Israel lets Gaza export Valentine's Day flowers
Thu Feb 12, 10:26 am ET
KEREM SHALOM, Israel – Israel is relaxing its blockade of the Gaza Strip to let through 25,000 carnations headed to Europe for Valentine's Day.
But the head of the Gaza flower growers' association said that was "nothing" compared to the 40 million flowers a year that came out of the territory before the blockade.
The flowers will be Gaza's first exports in a year. Israel has blockaded Gaza since Hamas militants seized control of the territory in June 2007.
Israeli military spokesman Maj. Peter Lerner said Israel agreed to let the flowers through at the request of the Dutch government and Gaza farmers.
Lerner called the move an Israeli gesture and said it did not indicate any change in the overall policy toward Gaza.
But Mohammed Khalil, head of the Gaza flower growers' association, dismissed the move as "nothing."
Khalil said Gaza used to export 40 million flowers a year, so 25,000 carnations is insignificant.
"We had to feed the flowers to the animals because we couldn't export them," he said. "We are afraid of losing our reputation in Europe and are afraid to plan ahead."
Here's an idea....stop sending rockets and suicide bombers to Israel and I'm pretty sure the Israelis will have no objection to you exporting even 80 million flowers.
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
The "blockade" is just an excuse
Gaza battle stretches into night despite truce calls
By Nidal al-Mughrabi Nidal Al-mughrabi – 1 hr 20 mins ago
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days.
Israel made clear its priority was to secure the safety of its citizens, while Hamas called for a lifting of the blockade of the enclave, crammed with 1.5 million people whose lives are growing ever more squalid. Many lack food, water or power.
1. So what was Hamas's reason for bombing Israeli civilians before the "blockade"? The alleged blockade is just the excuse of the day.
2. Q+A: Egypt in tight spot enforcing blockade of Gaza
Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:15pm GMT
By Jonathan Wright CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 208 people on Saturday, have raised the stakes for Egypt in maintaining a blockade on the territory in spite of strong opposition from the Egyptian...";
Why doesn't Hamas bomb Egyptian civilians if the "blockade" is the reason? Obviously it must something something like the fact that Hamas want to destroy the Jewish people as their charter states.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi Nidal Al-mughrabi – 1 hr 20 mins ago
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days.
Israel made clear its priority was to secure the safety of its citizens, while Hamas called for a lifting of the blockade of the enclave, crammed with 1.5 million people whose lives are growing ever more squalid. Many lack food, water or power.
1. So what was Hamas's reason for bombing Israeli civilians before the "blockade"? The alleged blockade is just the excuse of the day.
2. Q+A: Egypt in tight spot enforcing blockade of Gaza
Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:15pm GMT
By Jonathan Wright CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 208 people on Saturday, have raised the stakes for Egypt in maintaining a blockade on the territory in spite of strong opposition from the Egyptian...";
Why doesn't Hamas bomb Egyptian civilians if the "blockade" is the reason? Obviously it must something something like the fact that Hamas want to destroy the Jewish people as their charter states.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
B'Rov Am Hadras Melech
Tonight in Elizabeth, NJ 4 synagogues came together to daven Mincha/Maariv and say Tehilim for the safety and success of the IDF. Three synagogues, Elmora Hills Minyan, Bris Avraham Center and Adath Israel moved their Mincha/Maariv davening to the J.E.C. (Jewish Education Center). We came together as one and recited Tehilim led by Rabbis Herman, Schwartz and Kinelsky. Following the Tehilim, Rabbi Herman recited the prayer for the IDF.
AP just being AP
I was looking at Yahoo News today for updates about Israel and noticed a pattern in the the majority of stories from AP. People have seen this before but it's ususally been over time. Thinking people scratch their heads and say to themselves, "Wow the AP stories written lately have been decidedly anti-Israel." Today is different because they all appear on one page.
Fighting in dense Gaza brings child casualties AP - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Samar Hamdan ran weeping through the street, trying to touch the body of her dead 11-year-old brother during a funeral procession in this northern Gaza town.
Rockets are again at the heart of a Mideast war AP - Thu Jan 1, 3:09 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - Most of the Hamas rockets targeted at Israel are rudimentary, cobbled together in small metal shops in densely populated Gaza. (color highlighted empahsis is mine)
Israel targets Gaza mosques used by Hamas AP - Thu Jan 1, 2:34 AM ET
JERUSALEM - Mosques and Muslim prayer halls have not escaped the relentless bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza by Israel, which claims the Islamic militants misuse some of the holy sites as weapons depots and command centers.
UN: Gaza faces 'alarming' humanitarian situation AP - Thu Jan 1, 2:32 AM ETUNITED NATIONS - Gaza's 1.5 million residents are facing an "alarming" humanitarian situation under constant Israeli bombardment, with the main power plant shut down, overcrowded hospitals struggling to cope and very limited food supplies, U.N. officials said.
