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The BBC reports:
Much of Gaza is a great mass of apartment blocks - flung up to house the exploding population.
(Via reader PJ)
“It is a place where people get educated, have careers, dance at weddings, raise their children, and make the best of life by the Mediterranean.”
Oooh, the wonderful UN and US (for a time) sponsored education that teaches all about infidels, the art of suicide-homicide bombing, holocaust denial for dummies, and of course, how to help your local Hamas cell leader…
“Large banners and posters have gone up on the main roads in towns and cities the length of Gaza. They carry slogans like, “Let’s Build Our Homeland”.”
Hmmm… that’s a refreshing change, I’m guessing that means no Palestinians held up banners denouncing Judaism as satanism or pictures of so-called martyrs, or other banners calling for Israel’s destruction.
Also no mention from the BBC of the way the ‘refugee’ population is exploited, even though they no doubt had the space to denounce the Israeli ‘stunt’ of leaving Synagogues behind in their coverage of Palestinians destroying such holy places…
Also interesting that the BBC presents Gaza as a mixing pot of culture and Muslim tolerance
(Hi Tim! Long time reader, first time poster!)
What a total wankfest. That’s not reporting; that’s a bloody press release.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 09 15 at 06:10 AM • permalinkDistinguished Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes sees Ariel Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza “as on of the worst errors ever made by a democracy” and “a recipe for war” in this article.
To Palestinian rejectionists, an Israeli retreat under fire sends an unambiguous signal: Terrorism works. Just as the Israeli departure from Lebanon five years earlier provoked new violence, so too will fleeing Gaza. Palestinians ignore all the verbiage about “disengagement” and see it for what it really is, an Israeli retreat under fire.
This is the opposite to what many observers are hoping, but he makes a compelling argument that appeasement simply won’t work. Palestinians, Pipes believes, want the whole of Israel.
The BBC of late has become so retentive that they quite frequently make howlers like that one. THe 1 o’clock is great fodder if you want to hear that sort of verbal cock-up.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2005 09 15 at 07:23 AM • permalinkThe BBC says,
“but it is also a place like many others. It is a place where people get educated, have careers, dance at weddings, raise their children, and make the best of life by the Mediterranean…
this is a time of anticipation in Gaza.If that is true then humanity is fundamentally stupid.
(Belmont Club)
NEW YORK — American Jewish philanthropists contributed $14 million to buy former Gaza settlers’ greenhouses for Palestinians, a news report said yesterday. Without the funds, the Jewish settlers would have destroyed the greenhouses to keep them out of Arab hands as they were forced out of Gaza Strip, The New York Times said. The greenhouses provide jobs for 3,500 Palestinians and had been a lucrative market for fresh produces for Jewish settlers.And then
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians looted dozens of greenhouses on Tuesday, walking off with irrigation hoses, water pumps and plastic sheeting in a blow to fledgling efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip. ... Palestinian police stood by helplessly Tuesday as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and commanders complained they did not have enough manpower to protect the prized assets. In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said.
A place like many others? Make the best of life?
An absolutely ridiculous pullout- the result of a UN body which gives seats to the Palestinians for terrorism, an organisation where the name Chamberlain is associated with ‘nice try, anyway mate’, and pressure from nations which have not considered the Sinai pullout- exchange of land (settled land) for a peace agreement with Egypt (for what little that worth).
Israel should have remained until the Palestinians started to do what the roadmap requires of them and stop killing Jews.
I think the Sinai may have also been oil rich- does anyone know if this is correct?
The good part of the Israeli pullout is that anyone sneaking over the wall from Gaza into Israel can be legitmately designated as a “moving target”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 15 at 08:17 AM • permalinkMaybe the BBC have hired an editor from “the Onion”.
Posted by Torontosteve on 2005 09 15 at 08:22 AM • permalinkThe IDF, accused of war crimes? It’s possible, but given that some people think Israel shouldn’t exist at all, this is hardly a surprise.
