Posted on 05/16/2004 1:13:43 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
Use a fraction of the money to pay off the some of the settlers.
They would have to weigh it against the rental cost for a line of bulldozers the width of Gaza and the ever-rising gasoline cost.
Even if they removed the settlers from Gaza (which I support), it wouldn't solve the problem being talked about -- the use of the Egyptian border to smuggle weapons into Gaza. If Israel left the border unchecked, Hamas could and would smuggle in heavy arms such as missles that it would use to attack Israel proper. The settlers are irrelevant to the question of controlling the so-called "Philadelphia Corridor" (why it has that name I have no idea).
Under the circumstances, moats and walls are a good idea. 7th century tactics to defeat 7th century barbarians. If that doesn't work, one can always hope for locusts or a plague.
Pinging you and the pro-Israel list.
It will work even better if they build the canal and then relocate the squatters on the Egyptian side. That way the Egyptians and Hamas have no one to smuggle to.
The Israelis could call it the "Manichevitz Line".
Where is the water coming from? The sea? That'll be expensive; pumping up all that water. Should be some great rafting if they build in some rapids. :)
save yer kesef, you already got a fence around gaza, evac those 3000 bums from the settlements and no more gaza in the news.
Until Katyusha rockets start flying from Gaza into Tel-Aviv. Israel would hang on to the Philadelphia route even under Sharon's disengagement plan -- to prevent Hamas from using the Egyptian border to smuggle heavy weapons into Gaza. The Philadelphia route ain't about the settlements.
Need more be said?
Yeah, I'd assume the sea.
Awesome. The Arabs could not dig anything 60 feet deep in the future without using bigtime equipment, thus making covert efforts all but impossible.
But I agree the money should be given instead to the ejected settlers, who are just about the only real Jews having babies and countering the mass-breeding of Arab terrorists. Perhaps Israel could just bury 10,000 hams with landmines attached, so that anyone being killed by them would be denied a place in Allah's virgin-rape "paradise".
How about just putting 1,000 scarecrows resembling Rachel Corrie. That ought to deter them.
Well, flood it with fresh water, and you could call it an aquaduct. I guess sea water would make it a seaquaduct.
Perhaps the Almighty could divide Gaza from Egypt and see fit to have the waters drown any marauding palesites.
That would mean that these 90 houses would have each held at least 10-11 people? Come on now, the Arabs lie so much that it cannot even be within the realms of common sense.
that's what I thought they should do - build a giant moat that would flood any smuggling tunnel. Fill it with crocodiles for good measure.
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