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U.N. Warns Gaza at Risk From Winter Elements

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A senior U.N. official said this past week that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza made homeless by Israel’s invasion nine months ago face a cold and rainy winter unless Israel allows building supplies in.
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  • robidog
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    • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571491401847518.html

      The good life on the West Bank

      Wandering around downtown Nablus the shops and restaurants I saw were full. There were plenty of expensive cars on the streets. Indeed I counted considerably more BMWs and Mercedes than I've seen, for example, in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.

      ... The shops and restaurants were also full when I visited Hebron recently, and I was surprised to see villas comparable in size to those on the Cote d'Azur or Bel Air had sprung up on the hills around the city. Life is even better in Ramallah, where it is difficult to get a table in a good restaurant. New apartment buildings, banks, brokerage firms, luxury car dealerships and health clubs are to be seen. In Qalqilya, another West Bank city that was previously a hotbed of terrorists and bomb-makers, the first ever strawberry crop is being harvested in time to cash in on the lucrative Christmas markets in Europe. Local Palestinian farmers have been trained by Israeli agriculture experts and Israel supplied them with irrigation equipment and pesticides.

      A new Palestinian city, Ruwabi, is to be built soon north of Ramallah. Last month, the Jewish National Fund, an Israeli charity, helped plant 3,000 tree seedlings for a forested area the Palestinian planners say they would like to develop on the edge of the new city. Israeli experts are also helping the Palestinians plan public parks and other civic amenities.

      ...In June, the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl related how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had told him why he had turned down Ehud Olmert's offer last year to create a Palestinian state on 97% of the West Bank (with 3% of pre-1967 Israeli land being added to make up the shortfall). ‘In the West Bank we have a good reality,’ Abbas told Diehl. ‘The people are living a normal life,’ he added in a rare moment of candor to a Western journalist.

      Nablus stock exchange head Ahmad Aweidah went further in explaining to me why there is no rush to declare statehood, saying ordinary Palestinians need the IDF to help protect them from Hamas, as their own security forces aren't ready to do so by themselves yet.

      The truth is that an independent Palestine is now quietly being built, with Israeli assistance.

    • 2 years ago
  • robidog
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  • Bren589
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    • Israel stops everything from going into Gaza. They always have. So many suffer due to the actions that Irael take upon themselves. .@ Freecrack If Israel is such a good place then why are they letting their own people suffer by not supplying housing for the ones living in tents.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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    • I didnt mean for it to sound like I was calling you a liar. For that I am sorry.

      I cant believe that those folks are stuck in tents and no one is helping them. Cant the Israeli GOV help them?

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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    • Ihatethemall:

      ironically yes
      by building more settlements
      if the situation wasnt so dyre it would be funny
      damned if ya do damned if ya dont
      the part that i dont get though is the southern half of israel is desolate palastinians and jews have more than enough land to coexist on but still refuse

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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    • its beneath you to call me a liar you know thats not what i do.
      truth is the majority of displaced jews from gaza have now found homes but they went a couple of years homeless because israel felt it was more important to give the palastinians gaza right away (in 2005) instead of waiting until they had a plan for relocation. despite that just as the palastinians do the settler jews do not relent and still hundreds remain homeless.
      do palastinians deny israel supplies? they used to but israels answer was to build walls, better a solution that suicide bombings.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • actually the entire basis for this story makes no sense. it implies that israel took these peoples homes from them so these homes are under israeli juristiction not palastinians and because the palastinians dont have these homes why would israel bear the responsiblity for providing supplies to palastinians they have fatah for that.
      either they want to live in israel and get the benefit of israels infrasctructure or they dont. how can they refuse to live peacefully with israel and complain that israel isnt taking care of them.
      the story if it was acurate at all should be that west bank refugees face brutal weather and fatah has done nothing about it for 9 months

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • freecrack:

      the story if it was acurate at all should be that west bank refugees face brutal weather and fatah has done nothing about it for 9 months......that should at the very least be pointed out.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  

    • Are the palastinians somehow keeping shipments of building materials fom getting into israel?

      Is that why the "hundreds of jews forcably removed from gaza in 2005 (to give it to palastinians) also live under tents and suffer the same effects of the regional climates." are still living in tents today?

      Somehow I doubt it

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • and the people of sderot who had thier roofs blown off by rocket fire face the same weather concerns.
      the hundreds of jews forcably removed from gaza in 2005 (to give it to palastinians) also live under tents and suffer the same effects of the regional climates.
      just keep telling half the story to fit into that good guy bad guy framework from the comic books.

    • 2 years ago
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