"Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now."
Gaza is Dying

By PATRICK COCKBURN

Gaza.

Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon and Iraq.

A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.

Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since 25 June, says Dr Juma al-Saqa, the director of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is fast running out of medicine. Of these, 64 were children and 26 women. This bloody conflict in Gaza has so far received only a fraction of the attention given by the international media to the war in Lebanon.

It was on June 25 that the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was taken captive and two other soldiers were killed by Palestinian militants who used a tunnel to get out of the Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of this, writes Gideon Levy in the daily Haaretz, the Israeli army "has been rampaging through Gaza - there's no other word to describe it - killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling, indiscriminately". Gaza has essentially been reoccupied since Israeli troops and tanks come and go at will. In the northern district of Shajhayeh they took over several houses last week and stayed five days. By the time they withdrew, 22 Palestinians had been killed, three houses were destroyed and groves of olive, citrus and almond trees had been bulldozed.

Fuad al-Tuba, the 61-year-old farmer who owned a farm here, said: "They even destroyed 22 of my bee-hives and killed four sheep." He pointed sadly to a field, its brown sandy earth churned up by tracks of bulldozers, where the stumps of trees and broken branches with wilting leaves lay in heaps. Near by a yellow car was standing on its nose in the middle of a heap of concrete blocks that had once been a small house.

His son Baher al-Tuba described how for five days Israeli soldiers confined him and his relatives to one room in his house where they survived by drinking water from a fish pond. "Snipers took up positions in the windows and shot at anybody who came near," he said. "They killed one of my neighbors called Fathi Abu Gumbuz who was 56 years old and just went out to get water."

Sometimes the Israeli army gives a warning before a house is destroyed. The sound that Palestinians most dread is an unknown voice on their cell phone saying they have half an hour to leave their home before it is hit by bombs or missiles. There is no appeal.

But it is not the Israeli incursions alone that are destroying Gaza and its people. In the understated prose of a World Bank report published last month, the West Bank and Gaza face "a year of unprecedented economic recession. Real incomes may contract by at least a third in 2006 and poverty to affect close to two thirds of the population." Poverty in this case means a per capita income of under $2 a day.

There are signs of desperation everywhere. Crime is increasing. People do anything to feed their families. Israeli troops entered the Gaza industrial zone to search for tunnels and kicked out the Palestinian police. When the Israelis withdrew they were replaced not by the police but by looters. On one day this week there were three donkey carts removing twisted scrap metal from the remains of factories that once employed thousands.

"It is the worst year for us since 1948 [when Palestinian refugees first poured into Gaza]," says Dr Maged Abu-Ramadan, a former ophthalmologist who is mayor of Gaza City. "Gaza is a jail. Neither people nor goods are allowed to leave it. People are already starving. They try to live on bread and falafel and a few tomatoes and cucumbers they grow themselves."

The few ways that Gazans had of making money have disappeared. Dr Abu-Ramadan says the Israelis "have destroyed 70 per cent of our orange groves in order to create security zones." Carnations and strawberries, two of Gaza's main exports, were thrown away or left to rot. An Israeli air strike destroyed the electric power station so 55 per cent of power was lost. Electricity supply is now becoming almost as intermittent as in Baghdad.

The Israeli assault over the past two months struck a society already hit by the withdrawal of EU subsidies after the election of Hamas as the Palestinian government in March. Israel is withholding taxes owed on goods entering Gaza. Under US pressure, Arab banks abroad will not transfer funds to the government.

Two thirds of people are unemployed and the remaining third who mostly work for the state are not being paid. Gaza is now by far the poorest region on the Mediterranean. Per capita annual income is $700, compared with $20,000 in Israel. Conditions are much worse than in Lebanon where Hizbollah liberally compensates war victims for loss of their houses. If Gaza did not have enough troubles this week there were protest strikes and marches by unpaid soldiers, police and security men. These were organized by Fatah, the movement of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, which lost the election to Hamas in January. His supporters marched through the streets waving their Kalashnikovs in the air. "Abu Mazen you are brave," they shouted. "Save us from this disaster." Sour-looking Hamas gunmen kept a low profile during the demonstration but the two sides are not far from fighting it out in the streets.

