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Gazans lost big with tunnel investments
Doron Peskin
Published: 20.02.09, 08:48
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31. # 10 Sorry, no dummies allowed
Petra ,   USA   (02.21.09)
why would Israel admit another terrorist who blames Israel and yet, wants to be employed there? Don't your muslim brothers have work for you? They have plenty of suicide bombers, I guess thats your job now, eh?
32. # 16 Obama signed an act allowing hundreds of thousands of
Petra ,   USA   (02.21.09)
pals to immigrate to the USA Great for Israel, hell for Americans. Obama the real 'friend' of fiends.. according to wizbangblog and the Federal Reigster. How many Jews voted for the muslim president? Proud now?
33. # 25 Zohan, short career, if caught.
Petra ,   USA   (02.21.09)
but, what the hell, their lives are empty now w/ no border crossings. Gaza, what a place to live and die. Who wouldn't want to work in Israel after Gaza? Perhaps all those Jews pay better and are less violent? The wall helped stop violence and pals just looking for work. Perhaps Egypt would be a new job site? Or, iran?
34. Petra 27 & 28 , who wants them ?
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.21.09)
Who wants them ? Do you think that they are welcome in some arab country ? Even if they can prove that their grand grand parents left Syria , Egypt , Sudan or even Yemen [ from wich countries most of them originated ] to work for Jews in then called Palestine they will be rejected
35. Worry Not Walid, Obama will help you...
Bruce ,   Kentucky   (02.21.09)
I'm sure there are set-asides for Gazan infrastructure development in the Pork-u-lis bill. Hmmm, but since you're halal that might present a problem. Ask John Kerry to mediate.
36. #10 no actually, your bad life is your responsibility
Zvi   (02.22.09)
You already have what could be some of the best real estate in the region and some of the most creative people in the region. You have a wellspring of supporters around the world who want to invest in you and you have as a neighbor the most technologically advanced society in the Middle East. Your deeply impoverished neighbors to your west would love to have your wealth. You were given a high-tech agribusiness. Unfortunately, you insist, again and again, on squandering and destroying every asset you have in order to get revenge on Israel for Israel's existence. Grow up. When you learn to build, when you build a pragmatic society, when you pragmatically choose life over the constant worship of death, some of us will support you again. Half of Israeli Jews are refugees from the Arab / Muslim world. They lived in tents for years, many near Sderot. But they didn't sit around for 60 years whining that Arabs had mistreated them and firing mortars at you. But that's exactly what you're doing to them; many of them live in Sderot. Grow up. Get rid of Hamas. Get a life.
37. Wanna buy a bridge?
Kenny Komodo ,   Mountain City, NV   (02.22.09)
Hey loser I have a bridge for sale. Tell ya what, I'll sell it cheap, ship it to ya in boxes and you can reassemble it wherever you want. Just send me a check for $100,000. thanks
38. what? no hamas stimulus package
potash katiftof ,   tel aviv israel   (02.22.09)
Can't the citizens of gaza ask their leaders for a stimulus package? oh right, they only have those in democracies, not terrorist dictatorship.
39. lots of capitalism in the Gaza Strip these days.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (02.22.09)
They are starving to death though. That's what the United Nations would have you believe.
40. # 39 Steve Wilson Gaza's final solution
petra ,   uSA   (02.22.09)
the Gazan's will die due to the cruelty of those they voted into power and 60 years of their arab brothers neglect and revulsion.
41. Simply filthy .....
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (02.23.09)
Invest in schools? Roads? Infrastructure? No! Tunnels! We are supposed to cry for a vegetable stand owner (!) who can cough up $56,000 to invest in tunnels?? What profoundly f'd up people they are. May they loose every grush they ever had until they agree to compromise and make peace with us. The world needs to wake up to just how filthy the Palestinians are.
42. #10 - dream on Jalal.
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (02.23.09)
43. You have got to be kidding me...
Dan Graves   (02.23.09)
So, some of these people manage to raise over 50000 dollars worth of support for some smuggling network tunnel, yet the U.N. keeps insisting they're all poor, and starving, and that we should all contribute to help them out ? I say cut all the aid to the Pali's from here on in.
44. the gaza economy
tom ,   toronto, canada   (02.23.09)
it is clear that hamas has converted the gaza economy almost entirely to the fight against israel. the destruction of the gaza greenhouses was no accident, and neither is the regular shelling of the border crossings - hamas wants to create financial dependence as a means of control. hamas has stolen relief supplies for the same reason. gazans can either support hamas or starve. like a cancer, they have made themselves an inseparable part of the local economy, feeding off the inhabitants. and just like a cancer, they are killing their hosts, and must be excised. hamas' concern with the sharia aspects of the tunnels is touching, except that they have only used sharia as it suited them. (for example, where does it say that a moslem is permitted to commit suicide and to murder women and children, in order to enter paradise?) and why did they never mention this until AFTER their bagmen absconded with the investors' money?
45. to #10: obsession
tom ,   toronto, canada   (02.23.09)
well, at least you said "to israel" and not "to palestine", which is at least honest. but why don't you build your own country, instead of letting yourselves be used as cannon fodder by the arab league? why do you sit in refugee camps throughout the arab world, dreaming of a "palestine" that never was, instead of demanding your rights to integrate and live like human beings? i was a refugee from hungary after 1956, but i don't expect the united nations to feed me, and my children, and my children's children. and i don't live in a refugee camp, 50 years later, dreaming of the day that i can murder the people of hungary, and take what is theirs. i don't call 1956 "al naqba" and fill my children's heads with nonsense about how wonderful everything was - i am happy to be out and getting on with my life. stop blaming the israeli "occupation" - the last israeli left 3 years ago. your people even destroyed the greenhouses that the israelis left behind. israel is not responsible for your situation - hamas is. stop making war on israel, and israel will stop shooting back. then maybe you can live normally, and support yourselves with dignity, instead of living on international handouts. as golda meir said: "there will be peace in the middle east when the arabs love their children more than they hate us."
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