aris2chat
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- Feb 17, 2012
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Seriously, you want the Palis to own Israel and have them eating out your hand?
Also solve the fishing issue? FISH FARMING. Its the kind of innovated solution the Israelis might come up with.
But in this case, the secret weapon would be salmon, and a battery of fish smokers.
Hell, Ive just shifted the balance of power in the Holy Land.
Gaza has fish farms. Better quality fish but they cost more for the consumer. Israel extended the fishing limits but their first concern is security. Gaza has fish, cattle, sheep, goats and chickens. They grow most of their own vegetable. Four for bread is one of the few things that the UN supplied that could not be produced in gaza. Sweets, sugar, for pasteries is another. They have some honey but sweet pasteries are very popular. Baked goods, chocolate, candy, beverages, etc. need sugar. Sugar is grown or processed in much of the middle east and north africa, just not gaza. Some sugar cane but not enough for the needs of the palestinians. It is mostly used for juicing.
Not always the shortage of supplies but like the fuel, gaza has to pay the PA for fuel which is then transported to gaza. Hamas does not want to pay the taxes to the PA. Arab states have periodically payed for emergency supplies but it is more the unwillingness to pay than the availability that is the problem. When there is a gut of fuel, hamas will still ration fuel to a few hours a day. Israel supplies 1/3 of the electricity for gaza. Egypt supplies 1/3. It is the 1/3 in central gaza that hamas is controlling. It is not that the whole of gaza is without power, fuel, etc. Hamas makes a big publicity spectral of shortages even when there is no need. it gives the world the image of gaza being strangled by the blockade and being crushed by Israel.
Hamas can transport wild zoo animals, jewelry and expensive luxury cars through the tunnels but deprive their own people to make them seem more pitiable. It is a magical illusion on a world stage. It keeps a level of anger/dissatisfaction simmering within the gazans that is hamas created and fed. It was hamas violence that made the blockade necessary in the first place.