Friday - September 15, 2006

The Worlds Smallest Violin

I’m sorry but I can’t work up even an ounce of sympathy for these animals. For decades they have sent wave after wave of suicide bombers into Israel to blow up innocent men, women and children. They have actively supported terrorism around the world. They “elected” Yassir Arafat, a known butcher, as their leader then after him they gave their “government” to Hamas, a known terrorist organization. They declared an ”Intifada” in 2000 for no good reason, other than a desire to murder Jews. They danced in the streets when the Twin Towers fell. They have done everything in their power to offend civilized peoples everywhere and continued their barbaric behavior in spite of the fact that an overly generous world has poured millions of dollars in asssistance and aid to these ungrateful cretins.

Now they are on the verge of starvation, wallowing in self-pity .... and they want you and me to help them. I am sorry but my charitable spirit has left the building, may God have mercy on me. I can no longer tolerate this bunch and I wish them all a speedy death. Every single one of them. Does that sound like I am advocating genocide? I prefer to think of it as triage. Sometimes you just have to throw up your hands and let the “victim” die - so you can move on to help someone who has a chance of living ... or who has a better chance of living a useful life. There are too many innocent refugees around the world who need assistance and will accept any help they can get without planning to murder the good samaritan after he gives them a helping hand.

Yes, I am in a real bad damn mood today, mainly because I despise articles like this from the New York Times, trying to play on my sympathies and humanity in an attempt to generate pity ... and aid for these monsters. As long as the media keeps portraying them as victims, the madness will continue. It’s time to put away the worlds smallest violin. There just is no harmony in this tune ....

Cut Off, Gazan Economy Nears Collapse
_{KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip (NEW YORK TIMES) - September 14, 2006}

For the last week, Zidan Abu Reziq has been sleeping outside, next to his plantings on a small square of sand he expropriated. The Abu Reziqs, like many of the large, destitute refugee families in this shrapneled, tumbledown slum, need to plant to eat.

They took the land and planted it with vegetables, an investment of about $50, most of the money that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency gave them to buy school uniforms for the children.

Zidan’s wife, Tamam, admits her 51-year-old husband sleeps with his plants because he needs to protect their investment in the lawless chaos of Gaza, where his own small theft of land, 20 square yards that belongs to the government, is dwarfed by the huge expropriations by gangs and families and militia groups that have taken over much of the best land left behind when the Israelis pulled out their settlers a year ago.

It is difficult to exaggerate the economic collapse of Gaza, with the Palestinian Authority cut off from funds by Israel, the United States and the European Union after Hamas won the legislative elections on Jan. 25. Since then, the authority has paid most of its 73,000 employees here, nearly 40 percent of Gaza’s work force, only 1.5 months’ salary, resulting in a severe economic depression and growing signs of malnutrition, especially among the poorest children.

Few here are using the United Nations grants for school. The Abu Reziqs are carefully investing the rest of their relief money. More than $20 went straight to the local grocer, Tamam said, as a down payment on the credit extended to the family, which still owes more than $200. About $11 went to buy the ingredients, including two chickens, for the couscous dish that Tamam and her daughter, Fatma, 29, are making early this morning, kneading relief agency flour in big aluminum bowls, pouring in relief agency oil, rubbing the flour over a screen to get the right consistency.

The result will serve 15 people, Tamam said. “We want to feed the people who helped us with the land,” she said, and some of their neighbors, even worse off than they. Gaza’s situation has worsened since Palestinian gunmen, including those from Hamas, killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third on June 25. Israel reinvaded Gaza, and has since killed more than 240 Palestinians, many of them in gun battles.

An Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s only electrical power plant means that most Gazans now get only 7 to 12 hours a day of electricity, at unpredictable hours, with running water largely dependent on electric pumps. Fishermen, now prevented from going more than a few hundred yards from shore by the Israeli Navy, are using hand-thrown nets from the beach to catch a few sprats and sardines.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/15/2006 at 02:38 AM   
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