The Israeli siege and the European boycott are a collective punishment of everybody in Gaza. The gunmen are unlikely to be deterred. In a bed in Shifa Hospital was a sturdy young man called Ala Hejairi with wounds to his neck, legs, chest and stomach. "I was laying an anti-tank mine last week in Shajhayeh when I was hit by fire from an Israeli drone," he said. "I will return to the resistance when I am better. Why should I worry? If I die I will die a martyr and go to paradise."

His father, Adel, said he was proud of what his son had done adding that three of his nephews were already martyrs. He supported the Hamas government: "Arab and Western countries want to destroy this government because it is the government of the resistance."

As the economy collapses there will be many more young men in Gaza willing to take Ala Hejairi's place. Untrained and ill-armed most will be killed. But the destruction of Gaza, now under way, will ensure that no peace is possible in the Middle East for generations to come.

Patrick Cockburn is the author of 'The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq', to be published by Verso in October

Call for an immediate end to Israel's discriminatory visa-freeze policy
Press Release, CPFPH, 8 September 2006

More than 70 journalists, activists, and members of the diplomatic corps met on September 6 at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem for a press conference regarding the Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the occupied Palestinian territory.

The event was organized in conjunction with the Israeli-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI). The purpose of the press conference was to engage Israeli officials on the issue in the presence of foreign representatives. No Israeli government representatives, however, were present. A US consulate spokesperson emphasized that the consulate was aware of the visa freeze policy and that the issue was being raised at the highest levels.

IPCRI co-director Gershon Baskin and campaign activist Sam Bahour outlined the current status of Israel's so-called "viza-freeze policy", which is being broadly applied at the Israeli controlled border crossings to the occupied territory. "This is one of the more blatantly unjust and blatantly stupid things the government of Israel has ever done," said Baskin.

The policy denies entry to foreign nationals wishing to be in the territory and to associate with Palestinians in any capacity. This is done under the pretext that said foreigners must acquire a visitor's permit beforehand, but hardly any permits are being issued.

Scores of people carrying foreign passports have been cut off from family, friends, property and work. Most harshly affected are foreign national spouses of Palestinian ID holders, who must rely on three-month tourist visas to legalize their stay, because Israel does not issue permanent residency status to those wishing to live in the West Bank and Gaza.

Since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada in September of 2000, Israel has stopped accepting Palestinian applications for family reunification in the West Bank and Gaza as one method of controlling Palestinian demographics. According to B'Tselem, Israel has practiced this method of control on and off since 1967 and now has a back-log of at least 120,000 applications it is refusing to process. Israel, not the Palestinian Authority, is and has always been in control of the Palestinian population registry.

Campaign representative Anita Abdullah spoke about the political nature of the freeze policy and the need to find a political solution that would combat the policy itself, not just individual cases of discrimination.

Antigona Shkar of B'Tselem presented findings and individual video testimonies from a joint B'tselem-HaMoked report, published in August, entitled "Perpetual Limbo: Israel's Freeze on Unification of Palestinian Families in the Occupied Territories."

Prominent Palestinian businessman Zahi Khouri (chairman of the National Beverage Company) spoke of the ramifications of the freeze policy on the Palestinian business community and called on foreign missions to press Israel to end its closed door policy.

Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the oPt representative Basil Ayish called for action targeted at foreign representative offices as well as the Israeli government. "We declare our insistence on the most basic human rights," he said. "We demand that Israel immediately stop separating Palestinian families; we demand that Israel stop discriminating against those wishing to enter Israeli-occupied territory, and we expect embassies to protect and defend their citizen's rights to travel freely through Israeli ports."

For a comprehensive report on the meeting, go to http: www.ipcri.org.

Contact Person: Rima Merriman, Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the oPt
Telephone Number: ++972 0599 274 758
Email Address: info@righttoenter.ps
Web site address: http://www.RightToEnter.ps

As noted before, the nazis weren't really defeated in 1945.
They just moved into Palestine.
Among other parts of the world with the fervent help of their fellow ruling class parasites in positions of authority.
Why weren't the trains to the concentration camps ever bombed?

