funny!.....IslamoNazis building walls to keep IslamoNazis out!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Gaza blockade in reverse:
Hamas fortifies Egyptian border against Libyan infiltrators

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 11, 2011


Smuggled cars in Gaza, still with Libyan plates

While complaining to the world about the Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip, four days ago, Hamas began building fortifications to block the territory's western boundary with Egyptian Sinai, debkafile's military sources report.  Hamas is said to be anxious to ward off the spillover of post-revolutionary chaos from Egypt and Sinai into the Gaza Strip and curtail the new influx of fighters and smugglers from Libya and Sinai Bedouin affiliated with al Qaeda. These groups have gone into the smuggling tunnel business on their own account and are causing mayhem.

These infiltrators are being housed by the "Army of Islam" (Al Qaeda affiliates) in the Gaza Strip and provided with shelter and food in the refugee camps around Gaza City. Hamas blames them for the resurgence of rocket fire into Israel in violation of the informal ceasefire agreed with Israel four months ago.

Saturday, July 9, three Qassam missiles were fired at Ashkelon and the Eshkol district, exploding on vacant ground.

Our sources report that a work force, building materials and equipment are working overtime to throw up a fortified earthworks barrier 10-12 meters high and 14 kilometers long, running from the Rafah crossing up to the Mediterranean 50 meters inside Gaza territory. The side facing Egypt is densely cloaked with barbed wire to stop climbers. Earthmoving equipment is flattening its top surface, presumably for watchtowers.

By Monday, July 11, the fortifications were finished in the border town of Rafah and work was proceeding further west in the area of Hamas's arms smuggling tunnels.

A bizarre situation has developed:  while Hamas continues its smuggling operations underground, illicitly importing munitions, rockets and explosives for terrorist use, on the surface, it is putting in place a mechanism for blockading its own border.

In June, the Palestinian fundamentalists were dismayed to discover that they had company in burrowing underground tunnels for contraband into the Gaza Strip: an assortment of ex-Libyan army fighters and Libyan rebels, on the one hand, and Sinai Bedouin gangs who sought to end their dependence on Hamas tunnels and had struck out on their own.

The Libyans had discovered the Middle East smuggling racket of goods and arms to be a lot more profitable than fighting each other. They have turned rebel-held eastern provinces of Libya into a large wholesale depot for equipment and merchandise smuggled from the Far East and Europe. The goods are loaded at Benghazi and Tobruk aboard ships which are unloaded in Egypt - where law and order has collapsed - and transported to Sinai and onto the Gaza Strip.

debkafile reports from sources familiar with the situation in the Gaza Strip report around a thousand shiny new Kia cars with Libyan number plates currently stocked in the Gaza Strip awaiting buyers in Arab countries.

Hamas encouraged the traffic at first, because the smuggled cars provided a conduit for anti-tank and anti-air missiles. But then, they when they saw the cars arriving with former Libyan fighters eager to line up with the Army of Islam, they decided to cut their losses and put a stop to it.

Hamas now finds the mafia shaping up between the Libyan intruders in flight from the war racking their country and al-Qaeda affiliates in Gaza and Sinai as a threat to its rule in the Gaza Strip as well as potentially sabotaging its unofficial truce with the Israeli Defense Forces.

[Xavier_Onassis]

ebkafile reports from sources familiar with the situation in the Gaza Strip report around a thousand shiny new Kia cars with Libyan number plates currently stocked in the Gaza Strip awaiting buyers in Arab countries.
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So, how are they going to get cars out of Gaza into any Arab country? Gaza is blockaded from the sea and on every border by Israel.

[Christians4LessGvt]

So, how are they going to get cars out of Gaza into any Arab country?
Gaza is blockaded from the sea and on every border by Israel.

