[JAWs]

Someone who claims to know told me that if Israel closed out the West Bank Arabs, Israel's economy would collapse. Apparently, most of Israel's menial dirty work is done by Arabs, same as Mexicans do most of it in the American southwest.

Then that guy knows squat. For years guest workers- mostly Thai and Romanian- have been working in increasing numbers in Israel. There will always be sources of willing workers who have the extra advantage that when they get angry and blow up at the boss do not do so literally.

In fact the opposite is true. Without Israel's strong market economy, the Pals are doing a gainer into deep penury that the UN and Arab blood largress can not puull them out of.

[cake_crumb]

"Without Israel's strong market economy, the Pals are doing a gainer into deep penury that the UN and Arab blood largress can not puull them out of"

...Good thing Saddam, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon are supporting them, or the rest of the world might think there's a problem with the Pali government.

The Palis have another industry that no one has mentioned on this thread...they produce mass quantities of homocide bombers which the above three countries pay big bucks for. Otherwise, many Pali families would have no income to spend on "bread."

[robowombat]

Right on target. There are so many foreign, non-Arab guest workers in Israel that white slave trade operations to service this population has become a major criminal problem. Israel has become a very complex nation with a lot of non-Jewish population groups present.

[Commie Basher]

For years guest workers- mostly Thai and Romanian- have been working in increasing numbers in Israel.

I know about them (I thought there were more Philipinos?). The Jerusalem Report ran a story on them last winter. I think it said there were several hundred thousand (300,000?) Asian guest workers. And that many of them (and some Israeli activists) felt the guest workers were being exploited, and were trying to organize them into unions. And that some guest workers might want full rights, such as citizenship, which worries Israelis who want to maintain Israel's Jewish majority.

I thought the parallels to the US -- a third world labor force vs. Jewish "Buchananites" (my term) -- was ironic.

I guess the Jerusalem Report is "liberal," but it often has interesting articles on topics not covered in the US.