Posted on 03/18/2008 10:37:46 AM PDT by Alouette
GAZA, March 18 (Reuters) - Palestinians inaugurated a symbolic graveyard on Tuesday for factories forced to close by an Israeli blockade that they say is killing jobs.
"The Main Gaza Cemetery for Factories" contains some 40 graves covered with the Palestinian flags and flowers.
"The Plastic Tools factory, 190 workers became jobless," the inscription on one headstone reads. "The Print House, 150 workers lost their source of living," reads another.
The cemetery was established by the Popular Anti-Siege Committee, a group campaigning against the border restrictions that Israel tightened after Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June.
Jamal al-Khudary, a Hamas-backed lawmaker and chairman of the committee, said 3,900 factories in Gaza had closed since the blockade began.
Palestinian and foreign agencies have said at least 90,000 Gazans have lost their jobs since June and that unemployment in the territory, home to 1.5 million people, now tops 70 percent.
Israel refuses to deal with Hamas, which has rejected international demands to recognise its right to exist, and has largely kept crossings with the Gaza Strip closed while allowing through humanitarian aid and basic materials. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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Gee, I wonder why the palis have problems making a living. Maybe it has something to do with their refusal to leave the dark ages? Their constant war against civilization? Their unquenchable thirst for Jewish blood? Their insane religion of hatred and oppression? Their hatred of freedom? Naw, it must be the JOOZ!
What happened to those golden days? Oh, yeah...you started shelling your workplace with rockets and blew up pizza parlors full of innocent children.
It's a little thing Western science calls "cause and effect." Get with the program.
There are plenty of shuttered factories in our rust belt. Guess we can blame the jews too.
My thought exactly.
The solution to this problem lies in their own hands.
But I guess it's just too hard to restrain your more bestial brothers blood thirsty tendencies.
It's not like Israel hasn't bent over backwards to help you ungrateful bastards time and again.
___ Death to Israel. We are at eternal war against them until they are pushed into the sea, drowned and eaten by fish.
___ Israel owes us jobs, food, water, ammo, capital equipment and big piles of money.
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This from a government that insisted that, as a condition of taking complete control of Gaza, that all Jews leave, including employers, and that the industrial parks bordering Israel, free trade zones, be shut down. And when greenhouses were purchased by American Jews (no international funding could be found) in the name of industrial development, they were looted. It was a political scam of Sharon's, but the casino planned for the northern Gaza border was scrapped. After all Jews would be patroninzing the place.
Over 1,700 Hamas rockets have been fired on Sderot, Israel. Numerous Israeli factories left Sderot. Twenty percent of families have moved from Sderot. A Jewish group in the US offered to pay to bring Sderot children to the US and keep them until the rockets stop. Some Sderot families did send their children here.
A new type rocket, the “Grad” began hitting Ashkelon, a larger city of over 100,000 about three weeks ago. Barak stepped up incursions into Gaza and killed over 100 Hamas terrorists, including some of their leaders. Every time a rocket hit, Barak killed more Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Right now, today, no rockets are being fired. If they start up again, more Hamas will die.
I wonder if these factories are anything like Saddam’s “baby Milk Factory” from a few years ago.
Sort of like a child who killed his parents and then sobs “I’m an orphan”..
This waste reminds me of how the arabs are sitting on probably the nicest beach in the area — Gush -— amazingly self-destructive wild men.
They could be rich, fat, and happy -— if they just stopped killing each other and everyone else.
No, most of them were probably built and paid for by Israeli do-gooder programs — like greenhouses built by Jews for arabs -— who, instead of milking the cow, killed and ate it.
Gee! I was wondering whether to invest in a start-up factory in Gaza or one in my home town. Let me see..............
If the “Gazans” weren’t the animals they are, they could build up a good tourist economy, taking advantage of the warm climate and the beach. But that may never have entered their one-track jihadist minds.
Who else would take a swathe of prime beachfront real estate and turn it into the world's largest open air latrine?
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