This is a photo of Gaza which is commonly referred to as a "prison colony." Cockburn overestimates the Gaza population. Its about 1 million people, not 1.4 million.

According to Wikipedia: "Around [1.05 million, Palestinian Ministry of Health] Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip."

One million people on 140 sq. miles equals or about 7,500 people per square mile. Compare this to San Francisco, California, recently voted the most desirable major City in the United States to live.

According to Wikipedia, the 2005 population of San Francisco was 739,426 living on 47 square miles. That's a population density of 15,732 people per square mile. Oh, and both are on the beach!

A photograph is worth a thousand words.
Although I'm not sure if it could be cropped any further and still tell if it was even a city in the middle east ( New Israel)

-The wall is not a simple construction, nor is it a single entity. Around communities close to the green line, an additional barrier is being constructed, referred to as the “depth barrier”; this trench, which is intended to further lock down Palestinian movement, will be approximately 25m wide and full of barb wire.-
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/factsheet/wall_fact_sheet.htm

Call for an immediate end to Israel's discriminatory visa-freeze policy
Press Release, CPFPH, 8 September 2006

More than 70 journalists, activists, and members of the diplomatic corps met on September 6 at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem for a press conference regarding the Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the occupied Palestinian territory.

The event was organized in conjunction with the Israeli-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI). The purpose of the press conference was to engage Israeli officials on the issue in the presence of foreign representatives. No Israeli government representatives, however, were present. A US consulate spokesperson emphasized that the consulate was aware of the visa freeze policy and that the issue was being raised at the highest levels.

IPCRI co-director Gershon Baskin and campaign activist Sam Bahour outlined the current status of Israel's so-called "viza-freeze policy", which is being broadly applied at the Israeli controlled border crossings to the occupied territory. "This is one of the more blatantly unjust and blatantly stupid things the government of Israel has ever done," said Baskin.

The policy denies entry to foreign nationals wishing to be in the territory and to associate with Palestinians in any capacity. This is done under the pretext that said foreigners must acquire a visitor's permit beforehand, but hardly any permits are being issued.

Scores of people carrying foreign passports have been cut off from family, friends, property and work. Most harshly affected are foreign national spouses of Palestinian ID holders, who must rely on three-month tourist visas to legalize their stay, because Israel does not issue permanent residency status to those wishing to live in the West Bank and Gaza.

Since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada in September of 2000, Israel has stopped accepting Palestinian applications for family reunification in the West Bank and Gaza as one method of controlling Palestinian demographics. According to B'Tselem, Israel has practiced this method of control on and off since 1967 and now has a back-log of at least 120,000 applications it is refusing to process. Israel, not the Palestinian Authority, is and has always been in control of the Palestinian population registry.

Campaign representative Anita Abdullah spoke about the political nature of the freeze policy and the need to find a political solution that would combat the policy itself, not just individual cases of discrimination.

Antigona Shkar of B'Tselem presented findings and individual video testimonies from a joint B'tselem-HaMoked report, published in August, entitled "Perpetual Limbo: Israel's Freeze on Unification of Palestinian Families in the Occupied Territories."

Prominent Palestinian businessman Zahi Khouri (chairman of the National Beverage Company) spoke of the ramifications of the freeze policy on the Palestinian business community and called on foreign missions to press Israel to end its closed door policy.

Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the oPt representative Basil Ayish called for action targeted at foreign representative offices as well as the Israeli government. "We declare our insistence on the most basic human rights," he said. "We demand that Israel immediately stop separating Palestinian families; we demand that Israel stop discriminating against those wishing to enter Israeli-occupied territory, and we expect embassies to protect and defend their citizen's rights to travel freely through Israeli ports."

For a comprehensive report on the meeting, go to http: www.ipcri.org.

Contact Person: Rima Merriman, Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the oPt
Telephone Number: ++972 0599 274 758
Email Address: info@righttoenter.ps
Web site address: http://www.RightToEnter.ps

.. mostly nationalist in the 1930s,
mostly religious in 2006 ....

