New York Times says there's NO CRISIS in Gaza after all
Media analyst Tom Gross points out the New York Times and other media outlets are suddenly singing a very different tune when it comes to the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza.
"Since the existence of fancy restaurants, crowded food markets for ordinary Gazans, Olympic size swimming pools, and other signs of prosperity in Gaza, were revealed," he writes, "there has also been a noticeable and dramatic reduction in the number of newspaper reporters and commentators talking of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, let alone of 'starvation.'"
For instance, in a recent piece on the Gaza mall, New York Times reporter Ethan Broner wrote that “the poverty of Gaza is often misconstrued, willfully or inadvertently… The flotilla movement is not about material aid; it is about Palestinian freedom and defiance.”
Nevertheless, Gross reminds us, on at least 15 occasions the The New York Times has described the ships as "aid ships."
The mall article also quotes 22-year-old information technology student Nida Wishah saying that "Gaza is not poor in the way outsiders think. You can’t compare our poverty with that of Africa."
Similarly, a Time Magazine reporter wrote last month that “Gaza’s residents will concede that there is no hunger crisis in the Strip. Residents do love the beach, and the store shelves are stocked. But if you’re focused on starvation, they say, you’re probably missing the point.”
Asks Gross: "Could this be the same Time magazine that wrote in 2008:
'Please spare a thought for the starving Palestinians of Gaza. There are 1.5 million of them, most of them living hand to mouth.'”
More: http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/arc...
"...You can have all the dreams you like, but when you're dreaming you're not awake. And when you wake up you realize your dream has very little in common with reality." Golda Meir
And nothing compared how any of these Islamist Arab countries treat their very own...especially when it comes to rules of engagement...for starters search "Black September" how Jordan took care of their "Palestinian Problem"! And not to mention how HamAss treats their opponents Fatha!
-Ze'ev Jabotinsky z"l
Fatah, formerly, in your piggish eye "terrorists making as state in a state in Jordan and Lebanon!" fooled by your piggish Oslow treason and your Dayton plan had been stopped of turning Palestinians to traitors in Gaza.
I guess you are a Jew, this is how you have been selling forgery and fake, you are good at fabricating lies, you used K. Abdullah #1 to annex, evacuate rename part of Palestine (system to wipe the name Palestine) West bank, Egyptians do the same with Gaza, and once K. Abdullah #1 was killed for treason your Golda Meir said: ..killing their leader for making peace.
The whole region will suffer more massacre atrocities and destruction as long as this Jewish entity exists in Palestine. We have learned the lesson.
Hope the Americans broadcast Black September from a non piggish view (Black September revisited, also Lebanon War 1975) then there would be no more hate for Americans and no chance for forgery and fake like this caricature! How about a caricature of the up-to-date arsenal you evaporated the Gazan wretched people with it!
Israel received over eight years of rockets 14,000 raining down on it. Do you find this acceptable? Do you speak to a people whose very charter and constitution wants your destruction?
http://www.mideastweb.org/ham...
http://www.mideastweb.org/fat...
Do you think it is acceptable to to have your buses, malls, cafes, restaurants blown up AFTER you offer peace and 97% of land?
Do you think it is exceptable to have a security fence to protect you from such murder and mayhem, if not why not?
Do you think it is acceptable that a state in the hope of peace ethnically cleanse Jews from their own land, leave green houses, fertile land only to get 600+ rockets fired into over six months into your civilian towns acceptable? How do you propose dealing with it?
This is where I differ from my dear friends - I will never apologise for Israelis or Jews defending themselves and by doing so living. During the peace talks last week. Four Israelis were murdered one in a pregnant woman, the confirmed the kill by shooting her in her stomach four times.
As long as a "cri...
Israel received over eight years of rockets 14,000 raining down on it. Do you find this acceptable? Do you speak to a people whose very charter and constitution wants your destruction?
http://www.mideastweb.org/ham...
http://www.mideastweb.org/fat...
