Posted on 08/10/2018 11:57:36 AM PDT by SJackson
PETZAEL, West Bank -- An Israeli businessman appears to have bitten off more than he can chew with plans for a crocodile farm in a West Bank settlement. Hundreds of crocodiles have been stranded at the farm in a remote spot in the Jordan Valley -- left behind by a pair of failed business ventures.
The crocodiles were brought to the settlement of Petzael in the mid-1990s as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Israeli-Palestinian violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles' purchase by entrepreneur Gadi Biton, who hoped to sell them for their skin.
But his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise. Multiple attempts to sell them abroad have failed.
"We found ourselves with hundreds of crocodiles in this farm that no one knows what to do with," said David Elhayani, head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council. A lone worker feeds the animals dead chickens once every eight days.
Dozens of the crocodiles lazed recently on the sun-baked shores of a lagoon on the property, their jaws ajar, revealing menacing teeth.
The animals have become a pain for the owner, the region and Israel. Dozens of crocodiles have escaped on two occasions, including once when 70 flew the coop only to be found after a three-day croc-hunt. The reptiles, which can live well into their 70s, are also reproducing. Their numbers are expected to grow to the thousands in the coming years.
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Catapult them one at a time onto a crowd of Gaza “protestors” until the crowd disappears.
Reptilian. Not kosher.
Choot ‘em.
A few years back, the Bishop of New Orleans opined that gators, while not fish, could be consumed by Catholics during Lenten Fridays.
When left to their own, with no escape route, the ‘problem’ will eventually solve itself.
But you will have ONE HUGE Croc left to deal with...............
Akin to shrimp, lobster, etc?
Ship them to Texas as border guards.
I know! Free croc pots!
Lay down a food trail into the Gaza strip and set them free.
Sounds like it would still be legal to chop them up for crocodile food as long as you aren't selling the meat.
Eventually you get down to just one crocodile and you can give him to the Germans for pig food.
Gators have scales, right? To be Kosher a fish must have scales, IIUC. So catfish = no; gator = yes.
How could that many crocs ever have become a tourist attraction? They can’t be trained to play vollyballs like dolphin or toot bicycle horns like seals.
Maybe Florida could use them to eat the pythons running multiplying and eating all the wildlife.
ADD a moat around the West Bank.
“Catapult them one at a time onto a crowd of Gaza “protestors” until the crowd disappears.”
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Better yet, launch them into the “antifa” thugs while they are beating on the skulls of innocents.
Protected critter, remember?
If that had been an option, he’d have sold the skins and meat.
Does Israel law prohibit ex post facto laws?
Given the local law, perhaps the Israeli crocs could be put to use as dead terrorist disposal units?
Unfortunately, the Israelis don’t kill their captured terrorists. They warehouse them until the Palis manage grab an Israeli soldier (or his corpse) and are forced to trade them back.
However, dumping live Pali terrorists into a pond of hungry crocs on pay-per-view might slow up the terrorism a bit.
maybe IDF can train the crocodiles to eat up all the Muslim terrorists?
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