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One Israeli official promised a holocaust in Gaza; it is impossible to keep pace with the death toll.
Gaza is an immense concentration camp -- 1.5 million people squeezed into 140 square miles hemmed in on all sides by 25-foot-high walls separated by a vast expanse of bulldozed earth. The 2005 "pull-out" left Gaza still controlled by Israel from air and sea, its entries and exits prisonlike mazes electronically controlled and under constant surveillance. Bombing it, assaulting it with tanks and Uzis, is like shooting animals in a pen. The claptrap about "pinpoint" accuracy and "avoiding civilians" is a lie so flagrant, so transparent, that any child -- certainly any Gaza child -- could grasp it....
http://ifamericaknew.org/cur_sit/camp.html
From a great activist/artist....
well, I've been to Gaza... apparently you haven't been.
it's certainly not a "concentration camp".
anti-semites need to stop appropriating tragedies that were foisted upon jews and pretending they're being foisted upon Palestinian terrorists.
and feel free to demand that Jordan take in it's transjordanian bedouins since they are who populate Gaza and the West Bank.
You are such an idiot. The Palestinians have no relationship with the Bedouins. The Palestinians are the native people of Palestine.
Gaza is a concentration camp. A large one.
āThe misery in that unhappy strip of land is difficult to describe and more difficult to endure,ā he said. āA young woman stood and told us: āIsrael put us in a concentration camp.
Those who call themselves our leaders are taking away the air we breath.āā Brahimi added: āSince 1967, Palestinians have endured grave acts of oppression, violence and collective punishment. Here, another dismal landmark, the tenth anniversary of the imposition of the blockade, which amounts to the collective punishment of 1.7 million people of Gaza, will be marked this year.ā
Former UN envoy parallels between Gaza strip and a concentration camp
you're a terrorist supporting piece gf trash.
try talking about things you know, moron.
I have forgotten more than you will ever learn about Gaza, you terrorist supporting piece of crap.
"Amira Hass: āLet me be blunt: Gaza is a Huge Concentration Campā
When I think of all my friends in Gaza ⦠not only my friendsā¦that havenāt been out of the Gaza Strip for the past 20 years ⦠they are deprived of so many basic things, because Israel deprives them of peace, (the) basic right of freedom of movement.
Iām not talking about food. Iām not talking about even the water situation in Gaza, which is appalling and disastrous. Iām talking about the very basic need of people to travel, to move, to see other places, to have both the ability to plan or the ability to be spontaneous. The Palestinians are deprived of all this.
In practice, Gaza has become a huge, let me be blunt, concentration camp for right now 1, 800,000 people. This is not a novelty. This is not something new. This did not start, unlike what many people think, with the rise of Hamas, Hamas being elected in 2006, or Hamas taking over the security agencies and apparatus in Gaza in 2007 after the short civil war. We can almost trace it to the moment when it started, and this is the 15th of January 1991 ā long before Oslo, long before Madrid, and of course long before the suicide attacks inside Israeli cities and against Israeli civilians.
Amira Hass: 'Let me be blunt: Gaza is a Huge Concentration Camp'
You have forgotten more than you ever knew.
Gazaās Millionaires and Billionaires ā How Hamasās Leaders Got Rich Quick
Gazaās Millionaires and Billionaires ā How Hamasās Leaders Got Rich Quick

Khaled Meshaal in a meeting with spanish journalists. Photo: Traangal.
One of the mysteries of the current war in Gaza can be seen in the photos coming out of the tiny enclave: On the one hand, there is the desolation and squalor of Gaza neighborhoods where hundreds of thousands of Gazans live, and on the other, pictures of the homes owned by Hamasās top officials, complete with gym equipment and fancy furniture, or else images of the five-star hotel suites where they stay.
Itās quite a conundrum; just how did these new tycoons, who grew up in refugee camps and who wave the banner of helping their people, become so filthily rich in such a short space of time?
