After years of producing bug-free lettuce and other vegetables for Jewish farmers, the sands of Gaza have reverted to their old ways. PA farmers report failure in keeping the bugs away.
Posted on 12/13/2005 5:14:22 AM PST by SJackson
After years of producing bug-free lettuce and other vegetables for Jewish farmers, the sands of Gaza have reverted to their old ways. PA farmers report failure in keeping the bugs away.
The Gaza Arabs who have taken over the hothouses of what used to be Gush Katif reported to the Israel-PA Coordination Office that they have failed in raising bug-free vegetables.
In addition, the PA workers complain that their wages from their compatriots and brethren are significantly lower now than what they received from the Israelis.
Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports that the Jews of Gush Katif operated 3,600 dunams (890 acres) of hothouses as of last year, of which the PA - with international help - has managed to activate three-fourths. The Arabs had hoped to build on the Jews' success, selling to the market the Israelis had built up over the years. The bug-free vegetables were particularly attractive to the religious and hareidi-religious publics, for reasons of kashrut.
The Jews who first arrived in Gaza some 30 years ago were repeatedly told by the Arabs who welcomed them that the land was "cursed" and that they would never succeed agriculturally. Benny Ginzberg, standing last May in the large Katif-Atzmona dairy he managed, pointed at the houses of the Arab city of Khan Yunis, several hundred meters away, and said, "Those houses have been here since before the Six Day War. If they wanted this land, what stopped them from spreading out to here before? ... When we first came, they told us that we were crazy for even trying to build something here. 'The land is cursed,' they told us. Well, we built something, something very great..."
Ma'yan Yadai, a 27-year-old mother of two who was thrown out of Gush Katif - she was originally a Croatian Catholic who converted to Judaism, fled Yugoslavia, and moved to Netzer Hazani - spoke about Gush Katif before a gathering of the National Council of Young Israel in New York recently. She said, "It is difficult for me to believe that this obviously blessed area is the very same area that our Moslem neighbors called the ‘cursed land’ of El G’erara. They have told me that nobody lived in this area from the time that the last Jews left because there was not enough rain, and nothing could grow properly. They were happy when the Jews returned because the rain started again, and the land began to produce."
Farmers in Gush Katif were considered among Israel's most successful; their total annual exports totaled $100 million, or 15% of Israel's agricultural exports. Of Israel's exports abroad, Gush Katif exported to Europe 95% of the bug-free lettuce and greens, 70% of the organic vegetables, 60% of the cherry tomatoes, and 60% of the geraniums. Israel's largest plant nursery was in the Gush Katif community of Atzmonah. Other Katif produce included spices, green, red and yellow peppers, celery and more.
Israel's Defense Ministry sources told Huberman that the Palestinian Authority farmers were unable to develop the techniques necessary for bug-free produce.
Some of the original Israeli greenhouses were damaged or destroyed by Arabs immediately after Israel withdrew, but the PA was able to rebuild them. As of now, the only crop the Arabs are raising successfully is strawberry.
ROFLMAO.......GOOD! To me, proof positive the one TRUE God blesses his True chosen people and curses those who curse them.
Hee hee.
Amen to your comments - - whose God is GOD, yes?
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Gaza Arabs ... have failed in raising bug-free vegetables.In addition, the PA workers complain that their wages from their compatriots and brethren are significantly lower now than what they received from the Israelis.
Quit whining. The Jews are gone which was the objective.
Yes, it is to me too. It also chills me to the bone when I consider so many of the ways of the USA today. We are what we are because God has chosen to bless us. Should His blessing depart from us...
Ah, but are they really gone? Clearly they are hard at work sending bugs into the greenhouses.
I'm sure that, very soon, we'll see photographs of the underground bug-pipes. ;D
Amen :)
Further proof of my theory that it really, really pisses God off when somebody calls him "allah"...
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Sounds familiar:
Exodus 8:22
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 9:26
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Because life is a 1000 times better under Israelis than under your Muslim 'brethren', you idiots!
Psss....yo, Islamazis...
TAKE THE HINT!
Yeah, you can totally live on strawberries. /sarcasm
Wait a minute, didn't I read something here about all the peppers they grew and sold, recently????
Let's face it. Any instincts towards natural self preservation, have been bred out of this bunch of useless professional victims.
Yes, it was quite an accomplishment. 2 1/2 tons. Maybe $5,000. Formerly a $100-$130 million industry. They've got some work to do.
Yep, they'd better get to steppin' ;-)
But of course, what did they expect? Anyone who thinks Palestinians can in any way, form or shape achieve what Israel has attained is plain nuts:
* They have won every war they have been drawn to, including one launched by a coalition of five (or six, can't remember) just the day after they became a state.
* They resurrected a "dead" language.
* They rescued a plane full of innocent people highjacked by a bunch of crazy extremists, flew four, C-130 into a land under a rutheless dictatorship and in a most daring and succesful operation pulled out all but one hostage (who had been sent to a hospital... or her death, previously), and lost only one of its Army officers, Yonathan Netanyahu.
* They made the desert bloom.
We use a little lime. Put some in an old pair of nylons and shake gently over the lettuce.
A light coating will do fine.
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