Posted on 06/18/2015 5:30:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Just six month since Portugal’s parliament voted to recognize the Palestinian Authority as an independent “State of Palestine,” the Portuguese government is set to launch a new drive aimed at promoting “Palestine” as an independent tourism destination—despite it not being a legal state or having any defined borders. […]
[Portuguese Tourism Minister Adolfo Mesquita] Nunes said he would be personally “recommending Portuguese people to visit Palestine,” including the thousands of Portuguese Christian pilgrims who visit Israel—including Christian sites in Bethlehem and elsewhere. …
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
I can see the ads now: Visit Palestine. Take a guided tour of the terror tunnels, see the vast array of rocket launchers. Watch the exciting beheading of dissenters.
That’s just...just...I ain’t got the words.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Best of luck. Could be combined with a beach vacation in Gaza. Tourism is tough when the tourists are potential targets. Arafat learned that with the Jericho casino. What, the Israelis won't come just cause we shoot at them?
“Watch the exciting death of dissenters and political rivals as they are thrown off 5-story buildings.
See the palis caged like animals by the UNRWA!”
Arafat had high hopes for that one, visions of skimming oodles of casino cash danced before his eyes. So he had to stick with stealing 100s of millions, if not billions, from foreign aid and the PLO-owned companies that he and his cronies controlled.
so did Israelis who like to gamble.
with their lives, you mean?
No, they opted out of gambling their lives. Lots of Israelis like to gamble, but there are no casinos in Israel. Sharon wanted to build a complex in northern Gaza when he withdrew, but the Palestinians would have nothing to do with it. Turned down proposals to leave the industrial park operating as well. Would be a natural. Gaza is a lot closer than Monaco or Vegas for gamblers from the Arabian peninsula too. Who needs economic development.
It would seem that the Israelis didn’t flock to the Oasis, however.
Lasted 2/3 yrs tops?
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