Gaza's tunnel economy collapses in bombing raids AP - Wed Dec 31, 5:11 PM ET
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Gaza Strip has lost its last lifeline after five days of Israeli bombing raids that destroyed dozens of smuggling tunnels under the sandy border with Egypt.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Elder of Ziyon: The rocket calendars
Just in case you thought Hamas was true to their word of keeping the ceasefire here's a list of rocket fire eminating from Gaza before, during and after the truce.
Hamas showin' the love
Hamas, according to the Palpress News Agency, fired on Egyptian soldiers at the border preventing wounded Gazans from getting medical attention.
Hatip to ElderofZiyon
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Newsflash: Israel already left Gaza
Protesters demonstrate against the Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Sanaa, December 28, 2008.(Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
Am I missing something?
US soldiers stand guard at the site of a suicide bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. A suicide bomber on a bicycle targeted a protest condemning Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one civilian and wounding 16 on Sunday, police said.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed)
To protest Israeli bombing civilians (as is falsely alleged) someone bombs other civilians. Huh????
Bomb shelters
An Israeli child lies in her bed in a bomb shelter at the Ashkelon Barzilai hospital in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. The largest hospital on Israel's southern coast has gone underground. Wary of a missile strike against it from the nearby Gaza Strip, Barzilai Hospital has moved its most essential departments into an underground bomb shelter.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
If Hamas were that fearful of Israeli bomb attacks and are advocating for their own people wouldn't they invest in bomb shelters and the like to protect their people from the "mean Israelis"?
Monday, August 11, 2008
Is this just another propaganda piece as well?
Gazans line up outside banks as cash runs out
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer Mon Aug 11, 4:25 PM ET
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory.
Why is there more than enough money to make millionaires - literally millionaires - in the tunnelling business? What happened to the crushing gas shortage? Yet there aren't enough shekels in circulation to feed the average Arab living in Gaza. Silly question. Gaza (and Yehuda and Shomron) is run by a bunch a greedy, intransigent, blood thirsty, death-cult loving Arabs who care more about themselves and their movement than the average Arab on the street. Let the average person live in squalor, feed them an all-encompassing dose of death culture, and produce propaganda to lie, obfuscate and block the organizations and countries (Israel) that want to help them.
What happened to the crushing gas shortage? We saw cars parked in the street. Idle ambulances because they lacked gasoline. There was untold mayhem and suffering just a short while ago because the Arabs in Gaza (and thanks to the AP and other jaundiced media outlets). Oy! What will be? People were dying because there wasn't enough petrol to run the electric plants and the plastered pictures of people getting dialysis who might be in jeopardy because Israel didn't send enough gas. That was one big goose egg. A good propaganda piece by those in charge of Gaza and helped by their co-conspirators - the AP and the other new media.
Is this just another propaganda piece as well?
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer Mon Aug 11, 4:25 PM ET
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory.
Why is there more than enough money to make millionaires - literally millionaires - in the tunnelling business? What happened to the crushing gas shortage? Yet there aren't enough shekels in circulation to feed the average Arab living in Gaza. Silly question. Gaza (and Yehuda and Shomron) is run by a bunch a greedy, intransigent, blood thirsty, death-cult loving Arabs who care more about themselves and their movement than the average Arab on the street. Let the average person live in squalor, feed them an all-encompassing dose of death culture, and produce propaganda to lie, obfuscate and block the organizations and countries (Israel) that want to help them.
What happened to the crushing gas shortage? We saw cars parked in the street. Idle ambulances because they lacked gasoline. There was untold mayhem and suffering just a short while ago because the Arabs in Gaza (and thanks to the AP and other jaundiced media outlets). Oy! What will be? People were dying because there wasn't enough petrol to run the electric plants and the plastered pictures of people getting dialysis who might be in jeopardy because Israel didn't send enough gas. That was one big goose egg. A good propaganda piece by those in charge of Gaza and helped by their co-conspirators - the AP and the other new media.
Is this just another propaganda piece as well?
Monday, April 14, 2008
You sell gasoline, you die.
By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Gaza Strip's four main universities shut down Monday after officials said students couldn't get to class because of critical fuel shortages.
University officials said attendance rates were down by at least 60 percent Monday, prompting the closure. It affects more than 45,000 students and will last until Thursday.
Officials said they would put together an emergency education plan that could include conducting some lectures over the Internet and radio.
"This is a genuine crisis," said Ali al-Najjar, an official from Azhar University, which is affiliated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
Except Dia Hadid, the author parsed the statement by Ali al-Najjar. AT the end of the article the author quotes al-Najjar as saying, "This is a catastrophe, but a part of it is created here," al-Najjar said.
The Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is suffering crushing fuel shortages. Israel is Gaza's sole fuel provider, and in recent months, the Jewish state has reduced supplies to try to pressure Palestinian militants to halt their rocket fire into southern Israel.
Shortages were aggravated recently after Gaza fuel distributors stopped selling the reduced amounts that Israel was providing to protest the cutbacks. Israel then closed its only fuel transfer terminal last week after Palestinian gunmen attacked the site, killing two Israeli workers.
