It's Amazing what Israel gets away with.
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The Ingrates
By Judy Lash Balint, Jerusalem:
Where in the world are refugees living with Italian marble, Spanish
tile and Japanese refrigerators? Why in Jenin, of
course.
Before his downfall, Saddam Hussein delivered on a pledge to donate $25,000 to 100 Arab families from the Jenin refugee camp whose homes had been destroyed during Israel's campaign to roustout terrorists there in 2002.
In a fit of generosity, the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Authority contributed another $29 million to the
rebuilding effort.
Some 435 apartments were being rebuilt under the auspices of the
British Government Department for International Development, but the
project ground to a screeching halt last week after the British team fled Jenin when Arab gunmen armed with M-16 rifles fired on their headquarters. The gunmen were apparently voicing their protest at the small size of the new quarters in the "refugee camp."
According to The Times of London, the three-man team of technical experts called it quits after months of threats and
intimidation culminated in the madcap shooting spree.
Paul Wolstenholme, project manager, Neil Johnston, construction manager and Mike Luffingham, design manager, expressed dismay at the violent response from the refugees. The men had been overseeing anunprecedented building effort, in which some of the replacement multi-storey homes featured Italian marble kitchen counters, Spanish tiles, Belgian windows and Japanese refrigerators, courtesy of the Iraqi dictator. "You wouldn't believe how good the properties are, the
finishing is fantastic," said Johnston.
Several houses are built on two levels, with three rooms and a kitchen on each level, to accommodate the clan-style living arrangements of most refugee camp residents. Many of those who had received Saddam Hussein's payments added balconies and fancy outsid lighting.
The whole thing was beginning to make a mockery out of the appellation "refugee camp." Where else in the world do refugees live in digs costing $135 per meter? Indeed, several camp residents (among the only people in the world who claim 3rd or 4th generation refugee status) had begun to mumble about how difficult it would be to continue to attract world sympathy for their plight under the new conditions. "We've lost the right of return," a member of the camp's governing committee whined to a reporter from the Haaretz newspaper.
But the fuse was lit when one powerful clan allegedly bullied contractors into expanding their building at the expense of the neighbors. In a microcosm of wider Arab negotiating techniques, the aggrieved party decided to shoot it out rather than talk it out.
The Brits had enough when the bullets started to fly. "I have come to help these innocent individuals who lost their houses through no fault of their own—and what do I get but harassment threats, and not one word of thanks," said one unidentified British worker.
Just one week before, a Jordanian security team ran for their lives after Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade gunmen in the camp threatened its members. According to The Jerusalem Post, the ugly little incident started when Al Aksa thugs objected to the Jordanians arriving without prior coordination with Yasser Arafat.
The goings-on in Jenin's refugee camp provide a window into the havoc that passes for international policy on Arab refugees. UNRWA, the UN agency charged with carrying out humanitarian efforts for the Arabs displaced by wars more than half a century ago, has fallen into serious disrepute for perpetuating the misery of its charges. [See UNRWA, A Report by Pearl Herman at www.IsraelBehindtheNews.com]
The international community pays little attention to the ridiculousness of the claims of many so-called Arab refugees who find themselves living just a few miles from the villages they inhabited in 1948. Men like Jamal Nashrati, who maintains his two wives and 11 children in one of the new apartments in the Jenin camp. Poor Jamal is still pining for "his" village of Zarin, located exactly 12.5 miles from Jenin. Nashrati wasn't even born there—his parents are from Zarin.
No other people displaced a few miles by wars that occurred decades ago, and now re-housed for free in dwellings that would be the envy of many a citizen of the Arab world, would have the chutzpa to lay claim to the "refugee" title, nor to the millions in foreign aid being poured into their part of the world.
By Judy Lash Balint, Jerusalem:
Where in the world are refugees living with Italian marble, Spanish
tile and Japanese refrigerators? Why in Jenin, of
course.
Before his downfall, Saddam Hussein delivered on a pledge to donate $25,000 to 100 Arab families from the Jenin refugee camp whose homes had been destroyed during Israel's campaign to roustout terrorists there in 2002.
In a fit of generosity, the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Authority contributed another $29 million to the
rebuilding effort.
Some 435 apartments were being rebuilt under the auspices of the
British Government Department for International Development, but the
project ground to a screeching halt last week after the British team fled Jenin when Arab gunmen armed with M-16 rifles fired on their headquarters. The gunmen were apparently voicing their protest at the small size of the new quarters in the "refugee camp."
According to The Times of London, the three-man team of technical experts called it quits after months of threats and
intimidation culminated in the madcap shooting spree.
Paul Wolstenholme, project manager, Neil Johnston, construction manager and Mike Luffingham, design manager, expressed dismay at the violent response from the refugees. The men had been overseeing anunprecedented building effort, in which some of the replacement multi-storey homes featured Italian marble kitchen counters, Spanish tiles, Belgian windows and Japanese refrigerators, courtesy of the Iraqi dictator. "You wouldn't believe how good the properties are, the
finishing is fantastic," said Johnston.
