[ncountylee]

Gaza is an open sewer filled with vermin.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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[seppel]

I fully agree with your sentiment. But look at Zimbabwe, which was once Rhodesia. It had a functioning economy, profitable farms, good infrastructure, primary and even secondary industries (arms, trains, and mining equipment), a first world health system, budget surplus and security. Everybody in the world (except the whites in southern Africa) wanted Mugabe to take over. The result:

Nothing left. The place has been ravaged. 12 Mio. starving. The world is mum.

South Africa is going down the same drain. When the pals took over Gaza I knew this would be the result. The problem is that pointing to this obvious result is apparently no valid argument in the liberal playbook which governs international politics.