Palestinian unemployment blamed on Israel

GENEVA, Switzerland, June 12 (UPI) -- The Arab League's representative to the United Nations blamed the rising Palestinian unemployment rate
on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Ambassador Saad al-Fararji said at a forum on the sidelines of the annual conference of the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, the jobless rate in the Palestinian territories has risen as high as 86 percent, KUNA, the Kuwait News Agency, reported Friday.
Fararj said at the forum, which was aimed at expressing solidarity with Palestinian workers, the poor job market

is the result of dangerous and unhealthy conditions created by the occupying Israeli forces. He said the conditions worsen sentiments of frustration and disappointment among Palestinians and undermine attempts at peace.

It does not matter that Hamas is running the place and is willing to starve their own people just to make sure that they have the weapons to kill the Jews. The Gates Foundation paid millions of dollars to the Israelis to leave the hot houses intact. They destroyed them. They are smuggling in everything that they need from Egypt, probably with Egypt's help.

Count Palau as “fear-gripped”, too

The Obama administration may be celebrating the agreement with Palau that gets 13 of the al-Qaeda-trained Uighurs out of Gitmo, but the Palauans have a much different reaction to the news. Jake Tapper reports that the editor of Palau’s main newspaper gets accosted on the street by angry citizens demanding to know what idiot thought bringing violent Muslim separatists into their tourist haven was a good idea:

The decision by Johnson Toribiong, president of the obscure Pacific nation of Palau, to take in up to 13 Uighurs — Muslim Chinese — currently being held at Guantanamo is meeting some resistance from the general population.

As ABC News’ polling director Gary Langer points out, proportional to population, sending 13 Uighurs to Palau is like sending 188,993 Uighurs to the United States.

The Associated Press reports that Fermin Nariang, editor of the Palau newspaper Island Times, has “been stopped in the streets of the capital Koror by locals venting their anger. ‘This is a very small country … and some are saying if the whole world doesn’t want these folks, why are we taking them?’ Nariang said. The government has ‘fumbled the ball on this one.’”

Palau President Johnson Toribiong explained his decision to grant the Uighurs entry as traditional hospitality, but public opinion has appeared overwhelmingly negative. Some complained Friday that the government failed to consult the people.

“I totally disagree” with allowing the Uighurs onto Palau, Natalia Baulis, a 30-year-old mother of two, told The Associated Press by telephone.

“It’s good to be humanitarian and all, but still these people … to me are scary,” she said. …

The newspaper quoted islander Debedebk Mongami as saying, “I’m also afraid this news is going to scare the tourists who plan to come to Palau.”

Wage war on the West -your reward is paradise in this life, AND the next. Wow. I hope recruitment doesn’t go up too much. Sounds like a ticket out of poverty.

We need to stop capturing these guys. I say take no prisoners, just kill them all. This is the only way that the world will be safe from these people.

Lawyers: Israel uses uranium in Gaza offensive

Lawyers investigating possible war crimes by Israel in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip Thursday said the Jewish state used uranium in recent offensive on the blockaded territory.

Findings indicated that Israel heavily used uranium materials in its war in Gaza, Haitham Manna of the International Coalition for Trying Israeli War Criminals told a news conference in Gaza city.

At first, a French lab "asked us to obtain license from Ukraine because they believed the samples were obtained from a place hit by Chernobyl accident due to the high amount of Uranium that were found," Manna told Xinhua.

"We provided the labs with GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates for the cites and images from the scenes where we collected the samples," he added.

The samples were collected from the Gaza Strip after Israel ended a three-week offensive on Jan. 18 to check if they contained prohibited weapons.

Some of the results that French, Italian and British labs released showed that "the amount of depleted uranium in the areas of the samples were more than 75 tons and this is a very dangerous percentage for the overcrowded places in Gaza," Manna said.

About 25 samples were handed to the labs, including air filters of Palestinian ambulances and fragments of weapons collected from Gaza-Egypt border area and northeast Gaza city.

In a addition to the uranium, carcinogen materials and asbestos dust were found in the air in the Gaza Strip.

Manna and Norwegian lawyers have been working to sue Israel for war crimes they say the Jewish state committed during Operation Cast Lead between Dec. 27, 2008 and Jan. 18, 2009.

More than 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed during the Israeli offensive and thousands of houses, infrastructure and governmental buildings were destroyed by Israeli raids.

He said his group "has been acting as a party, gathering evidences and submitting them to investigation panels."

A copy of the results were given to the South African persecutor Richard Goldstone who leads a UN mission to investigate possible war crimes in Gaza.

Gaza would never have been attacked if the muslims would stop trying to kill the Jews. The UN is nothing but an anti-semitic organization.

New fuel pipeline built between Israel, Gaza

An Israeli construction team Thursday finished its work on a new pipeline for the transfer of fuel and natural gas from Israel to the Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement sent to Xinhua.

The decision to build the pipeline was made in accordance with decisions made by the Israeli government, following security assessments and as a result of the coordination between Israel's Civil Administration and the Palestinian side, said the statement.

The IDF will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, it added. Israel imposed a tight blockade on Gaza after Hamas, a Palestinian militant group pledges to the Jewish state's destruction, seized control of the coastal territory in June 2007.

Under the siege, only essential humanitarian goods are allowed into the impoverished enclave, home to some 1.4 million population.

I wonder how long it will be before the arab muslims blow up the pipeline? I give it less than a year.