Several houses are built on two levels, with three rooms and a kitchen on each level, to accommodate the clan-style living arrangements of most refugee camp residents. Many of those who had received Saddam Hussein's payments added balconies and fancy outsid lighting.
The whole thing was beginning to make a mockery out of the appellation "refugee camp." Where else in the world do refugees live in digs costing $135 per meter? Indeed, several camp residents (among the only people in the world who claim 3rd or 4th generation refugee status) had begun to mumble about how difficult it would be to continue to attract world sympathy for their plight under the new conditions. "We've lost the right of return," a member of the camp's governing committee whined to a reporter from the Haaretz newspaper.
But the fuse was lit when one powerful clan allegedly bullied contractors into expanding their building at the expense of the neighbors. In a microcosm of wider Arab negotiating techniques, the aggrieved party decided to shoot it out rather than talk it out.
The Brits had enough when the bullets started to fly. "I have come to help these innocent individuals who lost their houses through no fault of their own—and what do I get but harassment threats, and not one word of thanks," said one unidentified British worker.
Just one week before, a Jordanian security team ran for their lives after Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade gunmen in the camp threatened its members. According to The Jerusalem Post, the ugly little incident started when Al Aksa thugs objected to the Jordanians arriving without prior coordination with Yasser Arafat.
The goings-on in Jenin's refugee camp provide a window into the havoc that passes for international policy on Arab refugees. UNRWA, the UN agency charged with carrying out humanitarian efforts for the Arabs displaced by wars more than half a century ago, has fallen into serious disrepute for perpetuating the misery of its charges. [See UNRWA, A Report by Pearl Herman at www.IsraelBehindtheNews.com]
The international community pays little attention to the ridiculousness of the claims of many so-called Arab refugees who find themselves living just a few miles from the villages they inhabited in 1948. Men like Jamal Nashrati, who maintains his two wives and 11 children in one of the new apartments in the Jenin camp. Poor Jamal is still pining for "his" village of Zarin, located exactly 12.5 miles from Jenin. Nashrati wasn't even born there—his parents are from Zarin.
No other people displaced a few miles by wars that occurred decades ago, and now re-housed for free in dwellings that would be the envy of many a citizen of the Arab world, would have the chutzpa to lay claim to the "refugee" title, nor to the millions in foreign aid being poured into their part of the world.
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Almost a million Jews who fled or were forced out of Arab countries in the 1940s and 50s gratefully lived for years in tents and tenements with no foreign subvention whatsoever. They went on to become productive citizens, the backbone of Israeli society, with scarcely a look back at the towns and villages they left behind so long ago. Ask an Israeli Jew of Libyan or Moroccan origin if he considers himself a refugee and he'll refer you to the closest psychiatrist.
Like almost every Arab leader, the gunmen of Jenin have succeeded in
perpetuating the misery of their brethren.
But perhaps they have also accomplished a service by exposing the hypocrisy of a community of self-defined refugees living a little uncomfortably with their Italian marble.
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Judy Lash Balint, Jerusalem.
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major control-V on my part, but it ain't no ghetto in those "refugee camps". And while I'm at it, another good reason we got rid of Saddam.
Like almost every Arab leader, the gunmen of Jenin have succeeded in
perpetuating the misery of their brethren.
But perhaps they have also accomplished a service by exposing the hypocrisy of a community of self-defined refugees living a little uncomfortably with their Italian marble.
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Judy Lash Balint, Jerusalem.
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major control-V on my part, but it ain't no ghetto in those "refugee camps". And while I'm at it, another good reason we got rid of Saddam.
/\ /\ hahaha "Poor Rodney" why wont anyone listen to him?
Mexican pizza before you decide to copy and paste another pointless read, go to Dictionary.com and look up Ghetto. then you might feal stupid.
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes
1. A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
2. An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
3. Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: “trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” (Diane Weathers).
Infact I will just do it for you I wouldnt want you to waste any of your "important research time" looking for the tru meaning of a word!
Mexican pizza before you decide to copy and paste another pointless read, go to Dictionary.com and look up Ghetto. then you might feal stupid.
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes
1. A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
2. An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
3. Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: “trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” (Diane Weathers).
Infact I will just do it for you I wouldnt want you to waste any of your "important research time" looking for the tru meaning of a word!
Last edited by Fatal Velocity; Jun 29, 2004 at 04:58 PM.
#2. An often "Walled" quarter. bla bla bla Jews. So if the Jews want all the sypothy cause they were treated bad by Hitler why are they gonna turn around and do what hitler did to other people cause of thier race?
