for voting the wrong way in a free election.
Immediately after Hamas’s victory, Israel halted the $55 million a month the Palestinian Authority received as its share of tax and customs revenue. Israel demanded Europe and the U.S. also end all aid to the PA until Hamas renounces terror, recognizes Israel, and disarms.
President Bush, though he was conducting a worldwide crusade for democracy and had urged that the Palestinian elections be held and Hamas participate, obediently complied. For months now, U.S. and European aid to the PA, half its budget, has been halted.
The early returns are in. “Surgeons at Gaza’s biggest hospital,” says the Financial Times, “have suspended non-essential surgery for lack of sutures, laboratory kits and anesthetics.” Environmental protection agency workers have no money for petrol to monitor sewage and industrial waste entering the water supply. Some 150,000 civil servants, 60,000 of them armed security personnel, have gone unpaid for months.
Supermarkets have to extend credit to customers who have no money for food. The Washington Post relates an incident that gives a flavor of what is happening.
“In Gaza’s gold market Monday, Nahed al-Zayim stared at the wedding ring her husband, a Palestinian police officer, gave her six years ago. She had placed it on a glass counter offering it for sale, joining several other wives of public employees who had not been paid in two months.
“Her head covered by a black veil, Zayim said she needed the proceeds from her ring to buy diapers and milk supplements for her three children, including Hazem, 4, who tugged at her tunic in the afternoon bustle. ‘This is the last one, we have no more,’ Zayim, 28, said of her ring.”
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Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:59 am to BobBoucher
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The problem is that building materials that could reconstruct Gaza can also be used to build tunnels. And so steel, gravel, pipe, concrete, etc. have not come in.
And yet they somehow built miles upon miles of tunnels.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 12:57 pm to BobBoucher
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Gaza is perhaps one of the worst places to live imaginable
Makes you wonder where all those billions in aid ended up, doesn't it?
Posted on 8/27/14 at 1:56 pm to BobBoucher
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its an informative read on what information the western media doesnt talk much about.
Are you fricking serious? This is all the western media talks about.
I expected this to actually be new important information about Gaza. But it's the same old bullshite propaganda.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 4:08 pm to BobBoucher
It's good to be the king!
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