Both DN and SvD report that Israel has decided to regard the Gaza strip as a "hostile entity".
It's about time! Let someone else supply the Gaza strip. The entire world (except for the oil-rich Arab countries) stands in line to shower the Palestinians with economic aid. The Palestinians are the No. 1 receivers of foreign aid per capita throughout history, without ever having been close to the economic bottom layer. And the consequences? Well, have a look at the following graph from CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).
Is anyone surprised? Can it be so simple that it takes money to acquire weapons, like for example the rockets that rain over Sderot every day, fired from the Gaza strip?
There are no longer any Jews in the Gaza strip. The long Jewish presence there was broken for the first time in 61 C.E., when the Romans expelled the Jews from the Gaza strip. They returned, but disappeared again in 1799, when Napoleon's forces brought with them a plague. Jews returned again in the 19th century, but were deported by the Turks during World War I. After the war Jews returned once more, but had to flee during the Arab persecutions of Jews in 1929. In 1946 the kibbutz Kfar Darom was founded, but the Jews had to flee again when the Gaza strip was occupied by Egypt in 1948. Israel occcupied the strip in the Six-Day War 1967, and the building of Jewish settlements started three years later. All these were evacuated in 2005.
- This move will prepare the groundwork for sanctions against Gaza, such as the interruption of gas, electricity and water supply, which will occur in a gradual process, said an unnamed Israeli government official.
It's about time! Let someone else supply the Gaza strip. The entire world (except for the oil-rich Arab countries) stands in line to shower the Palestinians with economic aid. The Palestinians are the No. 1 receivers of foreign aid per capita throughout history, without ever having been close to the economic bottom layer. And the consequences? Well, have a look at the following graph from CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).
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| These statistics do not mean that foreign aid causes violence; but they do raise questions about the effectiveness of using foreign donations to promote moderation and combat terrorism. The graphs reveal that the increased budgetary aid to the Palestinian government after the start of the second Intifada in September 2000 was accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of Palestinian homicides in 2001 and 2002. After mid-2002, Israeli countermeasures against suicide bombers began to reduce the number of Israeli dead. By August 2003, the first portion of the security barrier was in place, leading to a rapid decline in homicides in 2003. The appointment of Salam Fayyad, a moderate technocrat, to the finance ministry in late 2002 also resulted in reduced aid as Israeli tax revenue was restored to the Palestinian government. While Israeli countermeasures reduced the number of Israeli victims, Palestinian factional violence took an ever increasing toll. When including Palestinian victims of Palestinian violence as well as Israeli victims, the correlation between aid and homicides continues beyond 2003. |
Is anyone surprised? Can it be so simple that it takes money to acquire weapons, like for example the rockets that rain over Sderot every day, fired from the Gaza strip?
There are no longer any Jews in the Gaza strip. The long Jewish presence there was broken for the first time in 61 C.E., when the Romans expelled the Jews from the Gaza strip. They returned, but disappeared again in 1799, when Napoleon's forces brought with them a plague. Jews returned again in the 19th century, but were deported by the Turks during World War I. After the war Jews returned once more, but had to flee during the Arab persecutions of Jews in 1929. In 1946 the kibbutz Kfar Darom was founded, but the Jews had to flee again when the Gaza strip was occupied by Egypt in 1948. Israel occcupied the strip in the Six-Day War 1967, and the building of Jewish settlements started three years later. All these were evacuated in 2005.
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