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April 17, 2008
Move 'em out of Gaza
(IsraelNN.com) Eighty percent of the residents of Gaza find it difficult to cope with the situation there and are considering emigration, a survey by the Gaza-based Institute of Development Studies has found. Gazans are finding it progressively more difficult to deal with the economic situation there, according to the institute, and 44 percent said explicitly that they want to leave Gaza.
The findings of a Near East Consulting poll released Tuesday showed that some 94 percent of Gaza residents believe their economic situation under Hamas rule is significantly worse than it was before the terrorist organization took over the region. Hamas ousted the rival Fatah faction in what amounted to a civil war. Now Hamas controls Gaza; Fatah controls the PA areas of Judea and Samaria. In elections before the military coup a majority of the Arabs who live in those areas voted for Hamas.
The survey, which polled 900 Gaza residents, found that 64 percents of respondents live under the poverty line. More than two out of every five, (41 percent) said they would leave Gaza immediately if they could. Half of those polled feel less security since Hamas took over the region in June 2007 and 18 percent feel no change in the level of security. Some 32 percent said they feel more security since Hamas took control of Gaza.
There are less than 5 milliion arabs registered as refugees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA’s sole purpose is to help the "palestinian refugees." Its regular cash and in-kind budget for 2007 is $505 million dollars, but no matter what the budget, its never enough. Every year, UNRWA launches repeated emergency appeals for emergency food, employment and cash assistance, in 2007 UNRWA was begging for an additional $246 million to cover emergency needs, yes, $246 million dollars above and beyond its $505 million dollar budget.
Over $700 million dollars was spent by UNRWA in 2007 alone, to keep 5 million arabs living in what is claimed to be sub-human conditions, in poverty and starvation. Over seven hundred million dollars in cash money, and that's without factoring in millions in aid sent directly to the Palestinian Authority in cold cash, food, medicine, and of course, weapons.
Seven hundred million dollars in one year, to support five million people living in poverty. Think about how much money has been spent by UNWRA over time, or even in just the past 10 years.
Why not give each and every so-called refugee arab the money to move to the islamic country of their choice, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, England, France, Indonesia, where they would be free to live their lives amongst their people, under the islamic laws they so desire? Why not put an end to the insanity of the "palestinian refugee" problem once and for all?
Why is the world at large so opposed to the dismantling of the camps and giving them the freedom to choose their own destiny, to make a life for themselves?
By its own admission, UNRWA "is by far the largest United Nations operation in the Middle East." It employs some "24,324 staff, of whom more than 99 per cent are locally-recruited Palestinians, almost all of them Palestine refugees." UNRWA's international staff posts and senior staff posts are paid for by the UN, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and yet...
Staff costs account for two-thirds of the Agency's regular budget.
Think about that for a minute. According to the UNRWA website, international and senior staff are paid by other organizations. That means that two-thirds of the budget, two-thirds of $505 million dollars, is spent on staff costs, staff that consists of 24,324 palestinians. Oh how I would love to go over their checkbooks.
All that money spent all these years past, we are talking about billions and billions of donated dollars, and these arabs are no better off. Why? They are pawns in a much bigger game, big business, UN business. If the camps were dismantled and the people absorbed into other arab countries, as they should have been right from the beginning, the UN would have nothing to talk about at their meetings, no resolutions to pass, no one to condemn, nothing to do whatsoever.
That is one reason why the palestinians are forced into "refugee" camps by the UN and kept there for decades, and the other reason is, the destruction of Israel.
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." -- PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977
All that money is spent, year after year, decade after decade, supposedly to support a fictional people who do not exist except as pawns to be used by others to destroy the State of Israel, money spent solely to support UNRWA officials and palestinian leaders, and to fight the existence of Israel.
All that money certainly isn't helping the "poor downtrodden palestinians," who obviously would prefer to get out of the game and get on with their lives.
There is only one way to help the palestinians:
They want it.
The problem is, the world doesn't pay any attention whatsoever to what the "palestinian people" want, and the world won't listen to them either, unless of course, they are complaining about the evil Jews in Israel. That's when the world listens.
Posted by LindaSoG at April 17, 2008 01:05 PM
Comments
You do realize, of course, that you're trying to apply logic to a situation to which it is explosively inapplicable. Here's the only form of logic that will work:
An asp, sensing the warmth and reliability of food near a farmer’s cabin, decided to make its den under the floor. One day the farmer’s baby son poked his hand into a hole in the stones and the viper, interrupted from its nap, struck him with a lethal bite.
