Replies to post #453354 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[zab]

It has always been a bad place to live, especially for ordinary Palestine people who were just trying to find someplace to call home. Once again there is no official Palestine State, except this strip of property, and anyone who has had their eyes and ears open for the past 20 years have watched many times when tensions and squirminess's flared up.

Even in America we know of the bad areas of almost any big city, or just neighborhood's where life never gets any better.

Of course, Israel has never made it easy, they keep taking more land, and making it impossible for almost anyone to live in a normal life.

It is a touchy subject, and like anyone in America I have a few Jewish friends who are always ready to tell you, their side.

Another day in the life if any American, and anyone living in the world. There are never easy answers to the great issues of the day. I think that is why we all show up here each day. I am still trying my best to just transfer information from one source on the internet to another. Right now, my buddy's wife is still dealing with the aftermath of his death. Never an easy task, and I have done it twice. So much to do, and they were both professionals, but when your partner passes you still have to deal with a lot of things.

There is even a war going in Ukraine, and here in Chattanooga we have the task of construction almost everywhere. I live on a peninsula, but as soon as you come off of the point, we have a brand new 750 apartments, and 150 condominiums being built. There are many projects like this being built, you have to remember Volkswagen and all of its suppliers keep expanding. Jobs are plentiful, homes are not.

[brooklyn13]

The Gaza Strip is about 140 square miles, roughly twice the size of Washington, D.C, and is home to about 2 million people. By contrast, Manhattan Island, NYC, is about 22.5 square miles and is home to about 1.6 million people.

Putting the entrance and exit issues aside, I'm not sure how Gaza, then, is described as "some of the densest concentration of people in the world". I'm well aware that you didn't coin the phrase but still not sure what it means, exactly and how it's gotten so much traction.

[brooklyn13]

One more thing, then I'll be gone again, I promise.

If Egypt has closed its borders to the Gazans and is blockading the Strip, too, then it's hardly a Muslims vs Jews thing. However, if you take a look at Hamas' Charter, it calls for murdering Jews everywhere, not just in Israel, so maybe that's why they attacked Israel, but not Egypt, over all this.

There are a lot of things I don't want my tax money going for, also, but them's the lumps. We give Israel money, but it's mandated to be spent on American goods, mostly military stuff. So, like a lot of foreign aid, it's more like a money laundering situation - we give them public (taxpayer) money, they take a cut and then repatriate the money and it's turned into private industry profits.

America doesn't support Israel for the love of Jews. Israel apparently plays a crucial role for us in the Middle East and we're paying for those services.