Comments on: Flaunting it http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/27/5671 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:07:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cynic http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/27/5671/comment-page-1#comment-34554 Cynic Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:15:52 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5671#comment-34554 <em>The Palestinian upper economic and political class cares nothing for its own people. –In its fourteen-year rule of the West Bank, the PA has focused on looting it rather than on raising living standards and providing good government.</em> Heh! Just change names and places and that could be said about the South African government as well. Alex, Until 2000 Saturdays in Jenin were crowded with Israeli shoppers buying stuff, fixing cars, eating in restaurants. During the week Northern Israel was swarming with Palestinian taxis, trucks and private cars. They were on a roll and didn't know it. The Palestinian upper economic and political class cares nothing for its own people.
–In its fourteen-year rule of the West Bank, the PA has focused on looting it rather than on raising living standards and providing good government.

Heh! Just change names and places and that could be said about the South African government as well.

Alex,
Until 2000 Saturdays in Jenin were crowded with Israeli shoppers buying stuff, fixing cars, eating in restaurants.
During the week Northern Israel was swarming with Palestinian taxis, trucks and private cars. They were on a roll and didn’t know it.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2008/11/27/5671/comment-page-1#comment-34550 Alex Bensky Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:43:27 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5671#comment-34550 There's even more. I lived for the better part of two years on a kibbutz southeast of Haifa, on the route from the West Bank. I'd often catch a bus or jitney coming from the territories. There might be an occasional identity check but basically access to Haifa, its shops, and its jobs, was easy. After nineteen years of less than benign neglect under Jordan, the West Bank had one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. By every social reckoning--education, health, infrasturcture--the West Bank and to a slightly lesser extent Gaza enjoyed an ever-increasing growth in both economy and social well-being. And the Palestinians, the leadership and the rank and file, threw it away, threw it away happily, never letting their self-interest interfere with their desire to destroy Israel. Let the enjoy the fruits of their labors. There’s even more. I lived for the better part of two years on a kibbutz southeast of Haifa, on the route from the West Bank. I’d often catch a bus or jitney coming from the territories. There might be an occasional identity check but basically access to Haifa, its shops, and its jobs, was easy.

After nineteen years of less than benign neglect under Jordan, the West Bank had one of the highest economic growth rates in the world. By every social reckoning–education, health, infrasturcture–the West Bank and to a slightly lesser extent Gaza enjoyed an ever-increasing growth in both economy and social well-being.

And the Palestinians, the leadership and the rank and file, threw it away, threw it away happily, never letting their self-interest interfere with their desire to destroy Israel.

Let the enjoy the fruits of their labors.

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