The grieving farmer decided to kill the asp, but when he finally got his chance, he missed the head and lopped off only a part of the tail. Unsatisfied and realizing that the death of the snake wouldn’t bring back his son, but having it around would always present a mortal danger, the farmer tried to make peace.
He left grains and bread and meat where the snake could easily find them. But the serpent hissed at him from its hole: “Never can there be peace between us. Every time I see you, I will feel the loss of my tail, and every time you see me, you will feel the loss of your son. One of us must die for peace to come.”
Posted by: ET at April 17, 2008 02:17 PM
Rav Benny Elon's Peace Initiative is the best solution there is and I back it 100%.
The two state solution will never be a reality and will only serve to perpetuate the violence.
Israel must remain a Jewish State.
the palestinians should go back to wherever they came from.
Posted by: Rene at April 17, 2008 03:47 PM
Linda, dear,
The arab money that perpetuates this insanity is indirectly coming from our gas tanks and the rest is to a large extent coming from the US funding of UN bullshit. I don't see true peace coming to this area in my lifetime, unless one side finally eradicates the other. The Jews would gladly live in peace on their small tract of land, but the arabs have congenital hatred for Israel that has festered for thousands of years.
Mostly it is pure jealousy and envy. The jews expose them for the animals they are by being the lone prosperous state in a sea of inhumanity and misery. The arabs treat their own (women and children) worse than we treat cattle. My dog gets more love and respect from me than an arab woman gets from her owner. Rather than try to emulate the jewish work ethic and success, the arabs are content to despise the jews because they are everything the arabs are not. It drives them to madness, but then, that is not a far trip.
Keep putting out the word.
Posted by: Elvis at April 17, 2008 04:01 PM
Get them out of there. They don't belong in Israel but the problem is, they don't belong anyplace.
Posted by: Stepperg at April 17, 2008 05:28 PM
Since logic both there and especially with the UN is as rare as oxygen on the moon, its application is as hopeless as ET's analogy depicts. The UN, as in undone and unaccomplished, doomed itself years ago. To expect a washed up *organization* such as the UN, to help a beaten group of Nationals is beyond preposterous.
Posted by: Paul at April 17, 2008 07:08 PM
Can we have our money back? We need to get the pale's a hobby, something to divert their attention from killing. Like, man "made global warming" which seems to work really well here in the United States. Home to the dumbest people on the globe. On a serious note, I would back,fight, protect Israel like I would my own country.
Posted by: Ozaob at April 17, 2008 07:13 PM
I pray that the Israeli people will finally get rid of Olmert and replace him with someone who will finally do something to solve this problem and protect us.
Posted by: Chana at April 17, 2008 10:37 PM
I don't want a refund, I want the money used to get them out of where they clearly do not want to be. The pali's themselves, liken it to being in prison, yet it is a prison that they created in collusion with the UN!
The United Nations is nothing more than a sham, proven over and over again. It is beyond my understanding as to why they are allowed to meddle in anything having to do with Israel, or the US for that matter.
Israel belongs to the Israelis!
No amount of subterfuge and United Nations machinations will ever change that.
I stand with Israel!
Posted by: Melissa In Texas at April 17, 2008 10:57 PM
For years Linda, I have always said "something is wrong with this picture." For the last 25 that I've really been keeping updated on the "peace talks" the more I learned there is no such thing! It's bulls**t. The Pali's were force fed the b.s. from aholes like Arafat and backed up by the rest of the Jew hating a-rab world. And the most recent was the admission, finaly, by Ackmina-nut-job, plainly saying what "peace" is: wiping Israel off the map.
Well screw you a-rabs and all you other allies to them. Israel is there to stay. They could wipe you all at their appointed time but need a leader with the balls to do it.
The last line really says it well:
The problem is, the world doesn't pay any attention whatsoever to what the "palestinian people" want, and the world won't listen to them either, unless of course, they are complaining about the evil Jews in Israel. That's when the world listens.
Given the patience and tenacity of Israel, the *world* will finally accept that enough IS enough.
Posted by: auspatritoman at April 18, 2008 12:46 AM
Use this years funds and send over the moving vans. Once those who want to leave have cleared out, Israel and Hamas can get to the task at hand, as ET has alluded to.
Posted by: raz0r at April 18, 2008 09:28 AM
Carter's Harafat for Humanity should send'm peanuts.
Posted by: oy vey ole' at April 18, 2008 11:50 AM