Posted on 08/11/2005 4:32:29 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
UM EL-NASSER, GAZA STRIP -- On the sandy hillside at the edge of this village, Palestinian children tumble and slide in the billowing dust beneath a camouflage-draped Israeli army post that guards three nearby Jewish settlements. "Every time our children play along that road, we worry," said Ali Abu Klaik, 50, who raised 14 children here and saw a 15th die. Once the Israelis "are all gone, God willing, this place will be better."
From this battered town at the northern end of the Gaza Strip to a wind-blown refugee camp 24 miles away on the Egyptian border, the 1.3 million Palestinians who live in Gaza have started imagining a different life after years in the shadow of Jewish settlements and the Israeli military installations built to guard them.
Starting Monday, the Israeli military is to begin evacuating 8,500 Jewish settlers from Gaza and dismantle those installations. After the evacuation, Palestinians will be able to move freely up and down the narrow strip and along dirt streets of villages such as this one, hemmed in for years by fences and fear.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Gee, where have we heard that before?
Alouette, gentile Alouette, Aloutte, je te pingerais.
Once the Israelis "are all gone, God willing, this place will be better."
Translation: "Once the Israelis have all been slaughtered..."
Who are they kidding? Gaza in three months will make Afghanistan under the Taliban look like Club Med.
After the evacuation, Palestinians will be able to move freely up and down the narrow strip and along dirt streets of villages such as this one, hemmed in for years by fences and fear.
And in 10 years they will still be dirt streets, hemmed in by fear.
And they won't have the Israelis to blame for their squalid conditions.
I'd be more interested in an article titled "Israeli families imagine a life with fewer mouth-foaming Palistinian Terrorists and more surviving family members"
But they'll get blamed regardless.
They will be begging the Israelis to come back when they have absolutely no employment, what little economic basis they had will be gone and the furtile landscape will become desert again. And the squeeze play on the Israelis will continue...
Sure they will. "We're afraid because those Zionists are too close. We can't be confident of Palestinian security unless there's a buffer zone between us and them--say, 800 miles in every direction."
Sad to say, you are probably right. Even if they managed to expel or exterminate every Jew in Israel, the Palestinians would find a way to blame the Jews for their problems.
And they will complain that when those perfidious Zionists pulled out they did not leave the jobs behind.
Palestinians would have fared better under the Jews than they did under their own corrupt leaders. The Jews are much more compassionate toward them.
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If the terrorists want "fewer barriers," they should all move to central Iraq or someplace like that.
Yet another propaganda publication. And so full of nonsense it's hard to believe how many people actually believe it.
Gee, imagine a life with no fences to keep your children from killing themselves. Imagine a life without the toil to have to drag a ladder to the fence when you feel the urge to just explode. Imagine a life that instead of your children playing under the tents of the IDF, they can play in the streets with HAMAS and Islamic Jihad as they torture a colaborator, just imagine.
I imagine this reporter has to imagine all of his article, because he has obviously not had to live under the humanitarian disaster that Oslo and the UN have made for the Arabs of Israel.
It will be palesimian Anarchic Tribalism at work. I have confidence in their sheer vileness..
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