Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Palestinian economy isn’t recovering thanks to Israel, but in spite of it

Haaretz
4 August 2009
Although the Shin Bet security services and the Israel Defense Forces agreed to ease pressure on the population, most of the internal checkpoints that Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered removed at the request of U.S. President Barack Obama administration, had already been slated for removal by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in response to pressure from former U.S. president George W. Bush.

24 comments:

  1. Posted this link here: http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/08/hamas-pretends.php
    Some of the commentators think Israeli policies are <span style="text-decoration: underline;">encouraging</span> economic development in the West Bank.

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  2. Tell those at the site I will send them bullet lead for their diets, and lets see if they can survive eating that

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  3. It's a game these pricks play . The last thing on their mind will be something to facilitate their life . Remember Palestinians aren't human !!!

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  4. Want proof they think this (that Palestinians are not human)?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2IXVcZoIic

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  5. This is only what they dare to say...what they think is far greater in horror..

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  6. VAA, maybe I misunderstood you. Do you oppose violent attacks against the GoI and IA (Iraqi Army)?

    Here is more info on what will soon be the biggest baddest toughest and most kick ass army in Arab history:
    http://home.comcast.net/~djyae/site/?/blog/
    Go Iraq!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    It is too bad that many don't get that the Iraqis could be a huge asset to Palestinians. A tough Iraqi Army is good for Palestine. Many staunchly pro IA Iraqis are also quite pro Palestinian. A regular at the montrose toast blog is "Al Maleki." He is very pro Palestinian; and wants Iraq to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on its army, and later use that army to help the Palestinians. VAA, I think you would like him. I think you would like many of the lions who serve in the IA. Give them a chance.

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  7. Here is more info on what will soon be the biggest baddest toughest and most kick ass army in Arab history:
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    anand what is it with this militarist goosestepping?? It's ridiculous beyond belief!! Looks like you're in adoration of some half-gods!!!

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  8. For most of us on this blog, militarism is REPULSIVE!!! REPULSIVE!!

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  9. Apparently Anand has never seen nor experienced any "big bad kick ass" army actions.  Just like he knows nothing about most of the other subjects he posts, it is all fantasy. He has not heard men, women and children scream as their bodies are torn apart, nor seen first hand severed limbs of babies. To him it is like a movie, all glorious...like the brave men of the Green Beret or some other horse shit. Perhaps he is like the king of Jordan who plays his video games -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdfeS2CgBUI

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  10. Thanks for the proof v
    tgia . At least this is what they admit :
    Animals Like the discovery channel.All of Ramallah is a jungle they are monkeys,Dogs,Gorillas
    The problem is that the animals are locked,they can't come out What  ? We're humans. They're animals

    It'll be nice to see his reaction when he discovers the reverse .

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  11. I'm just wondering what is it with the " Iraqi Army LIONS"!! Why lions???

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  12. <span style="">VAA, maybe I misunderstood you. anand</span>

    Please spare me this nonsense. Although I've served in the army used weapons and possibly unintentionally killed , I'm very very anti violence and nothing repulses me more than people with obsession of military kill tools and F8000000 or whatever F fuck it is. Something very dear to your heart ( Lions ,Kick teeth ,kick arse ) . Furthermore I have special dislike to religious freaks of all kinds. Another obsession of yours.

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  13. the above transcript is of the Youtube clip posted by v 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdfeS2CgBUI

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  14. <span style="">I'm just wondering what is it with the " Iraqi Army LIONS"!! Why lions??? TGIA</span>
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    I've wondered too, but can you help with the GO thing.
    It reminds me of Oliver when he was 6 or 7 Y.O ( My son )when he used to watch sport on TV.

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  15. I'm also wondering if Anand can formulate a sentence without any of the following "GO , LIONS , TAKFIRI,SUNNI, and kind and numbers of planes each country has.". >:o

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  16. TGIA, I accept that you are a pacifist; but many others on this blog are not.

    I remember when Yasmin said that Hamas should not have rocketed Israel, thereby starting the recent Gaza war; that she was viciously attacked and even called a zionist!

    There are many who support violence to advance their own aims on the left. More so on the left, than on the right, based on what I can observe.

    True pacifists; Gandhians are rare. Gandhi's central point was nonviolence in thought was more important than nonviolence in actions. It was very important in nonviolent resistance to love the enemy or oppresser with all your heart and soul.

    Gandhi said that police should disarm themselves, and not violently stop a rape or murder in progress. Rather they should practice Sathya Graha . . . fill their heart with love for the oppresser and the victim alike . . . and inspire the oppresser to stop harming the victim by the power of their own example.

