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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (10932)	5/15/2006 6:18:27 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Respond to of 22250

PALESTINIANS FINDING NEW WAYS TO SURVIVE US-ISRAEL SIEGE SCOTT WILSON, WASHINGTON POST - As their government withers without international aid, Palestinians are tailoring modest lives to desperate times. Bartering, borrowing and doing without, thousands of people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are improvising their way through a deepening financial crisis with help from native sons, virtual strangers and each other. . . Families who live here in old stone homes along one-lane streets are paring back spending, selling off assets and heirlooms, running up large tabs at corner markets and worrying about the weeks ahead. Construction sites sit abandoned, vegetable markets are empty. But now, the people here say, a new set of social rules is taking hold. A family with enough money to prepare a large dinner one night will share a dish or two with neighbors. Taxi drivers decline to collect fares. Civil servants with other sources of income -- grown children, usually, in other parts of the world -- ask that their monthly payments from Jubran be given to those who need it more. washingtonpost.com 05/11/AR2006051102089_pf.html

To: sea_urchin who wrote (10932)	5/17/2006 4:34:08 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: there is Israel, already accused by some as the invisible hand behind the Taba and Sharm El-Sheikh bombings I'm surprised to hear that. I thought, like 9/11, 7/11 and Madrid, it was Al Qaeda. I'm no more surprised than you... What I found remarkable, however, is that the accusation of Israel as the mastermind of terrorist attacks in Egypt is published --uncensored-- in the Al Ahram weekly, Egypt's litterati magazine. I've been a regular reader of Al Ahram for many years, hence I know that its editorialists usually, dutifully, refrain from openly accusing Israel of perpetrating terrorist bloodshed in Egypt --the only country with Jordan that signed a peace treaty with Israel... Gus