Posted on 04/09/2006 1:59:27 PM PDT by Alouette
For the information of all the anxious: There is no hunger in the territories. No baby has died of malnutrition; no child is walking around with a swollen belly. There is no lack of flour, and from Rafah to Jenin rice is available. Let the tongue-cluckers relax: The talk about a "humanitarian disaster" is exaggerated. The international relief and aid organizations are trying in despair to cry "wolf," to alert the Israelis and the world and enlist them in the cause to save the Palestinian people, knowing that only exaggerated talk might move anyone. They might be right, but their calls are coming too soon, and also much too late.
The use of the term "humanitarian disaster" is actually proof of the dehumanization of the Palestinians. There's no flour? "Humanitarian disaster." There is flour? Then there's no disaster. There's an assumption that all the Palestinians need is a daily serving of food so they won't be considered disaster victims. It's enough that they have water and food in their troughs to conclude that their situation is fine. But human beings, including the Palestinians, have a few other basic needs as well.
The real humanitarian disaster in the territories began a long time ago, and it is not hunger. Those who regard the neighboring people as human beings know this very well. It is true that the dimensions of the disaster are worsening, but that's been taking place over years, and the food index is not the only measure. The cessation of the flow of funding since the rise of Hamas might threaten to depress the economic situation even further, but the thought that if they only have enough food, their needs will be satisfied and our conscience can be clear, is outrageous.
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The real humanitarian disaster was perpetrated upon Arabs by Arabs. It suited neighboring Arab countries to shove Palestinians into camps and keep them there. This worked wonders for brainwashing, elevating Arafat and his cronies, and finally the intafada. Arabs cut off their own nose to spite their face. Now they expect Israel and the US to provide a new one.
I can't follow the leftist suicidal mind-set, so I guess that means I'm still somewhat sane.
"Dry Heave" alert, indeed!
When the Israeli's learn that Arabs are not going to allow them any peace?
Until the Israeli's administer a crushing military defeat to the Arabs, followed by imposition of a Western form of government, Israel will have no peace.
I, for one, am tired of listening to some Liberal Israeli - no, more accurately, Commie Israeli or socialism impaired Israeli trying "understand" Muslims.
There is nothing to understand, Dhimmi! You are a Jew and they want your land and your life. Understand?
Story of Palestine:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/media/pdf/BigLies.pdf
GAG! Now ain't that enough to make you want to drink a bottle of Pepto with a Tanqueray chaser!?!?!?! Some of those yahoos over there must wear T-shirts that say: "I am brain-addled" in Hebrew!
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