[Eleutheria5]

Strange. If it was a matter of taxes, they could have sold the vegetables, deducted the taxes and expenses of seizure, and given what was left to the truck driver when he got out of jail. If the vegetables were a health hazard, nobody would have bought them in the first place, because they would have looked wrong. So why destroy them if they were healthy, and why try to sell them if they were not?

[grania]

I’m baffled. Why not just let Palis sell their veggies in Israel and any other place they choose to? Exporting vegetables is not a terrorist endeavor.

[ConservativeMind]

There is no easy way to determine they were not poisoned.

[House Atreides]

According to suspicions, the truck driver intended to market the produce in Israel.
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Jeez, ya think!

[Gen.Blather]

“So why destroy them if they were healthy, and why try to sell them if they were not? “

Government workers are like chess pieces. They can only do certain things. So, the vegies end up in the hands of a bureaucrat whose only authority is to confiscate and destroy. He has no other options and bureaucrats are not allowed to get creative. That would be cause for instant dismissal.

I would imagine that if he ended up with something that was not in the rule book, a live tiger cub, for example, he could get creative and send it to the local zoo. But, that’s about it for creativity.

[Chode]

i thought all the vermin in gaza were starving... why don't they sell them there?

[Candor7]

Strange. If it was a matter of taxes, they could have sold the vegetables, deducted the taxes and expenses of seizure, and given what was left to the truck driver when he got out of jail. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Tis is not a matter involving simple importation of produce. Its a security matter. Even if the present attempt to smuggle vegetables from Gaza was legitimate, the producer/driver would soon be pressured or extorted by the Muslim Brotherhood to convert the truck into a drive-able bomb, or smuggle IEDs into Israel for use against innocent people.

This is not the fault of Israel, but the fault of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the criminal syndicate that calls itself representative of the Palestinians in Gaza, when in fact they are a terrorist organization which refuses to recognize Israel as a Nation.

I applaud the security that Israel has on its borders. I wish we had the same on our Southern border to combat the human slave trade and the barrage of smuggled drugs into our cities via the drug cartels.

A vegetable does not change the fact that the primary function of any border needs to be security.

[Fhios]

Unless it’s disinfo

[Vaquero]

But howa gonna maka the melanzane parmagian.

[Dr. Sivana]

Any Israelis who want zucchini need only leave their unlocked vehicle in the parking lot of a midwestern Catholic Church on Sunday during Mass. Better than even chance a whole bag of zucchini will be waiting for them when they revisit the vehicle an hour later.

[Mercat]

Put down the zucchini, step away from the zucchini.

[KC_Conspirator]

Is that a zucchini in your pants or are you just glad to see me?

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Wonder if the truck carried only eggplant and zucchini? Or was suspected. Or just a stupid driver, or a test.