[Alouette]

[Alouette]

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[ChinaThreat]

The west will break and bail these animals out again. To me, this is liking reviving vampires from the dead. They are blood thirsty animals. If they want to live in a civilized manner, they need to learn to live in a civilized manner. Otherwise, they are no better than rabid wolves.

[cardinal4]

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - He's overdrawn at the bank, owes $400 to the grocery, can no longer afford baby formula for his youngest and is trying to sell his 16-year-old car for half its value to raise cash for food.

You would think by now they would realize that their past behavior is directly related to whats happening to them now. Having said that, I can spare a little time for sympathy....times up! Reap what you sow a**holes..

[Reactionary]

Maybe the Nazi welfare state the "international community" has created for itself should bear the brunt of its decisions.

No? You mean the humanitarian needs of fascists and thugs is just what everyone loves to moralize about?

[Ronin]

The West won't lift crippling economic sanctions and Hamas refuses to moderate its violent anti-Israel ideology, even though its government is broke and unable to pay 165,000 employees.

Life's a bitch.

They elected the thugs and now they are bitching that the West is doing what they clearly warned them they would do. No sympathy from me.

[rockprof]

Couldn't happen to a better group of people.

[digger48]

He's told his boss he needs to cut his work week to three days because he can no longer afford the daily $3 in gas for the 12-mile roundtrip between his home in Beit Lahiya, near Israel

Boy, that solves the problem

[Slump Tester]

I thought it said he was trying to sell his 16 year old for half price.

[Old_Mil]

...I wonder where this compassion on the part of the AP was when thousands of my fellow citizens lost their jobs because of the actions of a handful of his co-religionists.

[SkyPilot]

even though its government is broke and unable to pay 165,000 employees.

165,000 "government" employees? What do they do?

I'll answer - NOTHING.

They produce nothing, and hence the have no economy. All they know how to do is take money from other nations.

[Kakaze]

Not one cent.

[puppypusher]

Yea! but the U.S. government continues to provide funding even though they state otherwise.

Its enough to tick a person off.Taking taxpayer dollars and providing them to a terrorist group that will use the money to buy weapons and explosives to kill innocent people.

What are they doing?

[hsalaw]

Why the heck is the US paying welfare to Palestine anyway? Don't they have some sort of goods or services they could be selling - well, other than terrorism and "I hate Israel" bumper stickers.

[Rembrandt]

Well you poor bastidges. I'm crying my eyes out for you. Why don't you all go outside and ululate for 40 - 50 hours -that should help.

[sheik yerbouty]

"I'm deeply saddened.."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"'I think Hamas should soften a little bit, and they will soften a little bit,' said Samy Najar, 38, who owns a supermarket in the southern Gaza town of Rafah and has seen daily sales drop from $1,125 to $225. 'Let us give them a chance to see what they can do for us.'"

"All we are saaaaying is give Hamas a chance!" ~ With apologies to John Lennon

[solzhenitsyn]

"I think Hamas should soften a little bit, and they will soften a little bit," said Samy Najar, 38, who owns a supermarket in the southern Gaza town of Rafah and has seen daily sales drop from $1,125 to $225. "Let us give them a chance to see what they can do for us."

Yes, Samy, let's all sit back and see what Hamas can do for you. We wouldn't want to interfere and steal their thunder. Let's make it a fair test, and give them all the time in the world. Surely they can do more for you than the evil Americans did.

[Shermy]

Where's the Arab help? Saudis got plenty of money. Why not blame them?

[Cicero]

Isn't that nice. There were 165,000 government employees, all being paid nice fat salaries on our dime.

And exactly what was this "government" doing that was so very useful?

[Maceman]

The West is seen as hypocritical for pushing democracy, but refusing to accept the outcome of the parliament election that swept Hamas into power.

Seems to me that it is the Palestinians who are refusing to accept the outcome of the parliament election that swept Hamas into power.