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Originally Posted by raj
but what do u say to the looting that happened, people looted the greenhouses in which palestine people used to work. if they were intact they would have been the life line of ghaza. BTW does anyone know that the greenhouses were brought by an american jew from the settlers before they left, so that they can be transferred to the palestine people.
AMLED how do u justify this. -raj
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Justify the unjustifiable?
You’d have to be a lawyer, politician or a member of the blinkers weariig media to do so, maybe a Michael Moore could carrry it off, I’m none of those.
The scenes of wanton destruction, arson and looting only solidified my own impression of the poor downtrodden Palestinians.
The sight of Abbas’s uniformed and armed police walking around the rampaging crowd with their hands in their pockets while all this was happening, did the same in regards to the Palestinian National Authority!
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Palestinians sign export deal for Gaza greenhouse produce
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
PalTrade, the Palestinian company in charge of running the greenhouses that the Palestinians will inherit from Gaza evacuees, recently signed its first export agreement for the produce slated to be grown there.
The produce will be marketed via the Israeli firm Agrexco, which handles most of Israel's agricultural exports. Palestinian farmers in the Gaza Strip already export under a special brand name that Agrexco launched for this purpose, and this brand will apparently be used for the new venture as well.
Basel Jabbar, who is running the greenhouse project on PalTrade's behalf, told Haaretz that the Palestinians hope to complete planting the greenhouses by September 29 in order to begin harvesting in November. He said that PalTrade will run the greenhouses itself for one planting cycle, and then decide whether or not to privatize them.
Initially, Jabbar said, he hopes to employ some 3,800 workers in the greenhouses, the number employed under Israeli ownership. Later, he plans to expand the growing area from the current 2,400 dunams to 4,000 dunams. "Our assessment is that this area can produce an output of $100 million, of which $70 million will be for Israeli consumption and $30 million for export overseas," he said.
Under Israeli ownership, the greenhouses employed many Palestinian workers, and PalTrade plans to hire the most knowledgeable and experienced of these to manage the greenhouses. Other workers, Jabbar said, "will be recruited according to clear quotas for those who need work more than others, mainly those with large families."
Jabbar said that the venture could be a huge boon to the Gaza economy, but only if Israel allows the produce to leave Gaza in a timely fashion. "A two-day delay could cause everything to be lost," he said. "A passage between Gaza and the West Bank and crossings to Egypt are also critical. If this doesn't happen, we'll lose all the money invested here."
PalTrade is a private company set up by leading Palestinian businessmen under the auspices of the Palestinian Finance Ministry in order to support the establishment of new private companies. The greenhouses were purchased from the settlers by the Economic Cooperation Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, with money raised from private American donors. They are expected to be formally transferred to the Palestinians within a few weeks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/616580.html
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That they looted and vandelized the greenhouse complex that was meant to provide employment and hard needed foreign currency to the destitute Authority exchequer come as no surprise, as a mob while in possession of many heads is bereft of any common sense.