And while I’m thinking about it…..No doubt the IDF has plenty of target reference points registered in Gaza. Between that, the pull out of the Israeli settlers, and UAVs, smart Palestinians will be digging bunkers instead of tunnels.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 15 at 09:31 AM • permalinkFlung up… and shortly to be flung back down again…
Give it month, and Hezbollah will have someplace to vacation if they feel nostalgic for the old Beirut…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 15 at 10:12 AM • permalinkAnd to build on Tim’s post, a tasteless joke…
Two Arab women were sitting in a roadside cafe in Gaza. One pulls out pictures of her three sons to show the other woman…
Woman 1 - “Here is my son Ahmed, he was martyred last year on that bus that exploded in Jerusalem”
Woman 2 - “Such a handsome shahid! As I recall there were many Israelis going to school and work on that bus!”
Woman 1 - “Very true. Now, here is Abdullah. He was martyred in that explosion in the marketplace in January”
Woman 2 - “Ah, that killed many Zionist infidels and their children shopping for food!”
Woman 1 - “Yes, they closed the checkpoints down for a month after that! Ah, but here is my little one, Saleem. He strapped an explosive device to his car and drove into a Zionist checkpoint last month”
Woman 2 - “There were many soldiers and workers that were killed. Truly Allah must have been pleased. You must be very proud of your sons for being such good shahids!”
Woman 1 - “Ah yes, but they do blow up so quickly!”
Those police must sit about watching a lot.On recent news a snippet about them standing and watching people going across the Egyptian border which they were supposed to close,but the populace were actually knocking parts of the barrier down.
Hamas have said recently now that they have Gaza they want the west bank and other areas also.Give em an inch…....O/t Scott Peace Activist Parkin featured on abc three times that I heard today..
local radio,talk about immigration and sending people back.
midday on r.n.. and ms Vanstone DEFENDED her right not to comment- five minutes Greenpeace rep and Bob Brown inclusive.
Between 2 and 3 pm “the deep end” on radio national when his friend and fellow activist Maureen Havers,was introduced as his colleague from Houston.
Her first comment “Scott realizes people are going to want to talk to someone in a pig suit more than to any ordinary person”.
Seems he’s just some sweet natured regular guy who never would,never could contemplate violence in any form.She also commented that he was really only here for a vacation and accidentally the local ferals found him and forced him to activate? So instead of the accidental tourist he’s the accidental activist-I see a Hollywood movie in the future -Mikey as producer/director/co-star…There was a cartoon about a year ago in Private Eye, with a Palestinian woman in front of a mirror getting dresses, clearly with some dynamite under her burka.
The caption: ‘Does my bomb look big in this?’
That Mediterranean coast should be a great place to live - good weather, beaches etc. Just go up the coast to Tel Aviv and it is like being on Manly beach, or anything on the south coast of France. But Gaza is a s**thole, and a beautful spot wasted.
The fact the Palestinians wanted the Jewish homes destroyed shows how stupid their leadership is. Are they so rich they can afford dwellings to be destroyed?
As one of the Israeli leaders said about Arafat: he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Posted by Flying Giraffe on 2005 09 15 at 12:33 PM • permalinkNo, I think old Sharon knew exactly what he was doing: improving his frontline as well as his interior lines.
From a purely operational viewpoint, Gaza was an awkward and costly outpost to maintain.
As for the Palestinians, what’s that old line? Oh yeah - “don’t wish too hard, you might get what you wished for.” Gaza is all theirs now.
Hope they have fun with it!
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2005 09 15 at 04:27 PM • permalinkThey’ve got a lot of PR work ahead of them if they want to convince me that Gaza’s exploding population live in an idyllic wonderland.
I don’t remember much of my high-school Arabic, but from what I can read on the sign behind the flags in the last picture, it says:
“Today Gaza, and tomorrow [flag] and Jerusalem”.
Not exactly “Let’s Build Our Homeland”.Posted by MamaWombat on 2005 09 15 at 10:05 PM • permalinkNow that they have a beach, will we see The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Swimsuit Edition?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 16 at 02:43 AM • permalink
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check the pics with the article - a muslim woman sitting on a gravestone in the british war cemetary - just imagine if an ifidel sat on a muslim tomb - hamas described as militant, not the terrorist murdering bastards they are - pfui