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'The worst it's been': children continue to swim as raw sewage floods Gaza beach
theguardian.com ^ | July 31, 2017 | Peter Beaumont

Posted on 08/02/2017 8:33:53 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

It is high summer on Gaza City’s beach. A horse and cart patrols the shore selling brightly coloured swimming rings. A small boat is giving joy rides out to sea. Families sit on chairs while a few children play in the water.

Normally, in the midst of the school holidays, the beach would be crowded. Particularly this year, as an electricity crisis makes many homes unbearable during the heat. But these days many parents are keeping their children away.

The first hint is the smell: the sulphurous odour of raw sewage.

Where children are swimming the water is a murky brown, with a fine suspension of faecal matter visible to the naked eye. Small fish at the water’s edge, scooped out by the giggling children, are dead.

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1 posted on 08/02/2017 8:33:53 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How can they tell the difference?


2 posted on 08/02/2017 8:34:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Israel’s fault. Or the Jews. One or the other. Or both.


3 posted on 08/02/2017 8:35:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Maybe they should ask Allah to fix it.


4 posted on 08/02/2017 8:36:32 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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It is stunning, the degree at which I am capable of not caring. The scum of the earth swimming in the scum of the earth


5 posted on 08/02/2017 8:39:22 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Darn, that’s a shame.
Does it make them more lethargic at jihadi summer camp?


6 posted on 08/02/2017 8:39:46 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Stupid islams trying to be normal while their islam stupidity stops them every time.

Quit teaching your offspring to be hateful and ignorant islams.


7 posted on 08/02/2017 8:40:40 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Berlin_Freeper

>> The reason is simple.

So is the solution.


8 posted on 08/02/2017 8:40:57 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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9 posted on 08/02/2017 8:43:24 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

>“But this is the only place where you can come to escape the tedium of Gaza. And you get used to the smell. Last time we came was much worse than it is today,” he adds. “Then the water was completely green.”

Oh you poor ignorant islams, just can’t figure it out can you.

Quit pinching off islam evil, ignorance, rape, murder, mayhem and you just might join the 19th century.


10 posted on 08/02/2017 8:44:47 PM PDT by soycd
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Does it make them more lethargic at jihadi summer camp?

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah
I am writing from camp al-Fatwah.
Holy war is very entertaining.
They say we'll kill some infidels when bombs stop raining

11 posted on 08/02/2017 8:45:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I used to think the Palestinians greatest fault was they couldn’t organize garbage service. They’ve outdone themselves.


12 posted on 08/02/2017 8:57:35 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Oh the poooooor Palestinians! Ruined by their own mob-bosses but electing them again and again. Surely the Europeans will feel for their plight and send them billions of dollars. more.


13 posted on 08/02/2017 9:20:19 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: dfwgator

Perfect!


14 posted on 08/02/2017 9:20:53 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It’s the Jews fault for leaving...


15 posted on 08/02/2017 9:22:46 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: dsrtsage

Gaza year 1600BC...cesspool

Gaza year 1917...cesspool, Britsh capture from Ottoman Turks.

Gaza year 1966...cesspool, Egyptian rule.

Gaza year 1967-1993...cesspool but prosperous, Israeli rule.

Gaza year 1993-2006...cesspool, PLO rule, launches missiles at Israel, PLO blames Hamas.

Gaza year 2007-2017...cesspool, Hamas rule, launches missiles and wars at Israel, blames Al Nusra front.

In general, Gaza has always been a hole but the HAMAS and PLO could have raised the quality of life for it’s residents but both anal-antic terror groups decided it was better to invest Western aid and monies into weapons and offensive attack capabilities instead of building a productive state.

Their choice, their lives, their cesspool. So what does it mean when the Left and idiots parade around with signs saying “Free Gaza”? Free Gaza from...whom?? From HAMAS???

My only regret is that their garbage flows in the direction of Israel. Israel should create a current that keeps the sewage permanently at the (once gorgeous) Gaza beaches.


16 posted on 08/02/2017 9:28:53 PM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Back in the 1960’s, we used to walk from Subic Bay Naval base into Olongapo, crossing a bridge over what we called “Shit Creek.” It definitely deserved the name since it was the means of removal for the waste from all the homes along the river.

We used to flip coins to the kids swimming in the river, they’d dive down, find the coin, then come up with a big smile holding the coin high.

I went back a few years ago, it still stinks to high heaven but Olongapo is no longer the same place, if you know what I mean.


17 posted on 08/02/2017 9:38:47 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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Yeah (snork!) I know what you mean. Was the Christian Science Reading Room still there at the corner of Rizal and Magsaysay?


18 posted on 08/02/2017 9:45:14 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Palestinians are the world’s poverty pimps

Their racket is convincing the world they are poor and oppressed and are going to do harm to themselves and others unless they are given money, and lots of it. And yet they still remain poor and swim in sh**


19 posted on 08/02/2017 9:51:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Maybe if they had not spent the millions of dollars of aid money they received from libtard suckers on concrete for tunnels and for guns and explosives, they would have had a decent sewage system.

“Let them stew in their own juice” seems quite apropos now.


20 posted on 08/02/2017 9:53:20 PM PDT by EinNYC
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