I never thought I would be defending people in Gaza.
Have you any idea how many people live there? And that due to the closed borders the is no industry.
I support Israel and I think the Gazans should give Hamas the boot. But to expect them to “go out and get jobs” just indicates a complete lack of understanding.
I dunno, the tunnel business was booming there for a while.
The “innocent” gazanians voted for hamas. They have no jobs because they are too busy indoctrinating their children, launching rockets, building attack tunnels and generally being uncivilized. Last year they even murdered Mickey Mouse (posed as a Jew) in a children’s video for school. What a culture. Losers all. They are like cockroaches...if there are 6 or 6,000,000 in the house, I still want to eliminate them all.
Don’t forget about all of the greenhouses, hothouses, and so forth for growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables that the Israeli’s left for the people of Gaza. Those products were exported all over the world. Hamas immediately destroyed all of it after the Israelis left.
Vermont: Charles Krauthammer wrote recently in the Washington Post about how Palestinians in Gaza treated the lucrative industry bequeathed to them when the Israelis evacuated settlers from Gaza:
"...Does no one remember anything? It was less than 10 years ago that worldwide television showed the Israeli army pulling die-hard settlers off synagogue roofs in Gaza as Israel uprooted its settlements, expelled its citizens, withdrew its military and turned every inch of Gaza over to the Palestinians. There was not a soldier, not a settler, not a single Israeli left in Gaza. And there was no blockade. On the contrary. Israel wanted this new Palestinian state to succeed. To help the Gaza economy, Israel gave the Palestinians its 3,000 greenhouses that had produced fruit and flowers for export. It opened border crossings and encouraged commerce...
...And how did the Gaza Palestinians react to being granted by the Israelis what no previous ruler, neither Egyptian, nor British, nor Turkish, had ever given them — an independent territory? First, they demolished the greenhouses. Then they elected Hamas. Then, instead of building a state with its attendant political and economic institutions, they spent the better part of a decade turning Gaza into a massive military base, brimming with terror weapons, to make ceaseless war on Israel..."
Have you any idea how many people live there? And that due to the closed borders the is no industry.
Uhh, they were given an industry by Israel...A farming industry with international contracts...They destroyed it...
Their only industrial inclination is to buy and build weapons to destroy Israel...
“Have you any idea how many people live there?”
Yes. I was born and raised in Gush Katif and have been to all the towns of Gaza (really 3) many hundreds of times.
I’ve also flown over Gaza and dropped laser guided bombs on terrorists I probably knew by first name.
Your point as to “too many people” is true. Just like welfare queens in the projects have babies to get money, the arabs in Gaza do the same.