Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza

[daveman]

Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza

With Hamas telling tales of deprivation and suffering in Gaza, Egyptian journalist Ashraf Abu al-Houl has added his report to others who were surprised to discover a “prosperous” Gaza in which prices are low and luxury businesses are booming. Al-Houl's story of his trip to Gaza and his realization that “in actual terms, Gaza is not under siege” was written up in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).


"A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast. Further, the site of the merchandise and luxuries filling the Gaza shops amazed me,” he reported.

Concerned that his initial impression of prosperity may have been misleading, “I toured the new resorts, most of which are quite grand, as well as the commercial markets, to verify my hypothesis. The resorts and markets have come to symbolize prosperity, and to prove that the siege is formal or political, not economic,” Al-Houl said.

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Most of the new resorts “are owned by members, or associates, of Hamas,” he reported. “In addition, the Hamas municipalities charge high fees, in Gaza terms, for the use of public beaches,” he added.

 

[daveman]

Looks like if anyone's oppressing Gazans, it's Hamas.

 

[jillian]

are you really surprised that hamas is the one making the money and not using it for their people? they are also refusing to use OUR aid money to assist people who don't support hamas.

it's the same thing Arafat did when he put the money we gave him to sit at the negotiating table into suha's french bank account.

 

[ekrem]

That journalist works for State Newspaper of Egypt, Al-Ahram.
Al-Ahram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The state of Egypt is just another cocksucker of the USA and is participant of the oppression of Gaza.

Cairo's basic attitude toward Hamas as an offshoot and a branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is very wary. The Egyptian Brethren present the greatest challenge to the Egyptian regime, hence the existence of a territory ruled by a sister movement on Egypt's border is a problem: it can serve as a model and a base of operations in Egypt itself, and it threatens Egyptian sovereignty

Behind the Egypt-Hamas Flare-up - CBS News

Simple as that.

 

[daveman]

are you really surprised that hamas is the one making the money and not using it for their people? they are also refusing to use OUR aid money to assist people who don't support hamas.

it's the same thing Arafat did when he put the money we gave him to sit at the negotiating table into suha's french bank account.

No, I'm not surprised at all. But terrorist-loving fools will continue to blame the Jews.

 

[daveman]

That journalist works for State Newspaper of Egypt, Al-Ahram.
Al-Ahram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The state of Egypt is just another cocksucker of the USA and is participant of the oppression of Gaza.

Cairo's basic attitude toward Hamas as an offshoot and a branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is very wary. The Egyptian Brethren present the greatest challenge to the Egyptian regime, hence the existence of a territory ruled by a sister movement on Egypt's border is a problem: it can serve as a model and a base of operations in Egypt itself, and it threatens Egyptian sovereignty

Behind the Egypt-Hamas Flare-up - CBS News

Simple as that.

Poor Hamas. All they want to do is kill Jews. What's so terrible about that?

 

[ekrem]

The regime in Egypt is totally disconnected from its own people.
Egypt in awkward position on Gaza following Israeli attack on aid flotilla

The OP article was written in Arabic.
State propaganda for the Egyptian masses.
"Look: It is Disneyland in Gaza. Our boycott and cocksucker behaviour does not harm the Gaza people"-

 

[ekrem]

foreignpolicy.com Journalist's experience visiting Gaza

The blockade has made Gaza a global symbol of hardship. To be sure, it has reduced much of its economy to ruins: with exports to the outside world impossible, the factories and workshops are closed, and unemployment is perhaps as high as 80 percent. Moreover, it is only 18 months since the end of Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli attack conducted to stop a rain of Gazan rockets, which reduced thousands of buildings to rubble and killed close to 1,500 civilians.
Life in Gaza | The Middle East Channel

So, here an independent Journalist.
And on the other side a state-journalist of Egypt, whose government is participant of the oppression of the Gaza people, as Egypt sees Gaza as a threat to its own people-oppressing Regime.

 

[ekrem]

(...) But terrorist-loving fools will continue to blame the Jews.

You have a very bizarre logic. That is clearly visible from your above quoted statement.
To be sure, that interpretation of world does not exist.

You can play the "Good Jews, bad others"-game in Washington's Congress which is infiltrated by the Israelian "Monica Lewinsky".