Both sides are moronic @sshats. To blame any one side is unfair as the fault lies in both the palestinians and the israelis. It's just depending on who was killed recently...the fault meter tends to swing one way or another. And the fault meter doesn't stop there either...it extends all the way to Saudi Arab, Jordan, the United States, the UK and the rest of the European nations for the way they handled the post WWII Arab world division. Every muthaf'er is guilty as hell for contributing to this situation and is avoiding any global social responsibility (like such a thing exist) to end the vicious cycle. But then, this has been going on for some 2500 some odd years...I doubt we'll see the end of it in our lifetime. Damn Abraham for having a mistress 
Originally Posted by stevenkhau
Both sides are moronic @sshats. To blame any one side is unfair as the fault lies in both the palestinians and the israelis. It's just depending on who was killed recently...the fault meter tends to swing one way or another. And the fault meter doesn't stop there either...it extends all the way to Saudi Arab, Jordan, the United States, the UK and the rest of the European nations for the way they handled the post WWII Arab world division. Every muthaf'er is guilty as hell for contributing to this situation and is avoiding any global social responsibility (like such a thing exist) to end the vicious cycle. But then, this has been going on for some 2500 some odd years...I doubt we'll see the end of it in our lifetime. Damn Abraham for having a mistress
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A good friend of mines is half Palastinian. Told me stories about how Isreale troops came to his unlce's hows and told everyone to leave. His uncle disagreed and they shot his wife. Then there are even more crazy stories he told us. How would you feel if someone came and told you this is now there land and you have to leave. Well they did that to a whole country.
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[QUOTE=Fatal Velocity] "These crazy Bastards"= your country the US is funding millions and millions of dollers to every year with tax dollers which belong in the US, I just thought some people may be more interested in why the hell your country is in Recession./QUOTE]
Actually, in 1994 dollars it was 3 BILLION a year!
Everyone who is even remotely interested in the Israel/Palistine issue should go read "From Beruit to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman. This guy is brilliant.
From NY times:
Mr. Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). His book, "From Beirut to Jerusalem" (1989), won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989. His latest book, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" (2000), won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy and has been published in 20 languages. He also wrote the text accompanying Micha Bar-Am's book, "Israel: A Photobiography."
Actually, in 1994 dollars it was 3 BILLION a year!
Everyone who is even remotely interested in the Israel/Palistine issue should go read "From Beruit to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman. This guy is brilliant.
From NY times:
Mr. Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). His book, "From Beirut to Jerusalem" (1989), won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989. His latest book, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" (2000), won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy and has been published in 20 languages. He also wrote the text accompanying Micha Bar-Am's book, "Israel: A Photobiography."
Unforyunatly these stories are true. I have herd several on my part, me being from there really gives me the fealing that I personally need to take actions into my own hands, however when I look at the entire situation I feal both sides are acting pretty immature. I will say one thing however no one can ever judge the way one of those suicide bombers as crazy or stupid, unless they have been through the same crap.
The people of Palestine have been suffering thier entire lives, especially those of this generation, our generation, has been simply born into this "life of no life" all the men and weomen have is thier families, and when that is taken away from them there is nothing else to live for but retaliation. It may sound like a bad thing to say but before you judge a person put yourself in thier shoes.
your little brother has been killed, what are you going to do? no he wasnt killed cause he chased a ball into the street and got ran over he was killed on his way home from playing soccer with his dad, he was cornered and covered by his dad and some how those Isralies still managed to put one in his head. so how do you feal what are you gonna do? what is his dad gonna do? what is his mom gonna do? they are going to hate whoever killed thier son.
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Why does this happen? and yet no one has answered my question. How does Israel Manage to get away with this stuff?
The people of Palestine have been suffering thier entire lives, especially those of this generation, our generation, has been simply born into this "life of no life" all the men and weomen have is thier families, and when that is taken away from them there is nothing else to live for but retaliation. It may sound like a bad thing to say but before you judge a person put yourself in thier shoes.
your little brother has been killed, what are you going to do? no he wasnt killed cause he chased a ball into the street and got ran over he was killed on his way home from playing soccer with his dad, he was cornered and covered by his dad and some how those Isralies still managed to put one in his head. so how do you feal what are you gonna do? what is his dad gonna do? what is his mom gonna do? they are going to hate whoever killed thier son.
http://saep.org/ezimagecatalogue/cat...53-100x150.jpg
http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/...ramiafp150.jpg
Why does this happen? and yet no one has answered my question. How does Israel Manage to get away with this stuff?
Originally Posted by Subaruski42o
A good friend of mines is half Palastinian. Told me stories about how Isreale troops came to his unlce's hows and told everyone to leave. His uncle disagreed and they shot his wife. Then there are even more crazy stories he told us. How would you feel if someone came and told you this is now there land and you have to leave. Well they did that to a whole country.
Last edited by Fatal Velocity; Jul 1, 2004 at 11:44 AM.
