Wednesday - January 23, 2008

The Problem With Walls

The problem with walls ... is that you have to watch both sides of them. You can’t just build one and then walk away. Bad things tend to happen to them.

Paleoswinians blew up the 40 foot high wall between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of them raced into Eqypt to buy food, clothing, and cigarettes.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Tens of thousands of Palestinians on foot and on donkey carts poured into Egypt from Gaza Wednesday after masked gunmen used land mines to blast down a seven-mile barrier dividing the border town of Rafah.

UN personnel said they estimated the number of Palestinians who entered Egypt to be 350,000.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced that he had ordered his troops to allow Palestinians to cross into Egypt because they were starving.

Starving huh? Then explain this one:

“We want to buy food, we want to buy rice and sugar, milk and wheat and some cheese,” Abu Taha said, adding that he would also buy cheap Egyptian cigarettes.

Abu Taha said he could get the basic foods in Gaza, but at three times the cost.

Sounds more like bargain hunting to me. What, was Egypt having a half off sale?

The border breach was a dramatic protest against the closure of the impoverished Palestinian territory imposed last week by Israel.

Jubilant men and women crossed unhindered by border controls over the toppled corrugated metal along sections of the barrier, carrying goats, chickens and crates of Coca-Cola. Some brought back televisions, car tires and cigarettes and one man even bought a motorcycle. Vendors sold soft drinks and baked goods to the crowds.

I wonder if that crazy haired guy from NOLA was leading the charge?

An off-duty Hamas security officer who identified himself as Abdel Rahman, 29, said this was his first time out of Gaza. “I can smell the freedom,” he said. “We need no border after today.”

There’s a joke in here somewhere ... Israel calls up Egypt and says, “Remember how we said “Let my people go”?, well it took a few thousand years but we’ve changed our mind. You can have them back!”

Hamas, which took control of the coastal territory last June after a stand-off with Fatah, has denied that its men set off the explosions that brought down as much as two-thirds of the 12-km wall in the early hours.

But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border today admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches.

That meant that when the explosive charges were set off in 17 different locations after midnight last night the 40ft wall came tumbling down, leaving it lying like a broken concertina down the middle of no-man’s land as an estimated 350,000 Gazans flooded into Egypt.

The guard, Lieutenant Abu Usama of the Palestinian National Security, said of the cutting operation: “I’ve seen this happening over the last few months. It happened in the daytime but was covered up so that nobody would see.”

Asked whether he had reported it to the government, he replied: “It was the government that was doing this. Who would I report it to?”

Gah ... I’m depressed. I’m so sick of the crap, everywhere you turn. Israel will get a big fat black eye over this one no doubt. Cuz they “forced” Hamas to use cutting torches for months to pre-slice the wall so that a mere 17 landmines could blow down miles of it today ... that’s right, they forced it ... by responding to an endless rain of missiles being fired at them for years by these feral freaks by shutting off power a couple days ago. This kind of Mobius Logic just makes me throw up my hands. No doubt Condi The Brave^tm will be over there in a flash, chiding the Knesset for their horrible inhumane behavior. Dumbshit.

It’s a damn shame the Izzy’s don’t have a dozen miles of Instant Wall they could replace this with. Let all the little animals run to Egypt then put a new wall back up. “‘Right of Return’? What’s that?”

Read all about it at Atlas Shrugs

and at the Times UK

and the Jerusalem Post

and even Yahoo News

Posted by Drew458     on 01/23/2008 at 04:02 PM   
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