RAFAH, May 7 (IPS) - Jihad el-Shaar is pleased with his mud-brick house in the Moraj district of Gaza. The 80-square metre home is a basic one-storey, two-bedroom design, with a small kitchen, bathroom and sitting room, made mostly with mud and straw.
"My wife and our four daughters and I were living with family, but it was overcrowded, impossible. We knew we had to build a home of our own," Shaar said. "We waited over two years for cement but because of the siege there is none available. What could we do, wait forever?"
So he decided to do it with mud.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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Vza,
ReplyDeleteI can understand what it is you are trying to say. But we used to have houses. Now we are not permitted to have them and we are not permitted to buy the buildings materials that we need. These people are getting forced to build a home out of mudd not to be friendly with the enviroment. The only reason why we are poor is not because "fate" decided to make us that way,,,,, Gazza is filled with professionals all every time that make Good money when they are allowed to work.
Nobody in Palestine will look at these mudd houses with happiness or pride, when I read this I felt sick to my stomach.
The Israelis want to take us back thousands of years and the Arabs are helping them do that.
Again this is not an attack against you, I understand how you as an American have a perspective that is entirely different.
But you had a hurricane in New Orleaans??? Imagine that the White President durring those years said that there can be no more cement or materials to rebuild the homes there. And imagine all those black people would have to build a home made of mudd.
Do you think you can read that news and say "those people should be proud those poor families can make a cozy home" ??????
I dont want to make you feel "attacked" all I am doing is trying to make you see why your comment can sound very,,,, rude.
Saif, didn't you know vza lives in a mud hut? Next, she will tell you the wonders of breeding super horses.
ReplyDeleteGo build a mud hut vza
ReplyDelete"Oh I see. The only acceptable response to this interesting story was to recoil in horror and make a comment about the dastardly Israelis and leave it at that? "
ReplyDeleteNo your natural response was interesting to read, but it was not my natural response and I dont think it was the natural response of many Palestinians who might see themselves in similar situations to one day where they will have to raise there families in a mud hut. I dont want to insult you for not being able to understand why I was suprised by your reaction. It is what it is.
Awww, you forgot the ubiquitous, LOL!
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ReplyDeleteThat (LOL) is in reference to the ubiquitous remark from an anonymous ass about such a banal subject, which seems to be the only mantra this mindless one can muster...LOL
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