Elder of Ziyon
28 May '10
All this week, the media have been saying that the Flotilla of Fools aiming towards Gaza is bringing in some 10,000 tons of aid. For example, in Business Week:
The eight ships, organized by an international group called the Free Gaza Movement, are carrying about 10,000 tons of cargo, including cement for rebuilding homes destroyed by war in Gaza, medical equipment and school supplies.
Yet last week, the amount that the organizers publicized was 5000 tons. From the Palestine Chronicle" on May 21:
The ships are carrying 5,000 tons of construction materials, medical equipment, and school supplies, as well as around 600 people from 40 countries. "
From the Irish Times on May 19th:
The nine boats are due to arrive in Gaza next week with 5,000 tons of reconstruction material, medical equipment and school supplies.
That is a remarkable increase in cargo for the week.
It gets even weirder. Clearly, the heaviest part of the aid is the construction material, and according to the media reports and the Free Gaza folks, they are bringing in only 500 tons of cement. So are they bringing in 9,500 tons of paper, schoolbooks and medical supplies? There are some six tons of paper from Norway, so that can't be it.
Even if they are bringing in prefabricated houses, as some reports say, prefab houses weigh only about 1.5 tons each- and I didn't see any pictures of thousands of houses on the ships that would be needed to fill out 10,000 tons.
Is it possible that they are lying?
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You have no idea what love is....or what the weight of a prefab house might be. A ShelterUS
ReplyDelete52m2 SIMPLE structure weighs a half-ton. Even if some other system did weigh 1.5, that would be 3000 tons for the 2000 houses sent. Assuming the concrete for floor slabs and foundations would be heavier per cubic foot, ten thousand tons is easily honest. Obviously as time passed more and more was contributed.
Some folks love the land so much they want to bury their enemies in it? That's the Old Testament. Then there was the New Testament.
Now there is Our Testament. Yours is spit into the wind, and the land cries for lack of water....
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Whether the math can be worked out really is not the point, but rather how material arrives. There are land crossings, both on the Israel side as well as the Egyptian side. Thousands of tons of needed material passes through every week without incident. The flotilla has been offered the same opportunity, but has chosen to try to break a naval blockade to create a corridor through which rockets and arms can pass without inspection. Truthfully, Hamas is not interested in the New Testament or for that matter, the Old. But they're always happy to take your donations.
ReplyDeleteYou have a comment. Do you only print the comments that agree with you?
ReplyDeleteYosef, this is not about Hamas. That many of the supplies that were delivered to Gazans in previous overland deliveries never made it past Hamas operatives is no surprise. But we learned as children, you do not fight wrong with wrong. It is not a question of whether Hamas reads the New Testement. As my mentor, the architect Louis Kahn once said in class. "I am not a practicing Jew, but in practice, you Christians have us. It is that love-your-enemy-part."
ReplyDeleteA prefab house is not a weapon, and Israel is perfectly capable of keeping arms from arriving by ship. A ship is contained and isolated on the water. I fools no one You simple direct the ship to the dock, or bring the dock to the ship, and review its manifest. There is no such thing as a "corridor" in the water.
Marbles and slingshot are not weapons, and more than stones on land. "Disproportionate Response" is Newspeak" for ambush, piracry and massacre. As Bill Clinton said after his abuse-of-power with a woman, "Why did I do it? Because I could."
Israel is Sampson and Palestine is David.
I will always side with the Too Small To Matter, not the Too Big To Fail. Like Sampson
Israels's Might does not make it right.
I donate houses. To those whose houses have been obliterated by bombs and phosophorous.
As the movie RASHOMON demonstrates, there can be many versions of the same event, but The Truth knows itself. And Love IS The Truth.
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To Anonymous-I really am clueless to what you are referring to.
ReplyDeleteTo Christian House: These ships were directed to port, where there goods can be checked and delivered. They refused and were challenged for trying to break a naval blockade, not for delivering houses. If your desire is humanitarian aid, deliver it in that manner. Your choice of method will show your intention.
The Navel Blockade is illegal and inhumane. And when you invade my house, floating or on land, that hasn't a gun in it, I WILL fight back with then nearest chair or plumbing-pipe.
ReplyDeleteIsrael invades,invades,and then invades some more. The Flotilla was simply trying to visit a friend's house. To Israel the friend-of-my-enemy-is-my-enemy, to turn-a-phrase.
"Directed to port?" Oh, yes, that certainly looked like a safe-escort by Isreal Military of aid to Gaza. Next time, three times as many ships. How dare you assume another's intentions? I need not pass an Israeli, or your test. I only need answer to The Truth.
Actually Naval blockades are both legal and humane, and do not preclude the delivery of necessary humanitarian items but directs how and where this will take place. It's unfortunate that these passengers chose to throw molotov cocktails, shock grenades, knives made to injure human beings as opposed to those used by the Boy Scouts. Your argument is not exactly overwhelming in the truth department, but far be it from me to burden your religiosity with a semblance of morality. You get the picture and if not, reality can be difficult for some. BTW, aid arrives daily under U.N supervision, as it has for a considerable amount of time. Barring Hamas or others rocketing the transfer points, as they have done on a number of occasions,everything proceeds smoothly, even under the watchful eye of the IDF. Of course, that's the rub. I hope you don't object to the U.N. supervisors not willing to work when there is directed rocket fire at the transfer points.
ReplyDeletestill clueless?
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