July 5, 2011
Israel's Easing of Blockade Helps Gaza's Economy
Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press

Israel eased its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory a year ago and now
allows virtually all consumer goods in, meaning there are no longer acute shortages of
foods or basic household items. Tiny construction projects have begun sprouting up,
and Gaza is awash in big ticket items such as cars and refrigerators.

http://www.realclearworld.com/2011/07/05/israels_easing_of_blockade_helps_gazas_economy_125239.html

[Plane]

Difficult to imagine caos spilling >into< Gaza from anywhere.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Gaza is not particularly chaotic. It is simply poor. A few people have everything, most people are among the poorest in the world.

It is only fair for the Israelis to allow them to rebuild.

I still wonder how the cars could get out of Gaza without Israeli cooperation or collusion.

[Christians4LessGvt]

I still wonder how the cars could get out of Gaza without Israeli cooperation or collusion.

I have posted two sources saying the new shiny cars are there.
You on the other hand say "only a few people have any money" there and they cant export the cars.
That does not square up....
Why would all the new shiny cars be there if almost no one there could afford them and
as you seem to be implying they cant export the cars to other Arab countries?

[Christians4LessGvt]

XO part of the problem is also that PA and Hamas cant agree
on how to manage the new car industry...
the people of Gaza are the losers because of the their own leaders
just like we are in the good ole USA

Israel allows new cars into Gaza

[Christians4LessGvt]

What the Gaza Strip really needs

By: Juliane Von Mittelstaedt | Published: July 10, 2011

The Gaza Strip flotilla is stuck in Greece, blocked by the coast guard. Activists are increasingly unlikely to make it to Gaza,
but questions remain. Do people there really need 3,000 tons of aid supplies? Does Israel's blockade make the lives of
the 1.7 million residents there so unbearable that health, security and the well-being of society are endangered?
Debate over these questions has become increasingly heated in recent weeks, but everyone has a different answer.

In Israel's opinion, of course there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. To prove it, the country releases rows of numbers
and statistics. For example, they say that imports have increased by 87 percent since the blockade was eased a year
ago, and that more than 15,000 sick people and their attendants have been allowed to travel from Gaza to Israel and
the West Bank.

Israel has also brought in 1,271 cars, almost 28,000 tons of electrical equipment and 163,000 tons of building materials.
The list of things permitted for import also now includes bonzai trees, chandeliers, ice cream machines and printing presses.
These figures have been released by the Israeli Defence Ministry. They are used to back the Israeli argument - and they do
sound convincing. But do they hold up? With a population of 1.7 million people, it means a new car for one in every 1,337
residents, and one new electrical device per family. Meanwhile, after years of the blockade, demand is enormous.

Anyone who travels through Gaza sees police officers on chic white BMW motorcycles and mountains of
watermelons, tomatoes and peaches piled up in front of stores. Brand-new cars drive through the streets,
and a five-star hotel and shopping centre are scheduled to open soon. New restaurants and small recreation
parks dot the beach.

Indeed, at first glance, there is no humanitarian crisis.

DOES GAZA NEED SUPPLIES?

"Of course there is a humanitarian crisis," says Ramadan al-Hayek, general secretary on a committee to
end the blockade. "About 120,000 workers have no job," he says, "more than 300 sick people have died
due to insufficient medical supplies, and another 200 died in the tunnels." Al-Hayek is standing beneath
a memorial to the nine Turks who died in the Israeli operation against an aid flotilla last year. A nearly
10-meter high cement tower crowned with an iron globe, it's not exactly evidence of a cement shortage.

http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/10-Jul-2011/What-the-Gaza-Strip-really-needs

[Xavier_Onassis]

Why would all the new shiny cars be there if almost no one there could afford them and
as you seem to be implying they cant export the cars to other Arab countries?

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The cars were stolen, and therefore rather cheap.
Again, how can they be sold in any other Arab country unless the Israelis allow them to be delivered to an Arab country?

I am not implying anything. But they cannot sell cars in Arab countries unless they can deliver them there. That is an obvious fact. To do this requires Israeli cooperation. Israel contrils everything that goes in and out of Gaza bu land and sea, and there is no airport. Israel destroyed that.


Hamas is a rather corrupt organization, more corrupt than the PLO that runs the West Bank, and Hamas is run by fanatics. Israel is also run by a fanatic.