Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Gaza a Ga-Ga!

PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE JEWISH WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA,
VIDEO HERE


Palestinian officials struggle to gain control over the chaos in Gaza.

Leader of the Islamic militant group Islamic Jihad, Nafez Azzam, second from right, and other unidentified representatives of his group, walks past the partially demolished synagog of the former Jewish settlement of Netzarim, in the central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005. Leaders of the Islamic Jihad said their group has no plans to disarm after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. (AP)

After massive celebrating, looting, drownings, torchings, shootings, and beatings, Palestinian forces are struggling today to bring order to the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian police Tuesday blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to impose order after chaotic celebrations of Israel's pullout from Gaza. The overwhelmed forces were unable to halt looting of the area's prized greenhouses.

The chaos raised new questions about the ability of Palestinian forces to impose order in Gaza. (Hmm.)

The greenhouses, left behind by Israel as part of a deal brokered by international mediators, are a centerpiece of Palestinian plans for rebuilding Gaza after 38 years of Israeli occupation. The Palestinian Authority hopes the high-tech greenhouses will provide jobs and export income for Gaza's shattered economy.

During a tour of Neve Dekalim, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia implored Palestinians to leave the structures intact, even as people scavenged through debris elsewhere in the settlement.

"These greenhouses are for the Palestinian people," he said. "We don't want anyone to touch or harm anything that can be useful for our people."

Just minutes away, crowds of looters in the Gadid settlement overwhelmed hundreds of guards trying to protect the greenhouses. Guards acknowledged that in many cases, they were unable to stop the looting.

He said about 80 percent of the greenhouses were still intact, but looters walked off with lighting fixtures, cables and wires. Many were undeterred by the police presence. Police said one man dropped his loot only after he was beaten by security forces.

Israel withdrew the last of its troops from Gaza early Monday, handing control of the coastal strip to the Palestinians. Celebrations frequently spun out of control, with Palestinians setting fire to debris and the few remaining buildings in empty settlements, and thousands of people rushing back and forth across the Egyptian border.
Looters scavenged for anything of value left by the Israelis.

Sept. 13, 2005. Palestinian police blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to impose law and order after chaotic celebrations of Israel's pullout from Gaza. (AP)

Crowds of looters in the Gadid settlement overwhelmed hundreds of guards!

Palestinian youths run towards a fence of the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 11, 2005. Thousands of Palestinians gathered excitedly on the edge of abandoned Jewish settlements in Gaza on Sunday, poised to rush in as the Israeli army prepared to get out following decades of occupation. (Reuters)

Deadly and chaotic scenes ensued as Palestinians took over the Gaza Strip for the first time, yesterday:

"It is time for our people to rejoice and to put an end to the tragedies, sadness and suffering," Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said as he toured the ruins of the former settlement of Dugit in the north of the territory.

"We have made the first steps on the road to realising our aspirations and we must continue with our journey," he added.

The day was tinged with tragedy, however, as five Palestinians drowned in once-forbidden seas off Gaza while another was killed on the border with Egypt.

Smoke spewed into the air from burning rubbish in former settlements as enormous national flags fluttered from telegraph poles while mobs of youths poured in, ransacking, looting and torching synagogues and other buildings.

The green banner of Islamic militant group Hamas, which has declared the pullout a victory for its five-year campaign of violence, was hoisted above a ransacked synagogue in Neve Dekalim, once the largest Gaza settlements.

One Palestinian was shot dead as he approached a security fence while dozens of youngsters entered no-man's land on the Egyptian side after toppling the barbed wire fence on top of a concrete wall that marks the frontier.

Egyptian authorities, denied responsibility for the shooting.
Little Green Footballs had more on the Gaza "celebrations", yesterday.
Powerline also mentioned the chaos in Gaza this morning.
La Shawn Barber has an interesting take on the Synagogue Burnings.

48 Comments:

Blogger Bruce said...

So what was stopping them from building their own greenhouses?

7:47 AM  
Blogger lawhawk said...

It was the crowd of people that were rushing to destroy the greenhouses and other buildings and infrastructure left by the Israelis.

7:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Y'know, it's said that the Muslim world gave us science and mathematics. I think it's only fair that we should lend it back to them for awhile.

7:52 AM  
Blogger Buckeye Beauford said...

"Lend it back to them?" Have we been hiding it?

7:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, it was the Arab world that gave us Science and Mathematics, NOT the Muslim world. That is, Sci & Math pre-date Islam.

7:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This people get $50 million a year directly from the U.S.

8:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The grammar, it is hard.

I meant..."These people get $50 million a year directly from the U.S." I believe they have other funding sources as well. The population has descended into barbarity.

As to science, a grossly disportionate number of Nobel Prize winners in mathematics and science are Jewish, something like 25%. Muslim Nobel Prize winners are scarcer then hen's teeth but we aren't supposed to notice that.

8:05 AM  
Blogger Mish said...

