Speaking of a world without Zionism, ever wonder what it would look like?
Here's how it worked.....
Jews build greenhouses doing the work....
Israel announces it will leave Gaza ...then....
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.
The Times said Mortimer B. Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News and a real estate tycoon, last week got a request from former World Bank head James D. Wolfensohn to raise money in order to save the greenhouses. Zuckerman sent out word to Jewish organisations in the United States for help.
Within 48 hours, he received $14 million. Wolfensohn, who contributed $500,000 of his own, is the international envoy to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.
He represents the sponsors of the so-called road map for Mideast peace — the United States, the European Union, Russia and the UN.
The Gaza pullout is part of the quartet’s peace plan.
The private fundraising efforts to buy the greenhouses spread quickly and got US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s support.
She called donors and thanked them for helping the peace process in the Middle East, The Times said.
and then...............POOF no zionism
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