[livius]

I’m in Israel right now. The contrast between the Israeli controlled areas and the PA controlled areas is enormous. The former are clean, modern and busy while, the Arab areas are covered with political graffiti, dirty, crumbling except for some areas where Arabs who work in Israel are building decent houses - and, of course, the palatial offices built for the PA government.

[hal ogen]

That also should include the loony agreements by Israel to supply these anal warts with electricity, water and so forth.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for that first hand report. It doesn’t surprise me.

I think there is a lot of commonality between how Gaza is governed and the Leftists in our nation govern.

Look at the areas in the U. S. controlled by the Leftists.

[EvilOverlord]

The contrast between the Israeli controlled areas and the PA controlled areas is enormous

Yeah, I know someone who visited there and saw the same thing. He blamed the squalor on Israeli oppression, not on the Palestinian government. There is no bridging the gap in worldview.

[morphing libertarian]

you can even see it in Jerusalem. Look at the fantastic abundance and cleanliness of the Yehuda Market and then the Arab markets by the Damascus gate; like day and night.