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November 06, 2007
The Tide is High
In Hamastan, next up... a tsunami of waste:
UMM AL NASSER, Gaza, Oct. 30 — Fahmi al-Abrak, 70, was at home on March 27 when a lagoon of human waste broke through its sand embankment and hurtled downhill, inundating this poor village of Bedouins in northern Gaza. “It rose to here in 15 seconds,” he said, pointing to a discolored line on the walls, four feet above ground.
Five people died, drowned in the wave of waste, along with scores of goats, sheep and chickens. Nearly 1,000 people had to be taken out of the village. Now, Mr. Abrak said, “I’m afraid to go to sleep at night.”
and now... they expect it to happen again:
That lake, which itself holds sewage overflow, now contains almost four million cubic yards of water and human waste, covering about 100 acres, and it is again creeping close to the danger point. Its sand embankment was reinforced this summer, and two more outlet ponds have been dug in the sand. But more waste enters daily than is discharged, the lake is only six feet below the embankment and the winter rains are coming.
The fault of course lies with Israel:
Israel has declared Gaza “hostile territory” and is sharply limiting the kinds of goods allowed in.
The restrictions cover many ordinary items not considered essential to human life. But they also cover things like metal pipes, welding machines and the wire used to refurbish electric motors — things that Israel believes could have secondary use by the Hamas administration and the Palestinian gunmen who fire rockets toward nearby Israeli towns like Sderot.
Of course, its the fault of that damn Israeli government, always trying to keep its citizens from being slaughtered in the streets by arabs. Truly, what is so hostile about a people whose single goal is to kill others, to blow up schools and pizzarias and busses? What is so hostile about busting into homes in the middle of the night and shooting children as they lie asleep in their beds? Those damn Israelis! How dare they object to the building of pipe bombs and rocket launchers, how dare they object to rockets raining down on civilian communities, schools, homes? How dare they deny the palestinians the materials and the ways and means to kill?
Its all the fault of the Jews! or... is it?
... the level of the lake was one problem, and the rain’s effect on the sand embankment was another.
... the pumps have been moved to the teeming city of Khan Yunis, where another sewage disaster is threatening. Trying to save money, residents there hooked their sewer pipes to a system to catch rainwater and have filled it with waste, creating a sludge that blocks drainage. With the coming rains, that system threatens to overflow, forcing sewage back into homes and businesses and polluting the aquifer and the wells that supply most drinking water.
A Japanese project for repairs at Khan Yunis was suspended when Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006.
Even before this latest crisis, a World Bank project to replace the northern facility and drain the lake into nine new treatment ponds was delayed for nearly two years. The area had suffered from warfare with Israel, internal Palestinian clashes, strikes by workers and other problems.
But here's the real reason that Gaza was flooded with human waste:
The lagoon broke in March, he said, “because there is no security there and people were stealing the sand.”
"A tsumani of waste" is perhaps the perfect metaphor for the palestinian people, who have brought their "suffering" upon themselves, by their own actions. They create nothing, and destroy everything they get their hands on. They have sacrificed everything they have and everything they might ever have In the pursuit of their goal to kill the Jews. Let them reap what they have sown, they'll get no sympathy from me, not when the simple solution is to stop shooting rockets, stop bombing innocent people, stop the murder and mayhem and chaos and destruction.
If they stopped sending their children into Israel with bombs strapped around their waist, well, maybe the checkpoints would be eased, maybe they could enter Israel proper and get jobs, and be a part of humanity. If they stopped raining rockets down on civilians, if they stopped building rockets and rocket launchers, maybe then they would get materials to build their cities. If they would teach their children to read and write, to think instead of to kill and maim and destroy, maybe they could arise from the pool of shit they wallow in and become part of the human race. But no, palestinians have their priorities and if the end result is that they wallow in shit because of their own actions, well, its only just and right.
I prefer to think of it a plague upon them.
Water utility official Mr. Shoblak put it differently. “How many Palestinians need to drown?” he asked.
And here's where I'll shut up.
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UPDATE: Its Israel to the rescue, once again.
Posted by LindaSoG at November 6, 2007 06:25 AM
Comments
UNWRA, UNWRA, more UNWRA, they are in a world of shit. Bwahahaha
Posted by: Jack at November 6, 2007 08:19 AM
Jack............That was insensitive. I'm surprised at you. Right.
What bemuses me is that some friggin dish towel dudes think it's smart and profitable to steal sand.
In the Desert! From a waste water levy! Where they Friggin live!
I guess the madrassa doesn't have a course in elementary logic.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap...
Paul knew what he was talking about.
Wollf
Posted by: howlsatmoon at November 6, 2007 02:41 PM
“How many Palestinians need to drown?”
As many (unfortunately) have to until you decide to reform the systemic hatred that has corrupted your culture and prevented you from harmoniously engaging with the rest of the civilized world.
Posted by: Vince at November 6, 2007 02:59 PM
Hmm, Palestinians drowning in their own crap because of their own stupidity... CODE RED!! CODE RED!! More bleach for the gene pool, STAT!
Posted by: ProphetJoe at November 6, 2007 11:27 PM