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Hamas has seized on the shortages to play up Palestinian suffering. Many Palestinians in Gaza complain that Hamas is hoarding supplies — something the Islamic militant group denies.
An Israeli security official said the crisis was Hamas "propaganda" and that Hamas could solve the problem by picking up fuel supplies lying idle at the depot. The same author employing the exessive hyperbole (the "OMG" or "Chicken Little brand of journalism")now states after saying the Gazans were "suffering crushing fuel shortgaes " then says it a Hamas hoax created by Hamas to nefariously use their own people as pawns. In fact, the fuel is waiting idle in supply depots because the gas station owners won't sell the gas. Mostly under the new Hamas law, "You sell gasoline, you die." I hear it's a very effective rule.
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Hamas has continued attacking Israeli forces along the border and firing rockets at Israeli towns, and allows Gaza's other militant factions to do the same.
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A trip from the southern town of Rafah to Gaza City — where universities are located — used to cost $1.70. The same trip now costs between $2.80 to $4. Most of Gaza's 1.4 million residents live on less than $2 a day.
This means the average Gazan who is the average student at a Gazan university spends 85% of their daily wage to travel one way to school. They're running a deficit. Maybe they should become US Senators.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Gaza Strip's four main universities shut down Monday after officials said students couldn't get to class because of critical fuel shortages.
University officials said attendance rates were down by at least 60 percent Monday, prompting the closure. It affects more than 45,000 students and will last until Thursday.
Officials said they would put together an emergency education plan that could include conducting some lectures over the Internet and radio.
"This is a genuine crisis," said Ali al-Najjar, an official from Azhar University, which is affiliated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
Except Dia Hadid, the author parsed the statement by Ali al-Najjar. AT the end of the article the author quotes al-Najjar as saying, "This is a catastrophe, but a part of it is created here," al-Najjar said.
The Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is suffering crushing fuel shortages. Israel is Gaza's sole fuel provider, and in recent months, the Jewish state has reduced supplies to try to pressure Palestinian militants to halt their rocket fire into southern Israel.
Shortages were aggravated recently after Gaza fuel distributors stopped selling the reduced amounts that Israel was providing to protest the cutbacks. Israel then closed its only fuel transfer terminal last week after Palestinian gunmen attacked the site, killing two Israeli workers.
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Hamas has seized on the shortages to play up Palestinian suffering. Many Palestinians in Gaza complain that Hamas is hoarding supplies — something the Islamic militant group denies.
An Israeli security official said the crisis was Hamas "propaganda" and that Hamas could solve the problem by picking up fuel supplies lying idle at the depot. The same author employing the exessive hyperbole (the "OMG" or "Chicken Little brand of journalism")now states after saying the Gazans were "suffering crushing fuel shortgaes " then says it a Hamas hoax created by Hamas to nefariously use their own people as pawns. In fact, the fuel is waiting idle in supply depots because the gas station owners won't sell the gas. Mostly under the new Hamas law, "You sell gasoline, you die." I hear it's a very effective rule.
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Hamas has continued attacking Israeli forces along the border and firing rockets at Israeli towns, and allows Gaza's other militant factions to do the same.
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A trip from the southern town of Rafah to Gaza City — where universities are located — used to cost $1.70. The same trip now costs between $2.80 to $4. Most of Gaza's 1.4 million residents live on less than $2 a day.
This means the average Gazan who is the average student at a Gazan university spends 85% of their daily wage to travel one way to school. They're running a deficit. Maybe they should become US Senators.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
animals calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
Donkeys with posters are seen during a protest with animals calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip March 11, 2008.REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)Camels with posters are seen during a protest with animals calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip March 11, 2008.REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)
My first response is "Nuff said".
My second response, last I checked only humans (even in name only) could think and protest. I don't think "Rover", or whatever one calls one's donkey or camel, could care less whether they are under blockade or not. Its like when Jay Leno shows dogs and cats wearing costumes. They just don't do this. Rover doen't wake up one morning and say, "I'm going to protest those mean Israelis for the blockade."
My third response is, maybe the donkey and the camel aren't protesting maybe its the paper and ink that are really protesting. Hummmm???
Some how I like my first response best.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Here pictures and videos of Gazan Arabs using people as human shields and Mosques as hiding places for RPG's and hand granades.
Someone defending Israel in an interview.
Here's David Horowitz, the Editor of the Jerusalem Post newspaper in a CNN interview strongly defending Israel. Wow! What a concept. Hey you Hasbara guys, you lame politicians, lame diplomats, and other assorted apologists - take note of how it's supposed to be done.
Lard not bombs
Rocket built by Moshe NissimporPhoto: Courtesy JPOST.COM STAFF AND REBECCA ANNA STOIL
Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.
Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile which he planned to launch from Ashkelon into the Gaza Strip.
Instead of loading the missle with with an explosive device that could kill people, he should have loaded a device that sprays pig lard over Gaza. Maybe Israel could load a drone that sprays pig lard. I wonder if the UN and the other terrorist appeasers would be satisfied with spraying pig lard.
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