    Jesus tought to love they enemy. This is also the teaching of the great world religions. In the ancient stories from Hinduism and Buddhism; the great warrior heroes are renown for loving and respecting the wariors they fought.

    You might know that in Hinduism/Buddhism/Sikhism/Toaism/Jainism there is no concept of pure evil or pure hell. There is good and love in everything without exception.

    Should the Iraqi Army love and respect the enemy they fight, yes they should. But does that mean that they shouldn't defend their country?

    VAA, do you agree with Gandhi?

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  17. .I'm not militaristic but not pacifist either in the sense that I support armed resistance to occupation.
    .Hamas didn't start the war. This is beyond ridiculous. You choke me to death, you forbid me food and water and every possible movement but if I move a finger you consider it an attack on yourself??? Wake up anand! Totten's blog is obviously having a negative influence on you... To your discharge, Israeli bag of tricks works wonder on many, not only you!!

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  18. I saw a youtube clip of settler's thuggish children screaming at a passing Palestinian woman "Amalek Amalek"..Now if you know what the Amaleks of the Bible are you'll understand the magnitude of the embeded hatred within their religious upbringing..Amaleks are not human and should be destroyed..

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  19. I am surprised. If you support armed resistance to occuption, then you are a militarist. Isn't the Iraqi Army involved in armed resistance to Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis, Egyptians, and their Iraqi collaboraters?

    Aren't Afghans involved in armed resistance to their Talaban occupiers? {Afghans usually associate the Taliban with Pakistan, which is one reason 91% have a negative view of the Taliban based on the 2.09.09 public opinion poll. 91% also had a negative view of Pakistan.}

    Why are you complaining about me supporting the Iraqi Army and Afghan Army when you just said you support Hamas' army?

    TGIA, whether Hamas was right to fight a war with Israel last year is one matter. That Hamas did attack Israel is another. Hamas decided to go to war with Israel for many reasons.  Maybe these reasons were legitimate. Under international law sovereign states can go to war to lift blockades.

    This will sound militarist and hurt many people, but this is what I think:
    -Hamas thought that Hezbollah defeated the IDF in 2006 (when the reality isn't that clear cut)
    -Hamas promoted a lot of information operations alleging that the IDF were incompetent fighters and cowardly; too many Hamas leaders began to believe their own information operations
    -Hamas genuinely thought that their fighters were better quality than they actually were; and that Hamas' fighters could take on the IDF "the way Hezbollah did."
    -Hamas' strategy was to provoke the IDF into invading Gaza with their rocket attacks. Then cut off the Israeli army and kill it.
    -Decisively defeating the IDF would provide Hamas leverage to lift the sanctions, and to use in final status negotiations with Israel.

    When the IDF did enter Gaza, this strategy proved more difficult to execute than Hamas' political leaders anticipated. Therefore the war did not increase Hamas' leverage in the way they anticipated it would. The war was a mistake from Hamas' perspective, because Hamas overestimated the capabilities of their fighters, and underestimated the IDF.

    I told you that you wouldn't like my analysis. Hamas rocketing Israel with hundreds of rockets was a declaration of war between states. {Hamas can legally argue that Israel and Egypt were illegally imposing sanctions on Gaza by land and sea, thereby making Hamas' military actions necessary and legal.}

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    <div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px;">Amaleks are not human and should be destroyed..TGIA</div>
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    <div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px;">Were they not the Jewish eternal enemy , they had 300 years to recognise that God had given the Land to Israel, they were mighty and powerful until Moses invited by God to wipe them out which they did very savagely . They became the existential eternal threat.</div>
    <div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px;">Samuel 15:3</div>
    <div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px;">"Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."</div>
    <div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px;">"BY GOD"</div>
    <div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px;">Now what is the relationship between the the Palestinians and the F.. Amalek. ?</div>
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  21. Amaleks are not human and should be destroyed..TGIA 
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    Were they not the Jewish eternal enemy , they had 300 years to recognise that God had given the Land to Israel, they were mighty and powerful until Moses invited by God to wipe them out which they he did very savagely . They became the existential eternal threat. 
    Samuel 15:3  
    "Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
    "BY Mr. GOD"  
    Now what is the relationship between the the Palestinians and the F.. Amalek. ?

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  22. If God the Merciful was as portrayed to be , how could he utter such words.?? 

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  23. Who said that god has to be good and merciful? Not necessarily...He can be but no obligation..He can do whatever he pleases...
    As for the god of the old Testament , he was best described by Richard Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion"...He's no Mother Theresa my friend, but a combination of Hitler, Stalin , a'mmo Abu Dummar and Yishai Kohen! A monster of biblical proportions!!

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