Money For Nothing: The Radical Growth of the Gazan Population; Where's the "Genocide"?

American Thinker ^ | 11/09/2023 | Jerold Levoritz

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To understand Gaza, you must understand what a welfare state on steroids looks like. This is a state that produces nothing, living only on the largesse of others. To hide this destructive parasitism, it has not only actual “workers” but also “idle workers,” a term I borrow from the Talmud. The former work and get value for their wages; the latter happily do little or nothing and get the same or lower wages. Those in the second category think they’re getting money for nothing, but they could not be more wrong—and Gaza is Exhibit A.

Now let’s attend to the Gazans. I arbitrarily chose 18-year intervals to chart their population growth.

From 1951-1968 Gaza grew from 278,000 to 354,760 or an increase of 28%

From 1969-1987 Gaza grew from 354,760 to 868,100 or 144%

From 1987-2005 Gaza grew from 868,100 to 1,500,000 or 72%

From 2005-2023 Gaza grew from 1,500,000 to 2,380,000 or 58%

None of these increases represent natural (normal) population increases. The problem is that these substantial growth levels were experienced alongside unemployment rates from 50% to 80%. Here is where we begin to understand the unusual nature of Gaza compared to the rest of the world.

Poverty has always been epidemic in Gaza but here’s an interesting factoid, which is that there’s always money for bureaucrats: Before 2006, there were 80,000 government workers in the pay of the Palestinian Authority (PA). When Hamas threw out the Palestinian Authority in 2006, the PA continued to pay their salaries to maintain their loyalties. They were no longer working but were receiving the same salaries.

Having them on the payroll not only bought their loyalty, it allowed statistical lies.

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In 2021, the Palestinian authorities claim the unemployment rate was 44.7%, which probably would not include those still being paid by the Palestinian Authority while staying at home. n other words, donor nations were snookered into believing that they were helping create a viable economy.

More factoids: Gaza normally receives 455 trucks of aid per day. That is unusual for most places in the world. Of course, it has no exports except for some agricultural produce. Gaza does not manufacture its daily needs and wants. Essentially, everything is imported.
What is going on here? The population increases, while unemployment is very high. Most of Gaza’s needs are imported through the largesse of Europe and the United States. People in Gaza are willing to live at lower wages scales if they do not have to exert themselves. This circumstance makes them a captive population, like all welfare-dependent groups, and it perverts normal population dynamics. Under normal circumstances, people will move from places of high unemployment to places with better possibilities.

[cgbg]

Math needs to be banned before it is too late!

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[chuckee]

A territory of bums.

[caww]

Saw a big fat Palestinian woman ranting and raving about no food that they were starving while she's chewing with a mouthful of food. They are and will always cry out their victim-hood when in fact they themselves celebrate they don't have to work for anything. More than 75 years of being fed like rabbits so their woman can multiply their childern to keep the cannon fodder in good supply...and the ideology of sadistic hatred and violence alive.

[PGR88]

I expect Israel’s way out is to take over control over all those channels of aid. They need to create their own approved local ruling class of Palestinians, their own approved mosques, their own channels of patronage, money and development.

They probably will also need to copy many aspects of China’s “social credit score” social-management, and very strong biometrics, to know everything about every Gaza resident.

its a generational project, but its how you can integrate a hostile population into Israel’s control.

[Chode]

and they are ALL inbred worse than da hood...

[rlmorel]

Good article.

[GOPJ]

Gaza is more than 7,200 truckloads short of the aid usually imported since Israel launched a blockade on the strip, according to CNN.

The territory normally receives 455 aid trucks per day, the United Nations said. Therefore, 7,280 trucks should have arrived between October 7 and October 22.

Hamas militants carried out a deadly attack on Israel on October 7, killing 1,400 people and kidnapping hundreds of others.

The Israeli government has since imposed a complete siege on food, fuel and water entering the Palestinian enclave. Rights groups have warned much more aid is needed in Gaza, where more than 2 million civilians are at risk of severe dehydration and starvation.

above from link: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-23-23/h_38678b715d6ed9c116dd0b92c9f900b8

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I think we can assume a large portion of that aid comes from the United States taxpayers.

[ridesthemiles]

AVERAGE number of kids in GAZA per woman== 8.2

That is an over load of mouths to feed.

[Organic Panic]

The poor breed. F*&^ing is their form of entertainment.