 

[Jos]

Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza

With Hamas telling tales of deprivation and suffering in Gaza, Egyptian journalist Ashraf Abu al-Houl has added his report to others who were surprised to discover a “prosperous” Gaza in which prices are low and luxury businesses are booming. Al-Houl's story of his trip to Gaza and his realization that “in actual terms, Gaza is not under siege” was written up in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).


"A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast. Further, the site of the merchandise and luxuries filling the Gaza shops amazed me,” he reported.

Concerned that his initial impression of prosperity may have been misleading, “I toured the new resorts, most of which are quite grand, as well as the commercial markets, to verify my hypothesis. The resorts and markets have come to symbolize prosperity, and to prove that the siege is formal or political, not economic,” Al-Houl said.

--

Most of the new resorts “are owned by members, or associates, of Hamas,” he reported. “In addition, the Hamas municipalities charge high fees, in Gaza terms, for the use of public beaches,” he added.

The evident prosperity is not enjoyed by all, or even most, of Gaza's residents, according to Al-Houl. The problem is the vast differences in the distribution of wealth. The luxury resorts and wide range of consumer goods are enjoyed by “only a few groups,” he said, primarily those who own smuggling tunnels to Egypt and those who work for international organizations such as the United Nations' UNRWA and who do not include or aid the rest of the population

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Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News


As for the source..Selective Memri


Brian Whitaker investigates whether the 'independent' media institute that translates the Arabic newspapers is quite what it seems

The co-founder and president of Memri, and the registered owner of its website, is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon.

Mr - or rather, Colonel - Carmon spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.

Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence.

Selective Memri | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[P F Tinmore]

foreignpolicy.com Journalist's experience visiting Gaza

The blockade has made Gaza a global symbol of hardship. To be sure, it has reduced much of its economy to ruins: with exports to the outside world impossible, the factories and workshops are closed, and unemployment is perhaps as high as 80 percent. Moreover, it is only 18 months since the end of Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli attack conducted to stop a rain of Gazan rockets, which reduced thousands of buildings to rubble and killed close to 1,500 civilians.
Life in Gaza | The Middle East Channel

So, here an independent Journalist.
And on the other side a state-journalist of Egypt, whose government is participant of the oppression of the Gaza people, as Egypt sees Gaza as a threat to its own people-oppressing Regime.

On top of that, Israel has bulldozed 1/3 of Palestinian agricultural land and shoots at farmers trying to work their land. Israel has killed thousands of chickens and other livestock. Israel has bombed food production facilities. Israel has bombed many of Palestine's factories. Israel shoots at fishermen who try to fish which was one of Gaza's major industries.

The propagandists claim that Hamas takes all the money to buy weapons leaving their people to starve.

Then a US puppet regime writes an article that is translated by a card carrying member of Israel's bullshit machine saying Gaza is prosperous.

It is easy to detect propaganda. It makes no sense.

 

[Shogun]

oh hey look.. another "jews evicting palies" story today. go figure.

Israeli settlers evict Palestinian family from their home of 70 years | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[Jos]

oh hey look.. another "jews evicting palies" story today. go figure.

Israeli settlers evict Palestinian family from their home of 70 years | World news | guardian.co.uk

Ownership is one thing to be decided by the court at a future date, but if people have been paying the rent, no one has the right to evict them

 

[daveman]

(...) But terrorist-loving fools will continue to blame the Jews.

You have a very bizarre logic. That is clearly visible from your above quoted statement.
To be sure, that interpretation of world does not exist.

You can play the "Good Jews, bad others"-game in Washington's Congress which is infiltrated by the Israelian "Monica Lewinsky".

Speakng of terrorist-loving fools...

 

[daveman]

Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza

With Hamas telling tales of deprivation and suffering in Gaza, Egyptian journalist Ashraf Abu al-Houl has added his report to others who were surprised to discover a “prosperous” Gaza in which prices are low and luxury businesses are booming. Al-Houl's story of his trip to Gaza and his realization that “in actual terms, Gaza is not under siege” was written up in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).


"A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast. Further, the site of the merchandise and luxuries filling the Gaza shops amazed me,” he reported.

Concerned that his initial impression of prosperity may have been misleading, “I toured the new resorts, most of which are quite grand, as well as the commercial markets, to verify my hypothesis. The resorts and markets have come to symbolize prosperity, and to prove that the siege is formal or political, not economic,” Al-Houl said.