Err, it wasn't the Arabs, it was the Ottoman Turks (read Greeks) that preserved and advanced the knowledge of the ancient Greeks that would otherwise have been lost in the fall of Rome.

8:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope everyone can now see the wisdom of walling off islam?

The walls needs to be extended outside Israel.

8:06 AM  
Blogger Chris said...

As much as I admire and support Condi Rice and her future campaign for the Presidency, I am disappointed in the lack of criticism from State about the wanton destruction in Gaza. Especially in regards to the torching of the two synagogues.

However, this doesn't surprise me, and it probably doesn't surprise Rice. Gaza is a Hamas stronghold. Arafat's Fatah organization lost alot of influence here to the more ultramontaine Hamas movement.

Of course, once the Israelis have quit Gaza and most of the West Bank, Palestine will descend into mindless fratricide and civil war, despite the best efforts of Rice and diplomats throughout the world.

8:07 AM  
Blogger California Conservative said...

Freedom, baby. Now what?

8:18 AM  
Blogger Bruce said...

Here's an interesting database. Feel free to poke around a bit, but I put the startup page on the worst spendthrift governments: Gaza tops the list.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_bud_exp_gdp&int=-1

8:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

People are surprised by this? Let them continue to descend into chaos.

They're on the other side of the wall, let them smash their skulls into concrete all day if they choose.

The rest of the Western World continues moving forward, these people choose to move backwards.

It will take 2 to 3 generations for Arafat's Cult of Death to dissipate, and for children there to be raised normally, and not taught to hate and murder. If not, then they will continue to wallow in misery inperpetuity, and if that's fine with them, that's fine with me.

8:35 AM  
Blogger Yishai said...

Yes. As Charles at LGF says, "What lovely people! Let's give them a state!" Heh. Let's give them more money! Maybe that will civilize them. Sheesh.
What a double standard. If Jews destroyed two dozen mosques, you'd never hear the end of it! There would be riots in every Muslim dominated area! Oh, the humanity! Wait. Two dozen Jewish synagogues? F--- them.

8:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The greenhouses were left there as a gift to the Palestinians.

They were purchased by weathly Americans for the benefit of the Arabs (these Americans were Jewish).

9:30 AM  
Blogger jake-the-peg said...

We do not need another failed state. Every failed state is a direct threat to civilized nations.
We will need to step in here.

9:51 AM  
Blogger Clyde said...

These folks aren't half-bright, are they? FIVE drownings? They know the can't swim and they jump in the water anyway? Frickin' lemmings...

10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So my question is, will this be used as proof to stand firm against calls to give up the west bank?

This kind of thing could legitimate a policy of expelling Palestinians from the west bank into gaza, declaring them a state, and putting a healthy DMZ on the border.

10:28 AM  
Blogger Broadlighter said...

Destroy the Synagogues? Why not? It's their land now and they get to do what they want with it.

...And we get to watch and take note.

11:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thousands of gallons of ink about "alleged" Koran desecration but not a word on synagogue burnings?

12:21 PM  
Blogger pragmatist said...

My favorite was the MSM crap
about all the "fireworks" used
in the "celebrations".

Interesting names for bullets.

Maybe the MSM will report that
" ... protesters were injured
by rubber fireworks ..." next
time that happens.

Yeah, right.

12:49 PM  
Blogger jaed said...

I am disappointed in the lack of criticism from State about the wanton destruction in Gaza

It may be just as well, given that criticism from State would more likely than not be aimed at Israel for "permitting the destruction" or "provoking civil disorder" or some such formulation. No, that wouldn't make sense... and yes, I expect people to start saying it anyway. Blaming Israel is a spinal reflex for some.

1:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just to clarify for the non-historians, it was Arab Muslims that preserved much of ancient Greek philosophy (upon which most of classical Islamic philosophy is based). The Ottomans did many great things, especially in architecture, but by the time they arrived on the European scene in force during the 14th century, Greek philosophy, especially Aristotlean philosophy had long been revived. It is worth reflecting on the fact that the Greek empire of the Byzantines was less interested in classical philosophy than their Arab Muslim rivals. It is also worth reflecting on the fact that the civilizational divide between Byzantium and Rome was so great that Western Europe's cultural flowering, which began in earnest during the 12th century, owes more to its contact with the Jews and Muslims of the Caliphate than with Eastern Christendom.

11:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I should also have mentioned in my previous post that it was Arab Muslims who passed on to Christendom the concept of zero (which they took from Indic civilization--which had millennia-long contact with what we call the Middle East--at least as far back as the Dilmun Civilization). Classical Arab civilization also has the distinction of being the first to develop algebraic systems. (It should be remembered that the word "algebra" comes from the first word--"al-jabr"--of a seminal 9th century Arab mathematics text that classifies and provides solutions for quadratic equations and explicates a system for completing the square.) To steal shamelessly from Professor Lewis, "What went wrong?"

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