Posted on 11/27/2011 7:39:56 PM PST by BlackVeil
Farmers in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip began exporting hundreds of tons of produce to Europe on Sunday after Israel cracked open its border with Gaza for Palestinian goods.
A truckload of strawberries left Gaza to launch the season, which is to run through May.
Israel has tightly controlled the flow of goods to and from Gaza since the Islamic terrorist movement Hamas violently overran the tiny seaside territory of 1.5 million people in June 2007.
Israel imposed a sweeping land and sea blockade immediately after the takeover in an attempt to put pressure on Hamas. ...
Yousef Shaath of Gaza’s Agricultural Development Association said 250 farmers hope to export 600 tons of strawberries, 350 tons of bell peppers, 160 tons of cherry tomatoes and 17 million carnations, for estimated revenues of $25 million.
That’s up dramatically from ...last year.
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I thought they were all starving?
If I know it came from a muslim I pass it by.
I boycott anything muslims produce. It’s been prtty easy.
If I could boycott their oil, I’d do that too.
It seems not. Anyone for strawberries?
Ah, but the strawberries! That’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist!
If the Palis have repeatedly never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Israel has repeatedly bitten its nose off to spite its face and am very surprised by the pragmatism shown with this move, dropping their dogmatic stance of sticking it to the Palis, Arab World.
LOL, you been watching old movies again? Quigg was saving those berrys for himselg you know
Nope, haven’t see it in decades.
My ex says I free associate better than anyone she’s ever met outside of a mental institution...
Now that was damn funny! Along with the Palestinian fire-alarm.
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