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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 11:43 AM
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Rattling the Cage: Living it up in Gaza
Don’t you just wish you lived in Gaza? Don’t you just envy those people who get to raise their kids amid such abundance? Look at all the stuff they’ve got:

“Truckloads of meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, milk powder, baby food, wheat and other staples arrive in Gaza on a daily basis,” said the Foreign Ministry in advance of the “Freedom Flotilla,” due to either reach Gaza or get intercepted by the navy today.

“Since the cease-fire in January 2009, well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel – that is almost a ton of aid for each man, woman and child in the Strip.”

A ton each! Somebody put those people on a diet! They get “most types of food,” said the IDF. Most types! Even pasta, ever since Sen. John Kerry went to Gaza last year and found that the IDF was banning pasta, and convinced army officials, softies that they are, to start letting it in.


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They’re terrorists, doesn’t everybody understand? They try to kill us and we never did anything to them. We got out of Gaza, remember? There’s no more occupation. Finished!

And now the Jew-haters are coming with their boats and their food and their medical aid – to make us look bad! That’s all they want to do. They don’t care about the people in Gaza. The people in Gaza don’t even care about the people in Gaza, about their own children. Only we do. Only Israel cares about those people. Look at all the things we do for them. And the world doesn’t appreciate it. Well, what do you expect?


http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=176618
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 12:33 PM
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1. Oh, look. Someone in Israel has an opinion. There's a shock.
Sounds like something I once heard from a South African denying the negatives of apartheid. HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE: the black South Africans weren't actively trying to kill the white ones.

I know, it's an insignificant difference to you, but it means so much to me.
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shaayecanaan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 09:12 PM
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2. white ones...
HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE: the black South Africans weren't actively trying to kill the white ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poqo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 02:48 PM
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5. Your ignorance is like a bottomless spring
You know nothing about the United States... you know nothing about Israel/Palestine, and you apparently know nothing about South Africa, either. So, what exactly do you know about? Whatever it is, maybe you should talk about that instead, even if it's something silly like potato sculpture.
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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:05 AM
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3. the last two sentences say it all
" I only wish somebody would treat us Israelis like we treat people in Gaza.

It’s too bad; we’d give the world a real lesson in how to show appreciation."


I read and reread the opinion piece to try to figure it out. He must be using sarcasm. If not, it is a sad sad day when this person has ENVY for the hardships placed upon the people of Gaza.
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 09:30 AM
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4. the author Larry Derfner is JPosts resident leftist
it is :sarcasm:
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