Loinboy:
And to think, the Journal used to be such a highly respected paper, that is until that Austrailian mugwump bought them and compromised their integrity. There are so many problems with Gunnar's little hit piece, I don't know where to start. I guess the beginning will do.
It's pretty obvious to the reader, ole' Gunnar is deliberately trying to infer Hamas came into power in Gaza as a result of a military conflict with Fatah. I don't know who he's talking to, because the rest of the civilized world knows Hamas came to power in a democratic election, because they got more votes than Fatah. Gazan's were finally fed up with the corruption in the Fatah organization that basically made them Israeli puppets.
How could he be desperately inferring anything of the sort? Do you have comprehension problems or is it simply that you are clearly in such a desperate hurry to slur the author that you seem to have overlooked that the election was in early 2006?
So now Gazan children have been re-classified as "weapons"? I guess that won't bring as much heat, when Israeli snipers shoot them in the back while they're farming?
Again, Gunner is not referring to re-classifying children as weapons, he is talking about the violence and bloodshed that is 'commonly seen in lands where at least 30% of the male population is aged between 15-29.' It isn't a difficult concept to grasp, loinboy and is a well documented issue IN LANDS WHERE THE POPULATION OF MALES AGED BETWEEN 15 - 29 IS OBSERVED.
This is the big lie you people have been pushing, since Hamas refused to Israel's *****. Hamas has stated many times publically, they're willing to accept a two-state solution, if Israel goes back to the '67 borders and ends the occupation.
Maybe they would be taken more seriously if they took all that murderous crap about obliterating Israel out of their Charter, but they haven't and only an idiot would trust someone who has as their manifesto a pledge to kill you.
That's the situation Israel has caused as a result of operation Cast Lead and their illegal and immoral economic blockade of Gaza. Cast Lead destroyed their infrastructure and Israel will not allow any building materials (like cement), to go into Gaza to rebuild their damaged buildings and utility plants.
They have been allowing building material back into Gaza for a while now even though it has been appropriated in order to use it to line weapon smuggling tunnels.
Palestinian's cannot focus on their economy, because Israel won't let them.
How can you have a fishing industry, when the IDF constantly shoots at their fisherman?
How can you have a farming industry, when the IDF shoots at the farmers when they're harvesting their crops?
How can you export your products, when Israel controls 80% of what goes into (and out of) the area?
How can you have a business, when 90% of Gaza's electricity comes from the Israeli utility grid and they are constantly shutting off the power?
How can they concentrate on their economy, when IOF rountinely comes in and bulldozes down their farms, their olive trees and entire neighborhoods?
Who, if they genuinely wanted the above. would continue to have a Charter stating they intend to obliterate their neighbours and who, if they wanted the above, would continue to bombard their neigbour with rockets and missiles? First class eejists, thats who.
Loinboy: The first part (in bold) is the reason for the situation in Gaza. Israel wants to make life so horrible for Palestinian's, that they'll leave an area they've been living in for the last 1000 years.
If that were the case, how come Egypt, other neighbouring Arab countries, the mega rich Saudis don't thwart Israel's plans? It would be simple enough. How come neighbouring arab countries keep pals in refugee camps? The reason they don't is that it is THEY who want to keep the pals as pawns in order to keep this situation festering.
The second part, is just a bullshit lie, because Israel will not allow the majority of independent NGO's to go in their and see for themselves what's going on. You can get a good idea of what is going on by seeing what the "boots on the ground" have to say about what they saw (and did) in Gaza. Here's few of their nuggets...
Here you contradict yourself. You need more NGO's to go in to know what is going on, then you say YOU CAN GET A GOOD IDEA of whats going on from the boots on the ground. Lol. Listen, loinboy, there is no need for yet more NGO's, they have the massive antisemitic UNRWA all to themselves and huge amounts of aid per capita, and there is certainly no shortage of news and propaganda coming out of Gaza. What planet are you living on?
How can you possibly concentrate on an economy when everything an economy needs to grow, is destroyed?
The way Israel treats the Palestinian's is so inhuman, degrading and horrific, that you have to go back all the way to the 1930's and the way the nazis treated the jews, to find anything similar. The Israeli's treat the Palestinian's, like the nazis treated the jews. And in doing so, they have made all the lives of the victims of the Holocaust, to have now died in vain.
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