--

Most of the new resorts “are owned by members, or associates, of Hamas,” he reported. “In addition, the Hamas municipalities charge high fees, in Gaza terms, for the use of public beaches,” he added.

The evident prosperity is not enjoyed by all, or even most, of Gaza's residents, according to Al-Houl. The problem is the vast differences in the distribution of wealth. The luxury resorts and wide range of consumer goods are enjoyed by “only a few groups,” he said, primarily those who own smuggling tunnels to Egypt and those who work for international organizations such as the United Nations' UNRWA and who do not include or aid the rest of the population

.
Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News


As for the source..Selective Memri


Brian Whitaker investigates whether the 'independent' media institute that translates the Arabic newspapers is quite what it seems

The co-founder and president of Memri, and the registered owner of its website, is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon.

Mr - or rather, Colonel - Carmon spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.

Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence.

Selective Memri | World news | guardian.co.uk

Like I said...Hamas is oppressing the Gazans.

 

[daveman]

foreignpolicy.com Journalist's experience visiting Gaza

The blockade has made Gaza a global symbol of hardship. To be sure, it has reduced much of its economy to ruins: with exports to the outside world impossible, the factories and workshops are closed, and unemployment is perhaps as high as 80 percent. Moreover, it is only 18 months since the end of Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli attack conducted to stop a rain of Gazan rockets, which reduced thousands of buildings to rubble and killed close to 1,500 civilians.
Life in Gaza | The Middle East Channel

So, here an independent Journalist.
And on the other side a state-journalist of Egypt, whose government is participant of the oppression of the Gaza people, as Egypt sees Gaza as a threat to its own people-oppressing Regime.

On top of that, Israel has bulldozed 1/3 of Palestinian agricultural land and shoots at farmers trying to work their land. Israel has killed thousands of chickens and other livestock. Israel has bombed food production facilities. Israel has bombed many of Palestine's factories. Israel shoots at fishermen who try to fish which was one of Gaza's major industries.

The propagandists claim that Hamas takes all the money to buy weapons leaving their people to starve.

Then a US puppet regime writes an article that is translated by a card carrying member of Israel's bullshit machine saying Gaza is prosperous.

It is easy to detect propaganda. It makes no sense.

Speaking of terrorist-living fools...

 

[hipeter924]

are you really surprised that hamas is the one making the money and not using it for their people? they are also refusing to use OUR aid money to assist people who don't support hamas.

it's the same thing Arafat did when he put the money we gave him to sit at the negotiating table into suha's french bank account.

No, I'm not surprised at all. But terrorist-loving fools will continue to blame the Jews.

Even if the Jews were totally ethnic cleansed from Israel and the Palestinians got their Islamic state of Palestine they would still hate Jews. By their own admission the Free Palestine movement doesn't just want to ethnic cleanse the Jews but eliminate them from public life all across the world, deny them the right to vote all across the world and finally destroy their religion all across the world.

 

[Jos]

Even if the Jews were totally ethnic cleansed from Israel and the Palestinians got their Islamic state of Palestine they would still hate Jews. By their own admission the Free Palestine movement doesn't just want to ethnic cleanse the Jews but eliminate them from public life all across the world, deny them the right to vote all across the world and finally destroy their religion all across the world.

Who says that,got a link?
Is it true that one is only considered a jew if ones mother was a jew?

 

[daveman]

are you really surprised that hamas is the one making the money and not using it for their people? they are also refusing to use OUR aid money to assist people who don't support hamas.

it's the same thing Arafat did when he put the money we gave him to sit at the negotiating table into suha's french bank account.

No, I'm not surprised at all. But terrorist-loving fools will continue to blame the Jews.

Even if the Jews were totally ethnic cleansed from Israel and the Palestinians got their Islamic state of Palestine they would still hate Jews. By their own admission the Free Palestine movement doesn't just want to ethnic cleanse the Jews but eliminate them from public life all across the world, deny them the right to vote all across the world and finally destroy their religion all across the world.

It's easier to blame someone else than accept responsibility for yourself.

 

[ekrem]

Speakng of terrorist-loving fools...

If I am a terrorist lover, you are the sub-contractor of Congress' Israelian Monica Lewinsky. In computer language they say: Loadbalancing /-share.