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Scavenging in the Gaza Strip

A young Palestinian boy carries a bag with scavenged plastic on a dump site outside Gaza City on Nov. 8, 2012. The site is just a few hundred meters away from the Israeli border and the workers have to be careful not to come too close or they fear they could come under Israeli fire. With a day's work the scavengers earn the equivalent of approximately 1 Euro or about $1.27.

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This is what Israel has reduced the Palestinian children to do.They are the rogue nuclear state!

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Reply#1 - Fri Nov 9, 2012 4:41 AM EST

All Americans need to step away from the propaganda that our media is filling our heads with and examine real hard, our relationship with Israel...Remember the U.S.S.Liberty!!!!

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Reply#2 - Fri Nov 9, 2012 4:44 AM EST

Besieged Palestinian Gaza is an experiment in provocation. Stuff one and a half million people into a tiny space, stifle their access to water, electricity, food and medical treatment, destroy their livelihoods, and humiliate them regularly...and, surprise, surprise - they turn hostile. Now why would you want to make that experiment? Because the hostility you provoke is the whole point. Now under attack you can cast yourself as the victim, and call out the helicopter gunships and the F16 attack fighters and the heavy tanks and the guided missiles, and destroy yet more of the pathetic remains of infrastructure that the Palestinian state still has left. And then you can point to it as a hopeless case, unfit to govern itself, a terrorist state, a state with which you couldn't possibly reach an accommodation. And then you can carry on with business as usual, quietly stealing their homeland.

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Reply#3 - Fri Nov 9, 2012 5:28 AM EST

Since Imperial Rome, Jews have repeatedly brought the wrath of their neighbors down upon themselves with disastrous consequences. “Never again” is lost on Netanyahu's Israel. Blind to history, its malevolent behavior ensures “again” on a far grander scale. Abandoning Israel would force Israel to abandon its grandiose aspirations and thereby avert its destruction. There is no greater, no kinder, support that America could render to its Mideast ally.

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Reply#4 - Fri Nov 9, 2012 5:30 AM EST
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