Do you think it is acceptable to to have your buses, malls, cafes, restaurants blown up AFTER you offer peace and 97% of land?
Do you think it is exceptable to have a security fence to protect you from such murder and mayhem, if not why not?
Do you think it is acceptable that a state in the hope of peace ethnically cleanse Jews from their own land, leave green houses, fertile land only to get 600+ rockets fired into over six months into your civilian towns acceptable? How do you propose dealing with it?
This is where I differ from my dear friends - I will never apologise for Israelis or Jews defending themselves and by doing so living. During the peace talks last week. Four Israelis were murdered one in a pregnant woman, the confirmed the kill by shooting her in her stomach four times.
As long as a "crime" constitute Jews surviving and defending themselves - I'll pick criminal. I'm sorry that we Jews living, surviving and flourishing annoys you but so far compromise, peace, land hasn't worked against "Palestinian" mass murder, terrorism, hatred and mayhem.
Britain finished part of the job supporting the settlement and establishment of military and illegal Jewish immigrants, leaves Palestine.
American part, Harry Truman's presidential campaign supported by Zionists later forces the UN to divide Palestine and recognize a Jewish state in it.
The Zionist lobby in the world and the Christian sympathy get recognition for the Jewish state.
American absolute military and moral support to the Jewish state.
Now the Jewish state as ever propagating Goliath (Arabic armies though badly equipped and under British command at the beginning, later under command of traitors and puppets) against David (poor Jews-though highly equipped and trained- escaping Hitler's Nazi Germany to find Arab/Moslem fanatics)
The Jewish state caused killings on the side of Palestinians and misery till now
ignited and involved in Black September 1970 war and massacres
always winning ground and tricking one part against the other the latest one was igniting
war among Fatah and Hamas!
ignited and involved in Lebanon War and massacres
You are not a neighbor! This is an illegitimate and illegal state!
You are the root of all evil in the region!
I would have more respect for you if you showed who you really are.
These Jews have built a wonderful and prosperous democracy for themselves using arab's as cheap labor, their land for cheap development, and their religion and ethnicity as an excuse to create an oppressive police state.
who would get their nukes?
have you been to israel?
i have and there are no great nike factories as in viet nam making running shoes for the elites of the world
there are farms which are largely mechanized
there are high tech firms which design electronics but they are manufactured in china
there are defense industries but few arabs are trusted to work there
there are many arabs working in the tourist industry but why would people stop visiting israel
israel is not like a third world arab country where you have to watch your back every minute in the fear that some jihadi will take off your head
tell your beloved arabs to make a peace before they end up with nothing
Assuming there is not a WW or large regional war involving Israel -
Food: Israel exports a large amount of food so I have trouble understanding how they would run out of it. They have agriculture all over the country.
Weapons: Israel also sells their Israeli made weapons to other countries (including to the US) so I have trouble understanding how they would run out of them today since they manufacture much of their own. I think the main thing they need to buy today are jet planes - but the same goes for the Arab states. The US has the best so Israel wants the best and it's cheaper to buy than to produce their own.
Israel did not have much US weapon support until after the '67 war and they won their previous wars and didn't starve. The 1967 war was a HUGE and fast win for Israel against several Arab countries. Before the 1967 Six Day War, Israel was supplied mostly by France (and Czechoslovakia before France) but France and the US imposed an arms embargo on Israel during the Six Day War, like the US did in their 1948 war. Regardless of that Israel won.
The Soviets were supplying and replenishing the Arab arsenals so after the '67 war, the Johnson administration decided it was in the US interest to resupply the Israelis with weapons to maintain a b...
Assuming there is not a WW or large regional war involving Israel -
Food: Israel exports a large amount of food so I have trouble understanding how they would run out of it. They have agriculture all over the country.