Leftists have lately been mocking Bush for parroting the term "Islamo-fascism".
Of course, MOST Muslims aren't fascists.
But some progressives would like to pretend that NO Muslims (not even Al Qaeda killers) are fascists.


In my queer kafir view, Osama bin Laden certainly is
an Islamo-Fascist.
That is, his fascist politics are based on his fundi misreading of Sunni Islam (mainly reflecting Wahhabism, which dominates religious discourse in Saudi Arabia).

The current Iranian rulers follow a Shia version of Islamo-Fascism.

[ In contrast, Saddam wasn't very Islamic at all;
he was, as a secular dictator,
just a 1930-style military and nationalist fascist. ]

Likewise, there are plenty of "Christian" fundi-fascists,
and "Jewish" fundi-fascists;
notably in the far-right fringes of U.S. and Israeli politics.

Religious fundamentalism seems to be the main ideology for fascist movements in 2006
-- at least among Christians, Jews, amd Muslims
( the three peoples "of the Book").

Back in the 1920s and 30s, fascist movements
( like the KKK )
and regimes ( in Italy, Germany, Spain, etc.)
were usually justified by nationalism, racism, and ethnic pride.
Some fascists even pretended to be leftists ("Nazi" stands for national workers' socialist party;
while Stalin erected his police-state in the name of workers).

I often call Bush and Cheney fascists,
since they are trying to create a dictatorship.
But I don't really know whether they are truly fundis,
or just faking (like Rove).

So when Bush says Osama is a fascist,
it's like
one rapist denouncing another.

Indeed, politically, Republicans NEED Osama
to remain alive and at-large --
to frighten U.S. voters --
at least until
just before
the November 2008 election.....

Last Updated: Friday, 1 September 2006, 00:56 GMT 01:56 UK

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Palestinian despair as donors meet
By Alan Johnston
BBC News, West Bank


Despondency for the jobless as the Palestinian economy wastes
Diplomats and aid donors are gathering in the cool and the calm of a conference centre in Stockholm to consider the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian Territories.

And a world away, in the heat and the clamour of Gaza's alleyways, Imad Marzouk is living that crisis.

The stumps that are all that remain of his legs are still heavily bandaged.

He remembers doing ordinary things on an ordinary evening. He had just propped his bike up against a wall on a street in Gaza City, and started to chat on his mobile phone.


All our dreams are cancelled - everything's cancelled - our priorities are feeding ourselves and just living
Government worker Nidha Younis
Ramallah, West Bank

But then out of nowhere came an explosion - and horror, and agony.

An Israeli rocket had torn both his legs off.

Sitting in his wheelchair after several operations he said: "I'm looking at myself. I'm looking at my legs, and at what I've become. I didn't have any weapon to go and shoot at Israelis. I never did anything."

It seems that the rocket was meant for a nearby group of militants.

Sustained attack

The humanitarian consequences of the intensified conflict will be high on the Stockholm conference's agenda.

Since late June the Israelis have put Gaza under sustained and at times intense military pressure.

There have been more than 270 air strikes, numerous ground raids and many days of incessant artillery fire.


War has left its imprint everywhere

The United Nations says that $30m worth of damage has been done in this poverty stricken place.

The Israelis are trying to counter the militants who fire crudely made rockets from Gaza randomly into Israeli towns and villages. And the army is also trying to find and free an Israeli soldier captured in late June.

The Hamas government has suggested truce talks, and has proposed swapping the soldier for some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

But there has been no deal so far, and the killing goes on.

The casualty figures show how very one-sided the recent conflict has been.

More than 200 Palestinians have died - including many civilians - and hundreds more have been injured. One Israeli soldier has been killed - shot accidentally by his own side. Eleven Israeli civilians have been wounded in rocket fire from Gaza.

Darkness

In the course of the campaign thousands of people have fled their homes to escape Israeli artillery shells or advancing tanks.

But even for those unscathed by the violence, Gaza has become a darker place.

