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Pain of Hamas boycott worse than feared for Gaza's people
Financial Times.com ^
| May 9 2006
| Harvey Morris
Posted on 05/09/2006 9:26:10 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: takenoprisoner
I just said look at it, or revisit it. But, honestly, there is no shortage of money or credit in the world. Nothing is stopping the Palestinians from issuing bonds and raising money for countless productive enterprises. (Theoretical speaking).
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posted on
05/09/2006 12:05:32 PM PDT
by
Leisler
(Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.)
To: Leisler
This will turn out to be a classic study in what happens when a country entirely dependent on foreign aid finds it cut off. The neighbor who could help the most is the one they insist must not exist. The ones who have been egging on the fighters still provide explosives and ammunition but precious little economic prosperity.
It is, in fact, a state hardly worthy of the name; more accurately, it is the semblance of a state set up deliberately not to nurture its inhabitants but to act as a proxy agent for warfare, its state mechanisms provided for by international charity rather than internal economic surplus. The Israelis did not do this to the Palestinians, nor did the international community at large. Their supposed supporters did.
To: Leisler
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posted on
05/09/2006 1:03:17 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Rachel Corrie's not dead - she's taking a CAT nap.)
To: BJungNan
All they have to do is renounce terrorism, accept Israel's right to exist, actually stop terrorism, embrace peace and they will have prosperity and a good life.
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posted on
05/09/2006 1:10:30 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Rachel Corrie's not dead - she's taking a CAT nap.)
To: Leisler
The poor, many living in refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, have had to adjust to living on humanitarian handouts since an Israeli ban on day labourers entering Israel deprived them of their readiest source of income. They didn't think suicide bombing would affect their access to Israeli jobs???
To: Leisler
IT'S ISRAEL'S FAULT!!!!.....(oh, and Bush's too)....../sarc
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posted on
05/09/2006 1:19:57 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Locusts aren't the only thing that swarm across borders wreaking havoc on the invaded nation.)
To: Leisler
Staff at the Palestinian Authority's environmental protection agency are grounded for lack of petrol money and are no longer able to monitor levels of industrial waste and sewage entering the water supply. Well they only manufracture bombs, Kutusa rockets and hate.
Those they can do without.
As far as the sewage...Well.. lets look at the bright side, if they keep the money cut off that also will cease to be a problem.
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posted on
05/09/2006 3:09:52 PM PDT
by
mississippi red-neck
(You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
To: conserv13
Or they could give Israeli citizens a tax rebate. :)
To: Sabramerican
Amazing - some Palestinians would rather blow things up than eat!
To: Zack Nguyen
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posted on
05/09/2006 5:00:12 PM PDT
by
Sabramerican
(I thought I was voting for George. I voted for Bandar.)
To: Leisler
It's always someone else's fault.
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posted on
05/09/2006 8:07:41 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: conserv13
some of the money Israel owes them for taxes that Israel collects on their behalf. Yeah well, the Israelis should be allowed to deduct the cost of the utilities that they have been providing to Gaza for free.
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05/09/2006 8:14:27 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 60-65)
To: Alouette
I thought the PA paid the Israeli electic company?
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