Weapons: Israel also sells their Israeli made weapons to other countries (including to the US) so I have trouble understanding how they would run out of them today since they manufacture much of their own. I think the main thing they need to buy today are jet planes - but the same goes for the Arab states. The US has the best so Israel wants the best and it's cheaper to buy than to produce their own.
Israel did not have much US weapon support until after the '67 war and they won their previous wars and didn't starve. The 1967 war was a HUGE and fast win for Israel against several Arab countries. Before the 1967 Six Day War, Israel was supplied mostly by France (and Czechoslovakia before France) but France and the US imposed an arms embargo on Israel during the Six Day War, like the US did in their 1948 war. Regardless of that Israel won.
The Soviets were supplying and replenishing the Arab arsenals so after the '67 war, the Johnson administration decided it was in the US interest to resupply the Israelis with weapons to maintain a balance against the Soviets.
The one war where Israel truly needed weapons, tanks and planes from the US was close to the end of the Yom Kippur war, but that was only because PM Golda Meir was told by Nixon to not fire the first shot. She complied and thus put her IDF troops and their arms at serious risk just because she didn't want to upset Nixon. Plus, she received bad intelligence from the Americans and her own intelligence people. Israel lost a huge number of people and weapons in that war but from what I read, Israel won it hands down.
But you're right in one way. The US lets the world know that they will come to Israel's rescue if there is an all out attack against them by Arab states. That's a disincentive for the Arabs to attack because they know they can't win against the US. The US wants as much stability in the Middle East as it can get because much of the world's supply of oil is there and problems from wars always slide across borders.
Some interesting sites full of information.
Myths and Facts
http://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
US Foreign Aid
http://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
Now Israel only gets military support from the US.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
Arms Balance
http://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
Everything you might want to know about the Myths and Facts regarding Israel. It's an excellent resource. Probably the best online.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
I know it's the Jewish Virtual Library, but it's excellent. Check it out.
During the Yom Kippur war in 1973 when America was transporting planes to Israel to replace the hundreds of planes lost by Israel, not one country in Europe would allow the planes to fly over their territory. The planes had to be carried inside the giant Galaxie aircraft from America.
France and England have sold Israel no significant arms since 1967 when America become a friend to Israel. They knelt in the oil puddles worship "the Musselmen" as apparently you do.
I swear, Grok, you gotta read some real history books. I do not know where you get your facts from. Europe has been bought by oil money and they would spit on Israel at moment's notice to please those with the oil money.
England and America had an arms embargo to the whole area except for England's support for the Arab Legion in Jordan. France sold some arms to Israel as France was in a war in Algeria but France quit selling any arms to Israel in 1967.
2. Israel manufacturers and exports weapons. Israel stops buying them watch how many US jobs and industries fold. You do know 70% of that $3 billion loan has to be spent on US weapons.
3. Israel has signed a peace treaty with Egypt and Jordan. However, its national suicide to make friends with groups that have waged war and seek to destroy you. Case in point Hezbollah with its 40,000 long range scuds. And if you think we can't make friends with our neighbour look what Syria and Lebanon did and do to their own people.
4. The bullets that go into your M16 & M4's are made in Israel.
5. Go have a Jaffa oranges the size of a football.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/...
http://www.thedavidproject.or...
2. Israel mines the copper, steel, aluminum, oil, water, and all the other sundry ingredients for weapons and then manufactures and machines every single piece in israel? Don't be ridiculous. The US economy, especially it's weapons industries can easily take 3billion dollar hit. It's a drop in the bucket. Perhaps someone might lose their job, but there are other jobs to be had.
3. Israel is a state founded in state that was created by British colonial mandate. And as you say in another post, so are most of the countries in the region. I question the legitimacy of all post-colonial boundaries that would divide nations of people into separate states.
4. No one cares who manufactures our bullets. Bullets are not hard to make. If Israel stops making them, someone else will, or maybe we will do it ourselves.
5. ?
as far as your links go: I'll put em on my tabs and read them when I can.