The Israelis bombed its only power plant, and now there is as little as six hours of electricity a day.

On many nights the alleyways of the refugee camps are lost in complete darkness. Behind the doors of crowded homes, life goes on by candlelight.

And on top of the stifling summer heat, Gazans are enduring serious water supply problems.

'Yoke of anarchy'

But even the Hamas government spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, has conceded that not all Gaza's problems can be blamed on the Israelis.

In a recent article he seemed to despair at the very poor law-and-order situation.

There are numerous militia groups and powerful clans that operate beyond the control of the weak security forces.

"Gaza is suffering under the yoke of anarchy and the swords of thugs," wrote Mr Hamad.

"We're used to blaming our mistakes on others. [But] what is the relationship between the chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, indiscriminate murders, theft of land, family rivalries... and the occupation?" he asked.

'Strangled'

Meanwhile, the Palestinian economy is being brought to its knees.

Business activity of all kinds is continually hampered by the growing number of checkpoints and barriers and controls across the occupied territories.


Rubbish mounts after municipal workers go on strike

Israelis say they are securing themselves against attack - but Palestinians are convinced that they are being deliberately strangled.

On top of this, Israel, the European Union and America are preventing all funds reaching the Hamas government because it refuses to renounce violence and accept Israel's right to exist.

The administration is so broke that it has been able to pay its workers almost nothing for six months. The entire civil service - which normally supports a quarter of the population - is being forced into poverty.

Like many government workers in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nidha Younis is eating through the last of her savings. She is fending off a landlord who is demanding rent that she cannot pay, and all the time she slides deeper into debt.

"All our dreams are cancelled," she said. "Everything's cancelled. Our priorities are feeding ourselves and just living."

The United Nations puts the poverty rate in Gaza at close to 80%. And the spokeswoman for the UN agency monitoring humanitarian affairs, OCHA, had this message for the donors at the Stockholm conference.

"What we've seen in the last year is a pattern of serious decline. Something must be done to avert a real, real disaster."

Gaza has palm trees and beaches and a pretty blue sea, so therefore it's just a tropical paradise where nobody can possibly be miserable while they're starving and dying for lack of medicine and getting slaughtered every day by the IDF psychotic hatred machine.

reality: Gaza has palm trees and beaches and a pretty blue sea, which makes it identical to half of the other hellholes created on earth by Western cryptocolonialism

Maybe the mods don't think LA-IMC's purpose is to be used by vile bigots like you as a medium for vile bigot propaganda

At an Al Awda event, a speaker said

Americans don't understand Islam. They criticize us for dressing our children up as suicide bombers. But look at them- they dress up their children on Halloween as vampires and zombies. Its no different

The Deepening Crisis in Gaza
Palestinians Forced to Scavenge Rubbish Dumps for Food

By PATRICK COCKBURN

Jerusalem.

The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies.

"The pressure and tactics have not resulted in a desire for compromise," Karen Abuzayd, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency is said to have warned. "But rather they have created mass despair, anger and a sense of hopelessness and abandonment."

Israel closed the entry and exit points into the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, on June 25 and has conducted frequent raids and bombings that have killed 262 people and wounded 1,200. The crisis in Gaza has been largely ignored by the rest of the world, which has been absorbed by the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

"Women in Gaza tell me they are eating only one meal a day, bread with tomatoes or cheap vegetables," said Kirstie Campbell of the UN's World Food Programme, which is feeding 235,000 people. She added that in June, since when the crisis has worsened, some 70 per cent of people in Gaza could not meet their family's food needs. "People are raiding garbage dumps," she said.

Not only do Palestinians in Gaza get little to eat but what food they have is eaten cold because of the lack of electricity and money to pay for fuel. The Gaza power plant was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in June. In one month alone 4 per cent of Gaza's agricultural land was destroyed by Israeli bulldozers.

The total closure imposed by Israel, supplemented by deadly raids, has led to the collapse of the Gazan economy. The 35,000 fishermen cannot fish because Israeli gunboats will fire on them if they go more than a few hundred yards from the shore. At the same time the international boycott of the Hamas government means that there is no foreign aid to pay Palestinian government employees. The government used to have a monthly budget of $180-200m, half of which went to pay 165,000 public sector workers. But it now has only $25m a month.