According to Dr. Moshe Elad, a Middle East expert from the Western Galilee Academic College, most of the founders of Hamas were refugees or direct descendants of refugees. āSome of them were born of intermarriages between Egyptians and Gazans, with no money at all. In its putative stage, the organization ā not yet called Hamas ā fed off the Israeli military establishment, which funded Islamic associations in Gaza in an effort to counterbalance Fatah. On the day they decided to cut ties with Israel and seek funding elsewhere, their phenomenal wealth started growingā.
The money, Elad told the Israeli financial newspaper Globes, came from several directions. āDonations by the families of people who dies, charity money, called āzakalaā in Arabic and the donations of various countries. It started with Syria, Saudi Arabia, then Iran, one of the main sponsors, and ended with Qatar which has today taken Iranās place.ā
There were also campaigns to raise money in the US. āMoussa Abu Marzouk,ā Elad says, āstarted raising funds among the rich Muslims in America and also established several bank funds.ā Over time he built a conglomerate of 10 financial operations āthat give loans and conduct investments. Heās an amazing financier.ā
In 1995 the US arrested Abu Marzouk for activities supporting terrorism and after two years in jail, he was deported without trial. But he kept the money. āThis man was worth several millions already in 1997, when he was expelled,ā Elad says. āSomehow he managed to elude the IRS and a trial for his offenses. Some say he made contacts in the administration. It is not proven, but it is hard to find another reason for how he managed to get away with such heavy accusations against him.ā
āIn 200, during the 9/11 probe, it was found that he had ties with al Qaeda including money transfers made to the 21 al Qaeda operatives accused of carrying out the attack.ā
Today, Abu Marzouk is one of the major billionaires in Hamas. āArab estimates peg his fortune at 2-3 billion dollars,ā Elad says. Another senior-official-turned-terror-tycoon is Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamasās political wing. āGlobal estimates say Mashaal is worth $2.6 billion,ā but Arab commentators, with other sources, say he is worth between 2 and 5 billion, āinvested in Egyptian banks and Gulf countries, some in real estate projects.ā
Next on the list is Ismail Haniyeh, who until the recent signing of a unity deal between Hamas and Fatah was the Prime Minister of Gaza. āHis fortune is estimated at 4 million dollars, and most of his assets in the Strip are registered in the name of his son in law Nabil, and a dozen children of his and other less known Hamas officials,ā Elad says.
According to Elad, Ayman Taha, a mid-tier official, āwas born in desolate poverty at the El Buraj refugee camp, but recently built a house worth at least a million bucks. He is in charge of coordinating Hamas operations inside and outside the Gaza Strip and is not even a senior member, but heās already a member of the millionaire club.ā
Most of their money comes from misused donations to the Gaza Strip, since every dollar passes through Hamasās pipeline. Elad assesses that smuggling of goods through tunnels generates hundreds of millions a year and those who control the siphon became wealthy along the way. There are several hundred millionaires in Gaza and there would be hundreds more if smuggling would continue unabated. The man pulling the strings in Egypt is Khirat el Shatr, who is No. 2 in the Muslim Brotherhood. His connection to Hamas is allegedly based on a shared religious outlook, ābut in effect itās a thriving business, with a revenue of millions.ā
Pan-Arab London based paper, Asharq al Awsat, which is considered a reliable media outlet, recently ran a story saying there are 600 millionaires in Gaza. Elad explains how the corrupt officials charge: Every car load smuggled through the tunnels was taxed by a fixed sum of $2000 and additionally 25% of the value of goods. Between June 2007 and 2010 the tunnel smuggling business generated $800 million. Hamas also taxed all merchants in Gaza, from car retailers to sellers of fruit and vegetables. Hamas also took over lands and then resold them at a profit.
Hamas also apparently published fictitious names of employees to sponsors abroad and then scooped up their salaries and distributed them between a few senior members.