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PayPal should level playing field for Palestinian entrepreneurs
San Jose Mercury ^ | 08/30/2016 | David Palumbo-Liu

Posted on 08/31/2016 6:08:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Living here in Silicon Valley, one of the world's wealthiest areas and home to thousands of affluent tech entrepreneurs, it is hard to imagine life in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Life there is fraught with power outages, water restrictions, lack of medical supplies, an education system that has been weakened by bombings and forced closures, and high unemployment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ecommerce; internet; palestinian; paypal
We are writing to urge you to extend PayPal's services to Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza


How can they buy bomb making materials on eBay if they can't use PayPal?

1 posted on 08/31/2016 6:08:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Not PayPal’s job.

Sometimes things are just harder to do. My former employer did a significant amount of real business with Nigeria. It was hard to get things set up online, etc. for obvious reasons. We never thought of blaming the people doing their due diligence.


2 posted on 08/31/2016 6:13:06 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."--Karl Marx)
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>Life there is fraught with power outages, water restrictions, lack of medical supplies, an education system that has been weakened by bombings and forced closures, and high unemployment

All self-inflicted. Only the women work and the males all rope goats or bugger little boys.


3 posted on 08/31/2016 6:14:13 AM PDT by soycd
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How about just tell all the terror loving Palis to go straight to hell?


4 posted on 08/31/2016 6:16:14 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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Are those Palestinian entrepreneurs still running those hydroponic farms the Israelis left them in Gaza?
5 posted on 08/31/2016 6:16:56 AM PDT by zek157
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To: artichokegrower
Are those Palestinian entrepreneurs still running those hydroponic farms the Israelis left them in Gaza?
6 posted on 08/31/2016 6:17:02 AM PDT by zek157
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To: artichokegrower
Occupied Palestinian Territory

I prefer to call it by its proper name: Territory Occupied By Parasites.

7 posted on 08/31/2016 6:22:16 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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Posting the following because this article mentions Palestine and I want to get this down:

In the 1911 encyclopedia posted on line here: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/

When you look up Palestine they only give the definition of a city in the US. Here’s the direct link to the Palestine entry in the 1911 online encyclopedia http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PAI_PAS/PALESTINE.html

As someone noted in the comments section to the entry, they have completely removed the entry for the mideast territory of Palestine because it doesn’t fit the modern day narrative of the poor Palestinians being picked on by the Jews.

If anyone has encyclopedias, especially old ones, if you have any way of keeping them, please do. They are disappearing from libraries and in time, all we may have left is electronic format, which as described above, is easily manipulated.


8 posted on 08/31/2016 6:33:11 AM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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If anyone can appreciate levelling a playing field it’s a bunch of homocidal Bedouin vagrants.


9 posted on 08/31/2016 6:40:52 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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life in the Occupied Palestinian Territory . . . is fraught with power outages, water restrictions, lack of medical supplies, an education system that has been weakened by bombings and forced closures, and high unemployment

It's so sad how things are tough for people who would rather build tunnels to attack women and children rather than building productive businesses to improve their own lives. That's why liberals hope they can find a way to make terrorism easier for the Palestinians to fund.

10 posted on 08/31/2016 7:28:56 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Auntie Mame

Ping


11 posted on 08/31/2016 7:33:48 AM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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Why don’t the Pali’s use their Terrorist Express Cards?
“Don’t leave the tent without it”


12 posted on 08/31/2016 7:57:15 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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The West Jordanians get free electricity. Toooo bad about the power outages.


13 posted on 08/31/2016 8:14:04 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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