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From Eye on the World:
- 8 Month Old Stoned
Let me state, yet again, I am a fan of disproportionate response. and screw the Useless Nitwits. from Israel National News: Baby Girl 'Moderately' Hurt in Arab Stoning Attack Tevet 1, 5769, 28 December 08 02:05by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com)...
- Antiunfalsifiabilitarianism
In my regular trawling of the blogosphere for anti-Israel arguments, I stumbled upon the blog Tikun Olam, belonging to Richard Silverstein. I could fill a post and a half with an account of the outrages I have read there; suffice it here to say that the...
- Proof We Are Winning The Great War On Terror
Reliapundit, the Astute Blogger says we are winning the War on Terror and here's an important piece of evidence. A Kuwaiti paper, Al-Watan, has published an editorial declaring that Hamas bears full responsibility for the recent invasion by Israel...
- Iaf Kills Plo Member Named Jamal Abu Samhadana
The successful slaying of Zarqawi by the USAF isn't the only air strike that's brought justice this week: even another terrorist, this one being the PLO's Jamal Abu Samhadana, was killed shortly ago by the Israeli Air Force: The Israel Air...
- Isn't It Strange?
Our friends the Palestinian Arabs are showing yet again how much they value their economy:Several greenhouses belonging to the former settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip were destroyed over the weekend during an attempt by dozens of gunmen to take control...
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Obama to give Gaza Arabs $200 mil to replace the Gush Katif greenhouses they demolished
From Eye on the World:
(INN) The U.S. will be giving Gaza Arabs a second chance, providing them with new greenhouses to replace the Gush Katif originals they demolished.
In 2005, as Israel withdrew its troops from Gaza and forcibly removed the Jewish residents of the area, a group of Jewish American donors came together to ensure that the famed Israeli greenhouses that produced $200 million of produce per year would not go to waste. The greenhouses were purchased for $14 million – much of it provided by the Gates Foundation - and turned over to Gaza Arabs.
But within hours of the withdrawal, many of the buildings had been damaged beyond repair. Terrorists and looters stripped them of their piping and electronic equipment and tore down their walls. Some greenhouses remained, several of which were destroyed in a second round of looting in 2006.
Now Gaza Arabs are going to get a second chance to try to recreate the thriving greenhouses of Gush Katif. The United States Agency for International Development is to sponsor a project termed Family Agricultural Greenhouses, which will construct three new greenhouses.
USAID hopes the three greenhouses will support 900 families in the Hamas-run Gaza region.
The project has approval from both the Palestinian Authority and the Israel Defense Forces. Israel is working with USAID to coordinate the transfer of goods into Gaza to complete the project.
Anita Tucker, a former resident of Gush Katif, doubts that the new plan will be successful. Tucker explained that while Gaza Arabs were at one point beginning to succeed in agriculture with help from their Jewish neighbors, the rise of the PA and later of Hamas created a situation in which rival terrorist groups battle for control at the expense of civilians, and ultimately destroy efforts to build local industry.
If the US and Israel want Gaza to succeed, the solution is to allow Jews to return to the area, she told Israel National News. “People have to learn to live next door to each other. That's what peace is all about... That's part of the atmosphere you need for this to succeed,” she said, adding that Jewish farmers were "happy to teach their Arab neighbors advanced agricultural techniques", and would be willing to do so again.
As long as the atmosphere in Gaza is one of hostility, the rivalry between local Arab groups will make any attempts to build a better future fruitless, she predicted.
- 8 Month Old Stoned
Let me state, yet again, I am a fan of disproportionate response. and screw the Useless Nitwits. from Israel National News: Baby Girl 'Moderately' Hurt in Arab Stoning Attack Tevet 1, 5769, 28 December 08 02:05by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com)...
- Antiunfalsifiabilitarianism
In my regular trawling of the blogosphere for anti-Israel arguments, I stumbled upon the blog Tikun Olam, belonging to Richard Silverstein. I could fill a post and a half with an account of the outrages I have read there; suffice it here to say that the...
- Proof We Are Winning The Great War On Terror
Reliapundit, the Astute Blogger says we are winning the War on Terror and here's an important piece of evidence. A Kuwaiti paper, Al-Watan, has published an editorial declaring that Hamas bears full responsibility for the recent invasion by Israel...
- Iaf Kills Plo Member Named Jamal Abu Samhadana
The successful slaying of Zarqawi by the USAF isn't the only air strike that's brought justice this week: even another terrorist, this one being the PLO's Jamal Abu Samhadana, was killed shortly ago by the Israeli Air Force: The Israel Air...
- Isn't It Strange?
Our friends the Palestinian Arabs are showing yet again how much they value their economy:Several greenhouses belonging to the former settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip were destroyed over the weekend during an attempt by dozens of gunmen to take control...