Aid agencies are frustrated by their inability to persuade the world that the humanitarian crisis is far worse in Gaza than it is in Lebanon. The WFP says: "In contrast to Lebanon, where humanitarian food aid needs have been essentially met, the growing number of poor in Gaza are living on the bare minimum."

It is possible for foreign journalists to visit Gaza but it is a laborious process passing through the main Israeli checkpoint at Erez and then walking down a long concrete tunnel. The kidnapping of two Fox television employees by criminals - though they were later released - has also dissuaded several TV companies from covering the crisis.

The total closure imposed by Israel dates from the seizure of Cpl Gilad Shalit by Palestinian militants on June 25. Between then and the end of August, Israeli security forces killed 226 Palestinians, 54 of them minors, in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem. Of these it says that 114 were taking no part in any hostilities.

The quickest way to alleviate the crisis would be for Israel to allow the Rafah crossing into Egypt to reopen, according to the mayor of Gaza City. But any restoration of the economy would require the reopening of the other crossing points at Erez and Karni.

* Israel lifted its sea blockade of Lebanon September 8 after an interim maritime task force led by an Italian admiral deployed off the Lebanese coast, the commander of UN peacekeepers said.

Patrick Cockburn is the author of 'The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq', to be published by Verso in October

Why can't these people have some help? They have been suffering for too long we must help them. Where is the outrage?
Air lift food and water and medicine, for God's sake.
I'm calling my congress persons and I hope all of you will too. We must do something.

I found this contact page if you live in california
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=ca
and this page for anyone in the United States
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
I hope everyone at least does this tiny thing to help, if you care.
Thank you for reading this.

Nothing compared to the billions in welfare/cash/military aid given to israel EACH YEAR by U.S. taxpayers....

Here's a great link about the right wing pro-war pro-israel media slant, with comprehensive studies--and links to other information/studies:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/

This is the Gaza beach.

More accurate depiction. Looking at the beach/propaganda pic, you'd think they were dancing with joy in Palestine....of course, we know that's not the case.

It's wrong

More Mainstream Arab Media. Its good to know what kind of racist cartoons they are printing

Good one

is captioned, "Jubilation: Palestinians swim at a previously forbidden beach in the Gaza Strip."

PICTURE OF APARTHEID WALL WRITES: "
"You've already spammed this propaganda pic several times Beck-o"

BECKY: I posted it once before, and it was censored. Can you imagine? censoring a photo of a beach? However I noticed that YOU posted your propanda pic right after you called my pic "propaganda."

The photo you posted is of Israel's security barrier which it had to install at great expense due to the 120 plus suicide bomb atttacks by various Palestinian terror groups. The WALL part of the barrier is an ANTI-SNIPER BARRIER because some Palestinians like to get up on rooftops and shoot randomly over the fence into Israeli civilian areas---killing innocent citizens if possible.

Too bad they couldn't just implement the Oslo Accords instead!!!

(BTW here is the OTHER censored photo)

Hmmmm

More on israeli terror

Didn't you get the Talking Point on the "wall?" Most of the barrier isn't a wall at all, but a chain-link fence with concertina wire and watchtowers and ditches and stuff, much like the fence shown above. These Jew-haters make such a stink over nothing!

Is that it saves lives. There has been a reduction in casualties (up to 85%) since it has been built. It is temporary, the location is negotiable, but most importantly it saves lives. That should be everyone's priority.

See how pretty and peaceful it is? Why, I bet there's even a beach somewhere nearby!

Is that it saves lives. There has been a reduction in casualties (up to 85%) since it has been built. It is temporary, the location is negotiable, but most importantly it saves lives. That should be everyone's priority.

How many lives it saves versus how many it ends up destroying remains to be tallied, and your forecast on this isn't worth a hair off my balls

From the lead article: "strawberries.... were thrown away or left to rot."

Why are they throwing out food when the lead article reports that people are strving?