This past Saturday night the Gaza Strip had a grand opening for its new shopping mall called "Strip Mall." As the world continues its chastising of Israel, Gazans, including the over 10,500 that received Israeli medical treatment in 2009, can enjoy the new goodies of the "Strip Mall."
The following day, this Sunday morning, EU's Senior Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton called for Israel to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip. On her last visit to the region this past March 18th she was in such a hurry to get to Gaza that she didn't care to see where that same day at nearby Netiv HaAsara, a Gaza qassam rocket murdered Manee Singmueangphon, a thai worker. On this visit when she was so overwhelmed with seeing all the terrible sites of the well promoted humanitarian crisis in Gaza, was she able to stop in to check the opening day sales at the "Strip Mall?"
This past Saturday as the Gaza "Strip Mall" opened, Sky News reported on the "still dire" situation in Gaza. The article reads, "The blockade has meant that only basics like flour, rice and sugar have been allowed into Gaza from Israel." Isn't it funny how one does not see any of these items in the joyous pictures of the Gaza "Strip Mall" grand opening?
UNRWA President John Ging said on the day of the Gaza "Strip Mall" grand opening that the people of Gaza, "Can't afford to buy cans of Coca Cola from Israel." But they can afford new clothes, luxury hair products, and children's toys at the new Gaza "Strip Mall?"
Let's get a little perspective. The UN gave nearly $200 million in aid to Gaza in just the six months following Operation Cast Lead. It only gave $10 million in aid to Haiti following the devastating earthquake.
To what humanitarian crisis are these international "aid" ships sailing? Does the Libyan warlord dictator Qaddafi, who sent a ship of goods this past week, own a store in the Gaza Strip Mall?"
As an everyday person and member of the general public aren't you tired of being fed these lies about Gaza? If you're not, take a day off and go shopping at the new Gaza "Strip Mall."
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She told me, "It was all desert here, just a few mobile trailers were here. When I first came here there was nothing at all but sand and a few cheap house trailers, one medical clinic with one doctor, but no shopping at all.
"Eight years ago the quassams began coming and all I could do was think about the next one. Two years ago while I was in my bathroom one exploded in front of my house and I thought I was dieing. The explosion broke the glass windows but the municipality repaired it quickly.
"I have not met any Arabs but there are a lot of them here. They are lucky the municipality lets them live and work here. There is an Arab neighborhood close by, but I do not know where it is and I never talk to any of them because I am afraid of them.
"The only way to stop the rockets are to annihilate all the Arabs in Gaza."
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1309&Itemid=221
*Sderot became a settlement/colony after the Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed from the land and most became refugees in Gaza.
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
This isn't a anecdotal story from one extreme individual. This is the elected Palestinian leaderships belief.
Also:
, Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the Gaza Strip throughout recorded history, until the 1948 War of Independence, when they were forced to flee the invading Arab armies. Ethnic Cleansing and Massacres like that in Hebron 1929 and Gush Etzion1947.
Arabs, ethnically cleansed East Jerusalems, Jewish population when under Jordan's rule.. Jewish places of worship in East Jerusalem were bombed or turned into mosques and toilets, even the dead were not allowed to rest in peace as their tombstones were used to pave roads. Jewish homes were seized by Arabs and East Jerusalem became wholly Arab.
Gaza government ministers, members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, leaders of Islamic and national governing bodies, as well as club members and athletes were among those at the opening ceremony, where Secretary-General of the Islamic Society Nasim Yaseen thanked the donors who helped realize the project.
Yaseen praised the As-Sadaka club for a number of wins in international and regional football, volleyball and table tennis matches.
As-Sadaka athletes performed a number of swimming exercises in the new pool to mark its opening.
Published Tuesday 18/05/2010
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=285242
Gaza is illegally blockaded. Occupied and subjugated for over 4 decades. It has a hostile neighbor who presents a civilized face to the world but has a modern mechanized army fighting with stones and rocks as the only weapons at their disposal. It is 1.5 million people squeezed into the "strip" with their rights denied.
Haiti, a poor country, is faced with a natural disaster only in the past six months. No blockade, no hostile, criminal, barbaric neighbor much less a neighbor armed to the teeth with the most modern of weapons the world has ever seen. What's more, anybody from outside or inside is free to move in or out, if one choses to.
Yes, please, let's have a little perspective.
Try a human perspective in your own backyard.
The Gazans got what they wanted, Israel left them to live in peace. But they elected a terrorist organization that swore to destroy Israel and launched thousands of rockets. When Hamas was ready to fight, they declared the cease fire over and escalated the number of rocket attacks on innocent civilians. Finally, after four years of rocket attacks, Israel went in to stop them.
The Haitians were sitting around minding their own business not hurting anyone when an earthquake destroyed their entire country.
Who deserves the aid more? A truly innocent population, or a population who picked a fight and got what it deserved?
A population that was hit with a natural disaster or a powerful, heavily armed neighbor that exercises a blockade.
A blockade that lists potato chips, sweets, fresh meat, among others as contraband.
An owner is an owner no matter how powerful the burglar.
Being an owner is not a crime, burglary is.
I must ask: do you have an antisemitic, anti-Israel Chomskybot that spews out this nonsense?
Have you ever studied International Law? I mean actually studied it and how it's applied around the world. Of course this is a rhetorical question, because if you had studied you'd already know that many countries have blockades and these are considered quite legal. States have a right to do such things to protect their interests.
Of course, most of the blockades are harshly enforced by stone-killer dictatorships - most (but not all) of them of the Jihadi persuasion.
Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, and every Islamic dictatorship on the planet would blast a "peace" flotilla or land-based convoy to hell. The Saudis would use their expensive American-made-and-maintained super war technology - including phosphorous bombs (not flares) like they did against the Yeminites not so long ago.
None of this matters to people who have a kind of moral and intellectual rabies that makes them foam at the mouth, snarl, and viciously attack Israel.
By the way. The historical fact is that the "Two State Solution" was accomplished in 1922 when the British partitioned the Mandate - literally stealing 80% of the land that the International powers had ceded to Jews.
Hamas is a dictatorship whose ideology demands the elimination of Jews from Israel. Only self-hating Jews are allowed to go to Aza.
Gazans (including Hamas followers) are not dogs. They're human beings who've been conditioned by massive propaganda and irrational hatred that's indistinguishable from Nazi propaganda of the 1930s. Hamas, like many Jihadi groups, uses the Nazi salute. Dave Emory at www.spitfirelist.com has been documenting the Nazi-Islam connection for many years. His series on this subject is worth listening to. Mein Jihad, Islamofascism, and Yer Momma is a Mossad Agent are search terms that will take you to the key presentations dealing with this subject.
We are being deceived and lied to, there is obviously no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I've also seen TV reports of fully stocked food markets.
"As the ICRC has stressed repeatedly, the dire situation in Gaza cannot be resolved by providing humanitarian aid. The closure imposed on the Gaza Strip is about to enter its fourth year, choking off any real possibility of economic development. Gazans continue to suffer from unemployment, poverty and warfare, while the quality of Gaza's health care system has reached an all-time low."
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/palestine-update-140610
Hamas wins again through lies and deception.