[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.

[Bobibutu]

"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."

Nor I - but we will bail them out - a pox on our elected officials. - Drag it out vs. ending it now.

[rbg81]

Why exactly is the West responsible for the bloated PA bureaucracy? After all, all these a$$ clowns do is plot to kill us and celebrate after each terrorst attack (remember the joy in the PA after 9/11?-- I do). If we had any cohones, we'd let 'em starve. Of course, I fully expect President Gee Whiz Resolve to cave any day now.

[SauronOfMordor]

The Gaza Strip's population is only 1 million people. Considering that a good chunk of that are children and old folk, and we have over half of the working-age population of Gaza being government employees

What needs to happen is to let it collapse, and FORCE these people to create a private sector that actually MAKES something