Pipe Dreams
June 14, 2012 12:36 by Pesach Benson
Hamas's pipe dreams
BBC and some non-governmental organizations broke out the violins for the Gaza’s children: the drinking water’s contanimated and you know whose fault that is.
The charities Save the Children and Medical Aid for Palestinians say the number of children being treated for diarrhoea has doubled in five years.
They say Israel’s five-year blockade of the territory is preventing crucial sanitation equipment from getting in.
The blockade must be lifted “in its entirety”, they say.
My heart goes out to the sick kids. They don’t deserve this.
That said, Hamas and its Big Media sycophants have a pipe dream that Israel simply lift the blockade of Gaza regardless of the security costs involved. That’s one reason NGO reports like this one attract press interest.
But no conversation about Gaza’s sewage system is complete without some info that goes against the Beeb/NGO storyline:
The Palestinians ripped up their own sewage system to make rockets out of the pipes. And deliveries of Israeli-made pipes were sent to Qassam factories, which is why Israel no longer sends the material.
Of course, Gazans can look across their southern border to Egypt for sewage assistance, advice, and inspiration, right?
Uh, maybe not.
(Image via Flickr/nickberkowitz)
Yair
6:05 pm
Jun 14, 2012
I could not think of a better metaphor for the direction Hamas is taking society in.
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Barry
10:09 pm
Jun 14, 2012
Israel must be more vociferous on matters like these and exploit the absurdity of such matters.
the one thing that Israel could surely learn from the Palestinians is how to spin a story to suit their own needs for a change.
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Stephen
3:19 am
Jun 15, 2012
Surely, by now, Israel should be demanding that it be afforded equal time – even after the fact – to explain its side of the story with equal unquestioning by BBC and its ilk.
Wouldn’t it be nice for an Israeli envoy/spokesperson publicly stating the absurdity of Hamas tearing up its own infrastructure as war materials and then complain that Israel isn’t supplying it with more of the same.
It should be embarrassing to the press as much as it would be enlightening to the public. Perhaps put it into a context the public could better understand, such as Britain blamed for the lack of material and food for German soldiers during both world wars; Japan not supplied with US steel in WWII?
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Leah
2:58 pm
Jun 15, 2012
You just can’t fix “stupid”. These are the same people who destroyed the expensive greenhouses Bill Gates paid for so they could raise food. No surprise then that they prefer to live in their own sewage so they can continue to kill Israelis. A great illustration of just how hate rots from the inside out and destroys all it touches.
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The Middle East Media Sampler 6/15/2012: What Next In Egypt? | Blogs about Israel aggregation
4:45 pm
Jun 15, 2012
[...] That’s roughly four a day. And that’s even with the closure. And with Hamas using critical infrastructure for terror. [...]
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Middle East Media Sampler for June 15, 2012
11:35 pm
Jun 15, 2012
[...] That's roughly four a day. And that's even with the closure. And with Hamas using critical infrastructure for terror. [...]
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Egypt’s political disarray turns even more chaotic | Blogs about Israel aggregation
4:18 pm
Jun 17, 2012
[...] problems and related health problems. But as I blogged earlier today, you have to understand the Pipe Dreams involved before wading into the cess [...]
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Wunschträume* « Medien BackSpin
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Jun 18, 2012
[...] HonestReporting Media BackSpin, 18. Juni 2012 [...]
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Israel Daily News Stream 06/24/2012 | Blogs about Israel aggregation
5:03 pm
Jun 24, 2012
[...] But as I pointed out earlier this month, Big Media’s not taking into account Hamas’s Pipe Dreams. The Palestinians destroyed their own utility system to build pipes into rockets, you [...]
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Gary Katz
10:23 pm
Aug 28, 2012
For all the whining stories I have read about Gaza “shortages,” due to the blockade, I have never, ever read about the Gaza terrorists running out of weapons.
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‘Life in the Gaza Strip’ – according to the BBC | BBC Watch
9:07 am
Jan 01, 2013
[...] Sanitation” makes no mention, for example, of the fact that sewage pipes in the Gaza Strip were used to make Kassam rockets and that new supplies of pipes transported in by Israel were diverted for [...]
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‘Life in the Gaza Strip’ – according to the BBC | Blogs about Israel aggregation
10:15 am
Jan 01, 2013
[...] Sanitation” makes no mention, for example, of the fact that sewage pipes in the Gaza Strip were used to make Kassam rockets and that new supplies of pipes transported in by Israel were diverted for [...]
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