Posted on 06/18/2006 12:12:24 PM PDT by Sabramerican
4 Months Into Aid Cutoff, Gazans Barely Scrape By
JABALIYA CAMP, Gaza Strip, June 16 — In the fourth month without salaries from the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, the Abu Rizek family scours greenhouses after the harvest, looking for potatoes left in the ground.
Mariam al-Wahedi no longer receives her $21 a month from social services and is living off the $200 she got last month by selling her last piece of jewelry, a bracelet given to her 30 years ago. Khalid Muhammad, a policeman, moonlights in a friend's shop, selling used cellphone batteries for $2.25, and says he now yells at his wife and sometimes hits his children. Umm Jihad, with six children, begs in the market.
Awni Shibrawi, a jeweler, admits that he is almost too bad-tempered to go to work in his shop and sit all day doing nothing. Khadida Farajabah, a vegetable seller, says she has granted nearly $2,000 in credit, digging out the list she keeps inside her blouse, and cannot afford to give any more. Majid Nofad, a butcher, says business is down 60 percent and he has stopped giving credit after the total mounted to nearly $3,000.
More middle-aged men can be seen on the piers of Gaza, fishing with boys, to try to catch some protein for dinner. Couples are postponing marriage. Muhammad Kahloot, a colonel in the Palestinian police, is trying to decide whether he can afford the $700 his son, Khaled, needs to finish his last semester at the university, or whether to use the money for food and utilities.
When Colonel Kahloot uses his cellphone, he hangs up quickly, so his number appears as a "missed call" and he is not charged, leaving it up to a friend to phone him back.
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This is what happens when you have 90% of your population "employed" as refugees sitting around doing nothing.
Wall off the entire country and let them be, eventually they will decide to join the civilized world.
Is that before or after he makes them put on their explosive vests?
"The second major employer in Gaza, after the Palestinian Authority, is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which is responsible for registered refugees — some 70 percent of Gaza's population. The agency employs 9,100 Gaza residents and continues to pay salaries."
Give them a State. Their GNP comes from working for a terrorist Government and "working" for the UN.
(4 Months Into Aid Cutoff, Gazans Barely Scrape By)
TFB. THey wanted a terrorist organization as tgheir government, they got it. And all that goes with it. Enjoy.
The Palis looted and destroyed a huge food producing greenhouse complex left by the Isrealis that would have employed hundreds.
"...eventually they will decide to join the civilized world."
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That's what got us into this mess, everyone assuming that given the right amount of time (and money) they would decide to join the "civilized world". Their definition of civilized is cleaning up the world of folks who don't agree with them and stealing their land.
It's good to hear that the "wipe Israel off the face of the Earth" thing with Hamas isn't going too well.
They are all crying, and they MSM crying with them, because they can't draw what is esentially welfare payments! Why don't they start a real economy and then they wouldn't have to worry about extorting money from the rest of the world?
Mariam al-Wahedi no longer receives her $21 a month from social services and is living off the $200 she got last month by selling her last piece of jewelry, a bracelet given to her 30 years ago. Khalid Muhammad, a policeman, moonlights in a friend's shop, selling used cellphone batteries for $2.25, and says he now yells at his wife and sometimes hits his children. Umm Jihad, with six children, begs in the market.. . . ."
They must have completely run out of sons and daughters to sign up for that $25,000 to be family sacrifices (aka suicide bombers) to the family income.
New Jersey sounds about right.
Sometimes a group of people choose to be stupid or evil.Until they change their thinking and actions it will get worse.
Change your name, honey.
Not a lick of sympathy for these murder loving parasitic leaches on society.
IIRC, that was coming from Saddam Hussein. His assets were...liquidated.
was their choice
Maybe they can each sell off a couple of vowels... I hear Wheel of Fortune sells them for about $150 each...
They voted Hamas. Now they must face the consequences.
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