A Palestinian farmer in Beit Lahiya holds a picture perfect strawberry, several tons of which have gone to waste this month in the face of an ongoing Israeli economic closure of Gaza.
posted by Laila @ Friday, February 03, 2006
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Friday, February 03, 2006
A Palestinian farmer in Beit Lahiya holds a picture perfect strawberry, several tons of which have gone to waste this month in the face of an ongoing Israeli economic closure of Gaza.
3 Comments:
Shlofn
if you bothered to read the link I provided to the article i wrote for aljazeera in length on the subject, it addresses this issue.
Walls, crossings, can be demolished. What goes up by the hand of human beings can come down very easily. It has to do with good will from both,the Palestinians and the Isarelis. As long as there is violence coming from one side the answer will be violence by the other side........and the ones that pay are the people, the plain people who only want to work and live in peace with each other...................
Raul,
believe me, that is what Palestinians in Gaza want-their own port, freedom of access to export and import goods, less dependence on Israel, etc. I'll start with the last first-Sara Roy put it best in her book, "the de-development of the Palestinian economy", in which she talks about the intentional Israeli policy of debilitating the Palestinian economy and making i dependent on the Israeli one, as a lever of power and control.
As for the port, this is something Palestinians have been asking for-a sea port project was frozen in 2001, especially most rcently since the Israeli disengagement, but the Israeli government has not agreed to this. So we remain under their "mercy" nad having o deal with the only commercial crossing-Karni. There are some goods that do come through Egypt's Rafah Crossing, mainly Egyptian goods, but as Rattu pointed out, its not equipped to be a commercial port.
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