Friday, January 25, 2008

Wow, No One Does Humanitarian Crisis Quite Like Hamas

So is the suggestion from the PalPress News Agency run from Ramallah. This report was run on the 21st of January and autotranslated by google:
Ramallah - Palestine Press - reliable local sources in the Gaza Strip said that Hamas militia outside the law, the decision of the supreme political leadership, ordered bakery owners in the towns and camps sector prevent the sale of bread for citizens and closing doors Mkhabzhm, in a continuation in its scheme aimed to deepen the humanitarian crisis it is going through the Gaza Strip in order to achieve narrow partisan gains.

It quoted the sources, a number of bakery owners in the sector saying, "they had received orders from Hamas militias before closing Mkhabzhm immediately and prevent the sale of bread for citizens, and not presented themselves to brutality and vengeance of those militias in the absence of Anasiallm orders."

The bakery owners, "that the stocks of material sufficient to meet the precise needs of the population of the Gaza Strip of bread for one full month and more", who indicated that they are able to provide this basic commodity for the Palestinian citizen throughout this period of no orders militia Hamas, which prevented them from doing so. "

They "noted that even in the light of legalizing the distribution of electricity in the provinces sector from discontinued power station Strip for work, they are able to fill the needs of the local market in the Gaza Strip good bread," as confirmed the existence of material reserves of diesel to run their generators in Mkhabzhm in the event of power outages of the distribution company.

It is noteworthy that the militia movement Hamas, in a continuation of its policy to create a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, the evening yesterday, Sunday, looted a large quantity of fuel oil stations deployed in the Gaza Strip which had been earmarked to cover the necessary needs of the hospitals.

The owner of fuel stations that, "This amounts seized by Hamas was necessary to cover the needs of hospitals, where Hamas Bajtzaha taller and putting them in camps in the Gaza Strip for use in processions leadership lighting and ceiling space, and houses Hamas leaders and the headquarters of security only," while local sources said The eyewitnesses, "The guards Ismail Haniya President of the Government of Hamas in Gaza article stole fuel from a depot Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, some fuel stations and forced at gunpoint in order to secure fuel for cars and luxurious and parade his house and the Cabinet Office article."

The hat tip goes out to the Elder of Ziyon, and if you are not reading him, shame. The Elder rightly points out that the Palestine Press is published in Ramallah and can be considered pro-fatah, anti-Hamas newspaper, but in this case, I think its safe to presume the Palestine Press is on track as it jibes the images published around the world showing Palestinians buying televisions, cigarettes, computers etc. in Egypt.

4 comments:

K. Shoshana said...

Never fear - I will be going home with the Last Amazon all in good time.

Anon - your spelling is relatively reasonable but you really do need to work on your grammar. Especially, if you are going to continue to indulge your misogynistic name calling tendencies on my blog. I prefer the use of "haughty" rather than "supercilious" as the strong "H" sound of 'Haughty' beats the Mary Poppins "SSS" sounds of "supercilious" any day.

Blazingcatfur said...

K I suspect this to be the same Anon who has been following me around for awhile, so sorry he ended up at your site.

Quite a charmer no?

PS. Are you planning a post on the Afrocentric schools issue?

K. Shoshana said...

Blazing Cat Fur – Welcome back. I really don’t know if your Anon is my Anon. I have had him as a visitor for some time now and for some odd reason he always makes his appearance on a Friday.

As for the Black school debate I have already done two posts on it, and in general, most of the outright bigotry from the opponents of the proposal I find incredibly appalling but to summarize here is my position.

1) The situation is dire and the solution requires a little thinking outside the box.

2) You cannot maintain 58 different kinds of specialty schools including a secondary school for gays and lesbians and then tell the Black community you can’t have one. It reeks of racism and trust me, the opposition has been duly noted.

3) The black community has been lambasted for a lack of initiative for solutions to the problems within their community. And when a group of concerned black parents and educators come together with a potential solution to address the educational deficit within their community they get slapped in the face for attempting to offer a solution. Believe it or not, Black parents pay property taxes too.

4) For those teens who do come from dysfunctional families – it offers two outside benefits –the chance to have accessible and positive role models for themselves within the classroom – I am thinking within the curriculum or the teacher. The Last Amazon is half-way through grade 12 – in her career she has had only three black educators. Two were supply teachers, and one was at her private prep school who taught English and Gym. In fact, I removed her from the elementary public school in junior kindergarten due to the innate racism of her teacher in Toronto who was failing her. At 4, the Last Amazon could write her first and last name, not only knew her alphabet but could write each of the letters, she had a sight vocabulary of approximately 50 words and could count to 100, she recognized numbers from 1-20 but she was “failing to develop”. Go figure. Her overall average last term was 93% in grade 12 with a 96% in English and 97% in physics. Imagine where she would be today if I left her in public elementary school in Toronto.

5) There already is a successful model of a black school teaching a curriculum based on a blackcentric education in Brampton. They have a rather remarkable success rate with some very tough students. And for those who believe a blackcentric education would center on cannibalism or witchdoctory 101 I would suggest wearing your ignorance on your sleeve it not a badge of honour nor does not mean the rest of wallow in the ignorance.

6) Attendance based on skin colour would not be mandatory and the school would be open to all. And for people who believe it would signal a return to the days of segregation I suggest you take a walk through any high school cafeteria in Toronto. The students already self-segregate.

7) And as a conservative, if you needed another reason to support such a school, here’s one. The Toronto Star editorial board is dead set against it.

http://thelastamazon.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-not.html

http://thelastamazon.blogspot.com/2007/11/as-beat-goes-on.html

Blazingcatfur said...

I read your post. it was very well informed, as I expected it would be. Sorry I could not be by sooner, I have had Dragons to slay:) Well not all by my lonesome.