Scenes from the Gaza City library : Cleveland IMC (((i)))

Palestinian boys and girls read the library of the Al-Qattan (recreation) Centre for Children in Gaza City on June 18, 2009.

Just like the Warsaw ghetto

Well, the one on the right looks like he might be a little peckish perhaps.

huge facility! In heavy use, loaded with books that reach to the near walls!
Excellent work here.
Do they allow cotton candy in the liebrary?

"liebrary"
by Palestinians hang their heads in shame Sunday, Jun. 21, 2009 at 2:30 PM

It can't even spell, but it thinks it's a master of the pun. Palestinians can do no wrong with such useless fuckwits backing them.

This was underwritten by Abdel Mohsin Qattan's foundation and is one of the leading cultural and educational institutions in the Palestinian territories, with an annual budget of over 2.2 million dollars, almost entirely underwritten by the Al-Qattan Charitable Trust, and over 70 staff working in Ramallah, Gaza City and London. The center, founded in the 1990s by a wealthy Palestinian businessman of the Qattan family, originally from Jaffa, provides children in educational and artistic activities during the summer holidays.

We never see this elsewhere and particularly not in the Big Oil funded mainstream media.

For all the talk of "Big Oil", none of the fuckwits want to give up their computers (created with oil, shipped with the help of oil, etc) or shut down the Collective. They're talkers, useless lip flappers, they want attention, but they don't actually want to walk the walk.

Ma'an Poll of Palestinians:96% have a telephone, 57% live in a households with a computer, 32% have internet

Bethlehem - Ma'an Exclusive - Sixty-one percent of Palestinians are optimistic about Hamas-Fatah reconciliation and 70% say they will vote in elections scheduled for next year, according to a new opinion poll commissioned by Ma'an.

The poll was carried out, in partnership with the Palestinian Center for Research and Cultural Dialogue (PCRD), in anticipation of the upcoming Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo in July. The poll shows that, even in the aftermath of the Israeli attack on Gaza, a form of optimism prevails in the Palestinian street.

With a sample size of 1360 adults (850 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, 510 in Gaza), the poll posed questions about a wide range of issues including democracy in Palestinian society, good governance, political issues, and media. The survey was carried out from 12-14 March 2009.

The poll showed that 48% of respondents believe that the most important feature of democracy is the ability to change the government through elections. Twenty-nine percent said that "freedom to criticize rulers" is the second most important feature of democracy.

In addition:

. 22.0% of the respondents believe that the status of democracy in Palestine is good, whereas 45.0% believe the opposite.

. When asked on the relationship between democracy and religion, 19.0% believe the two are contradictory, whereas 36.5% believe they are conciliatory, 18.5% complementary. 26% believe there is no relationship between them.

The poll also asked Palestinians their views on elections and the political system:

. 45% of the respondents reveal that the mixed system (proportional representation and constituencies) is the best electoral system in Palestine as opposed to 21.0% who believe that the proportional representation is the best electoral system. . 70% of the respondents say they will cast their ballot in the next elections. . 60% believe that the next elections will be impartial. . 61% say they are optimistic regarding the intra-Palestinian dialogue in Cairo.

Also, 29.3% of the respondents said they support Fatah, compared to 17.5% who said they support Hamas. 34.2% said they support none of the political parties.

Support for the political factions broke down as follows:

1. Fatah 29.3% 2. Hamas 17.5% 3. Unaffiliated nationalists 6.1% 4. Unaffiliated Islamists 3.8% 5. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) 3% 6. Islamic Jihad 2.2% 7. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) 1% 8. Palestinian National Initiative (PNI - Al-Mubadara) 1.6% 9. Palestinian People's Party (PPP) 1% 10. None of the political parties 34.2%

The poll also showed a high degree of support for increased transparency in the Palestinian political system. For example, 75.0% believe that candidates in the next elections are obliged to disclose the financial resources used to pay for their campaign. 58% believe that it is their right to have access to the annual budget of the Palestinian government.

A near majority of 46.3% said they had heard or learned about people who bribed Palestinian officials in exchange for services; 50.7% said they had not.

Only 9.8% said civil society groups play a large role in monitoring the Palestinian Authority and holding it accountable, compared to 30.4% who believe that these groups play a small or very small role regarding this matter.

Regarding media, Al-Jazeera was the most-watched television news source (55%), followed by followed by Al-Arabiya (11%) Hamas' Al-Aqsa (10%), and the PA's Palestine TV (9% ).

Among the respondents, 96% have a telephone, 57% live in a households with a computer, 32% have internet, 73% have a radio, 93% have a satellite dish, and 26% have an antenna for local TV stations.

The poll also addressed Ma'an's reach as a news network.

. 22.9% state that they have already listened to Maan radio network.

. Ma'an's website is the most browsed sites among 15 international and local sites (68%) followed by that of Al-Jazeera (58%), then Al-Quds daily newspaper site (55%). These percentages include those who said they browse these sites to a very high degree, to a high degree, and to a moderate degree.

. 73% of those who use the internet in Palestine browse Ma'an's website.

. 94% of those who browse Ma'an's website state that its form and content either highly appropriate or appropriate.

. 63% of the respondents who browse Ma'an website believe it is unaffiliated to a political party, whereas 23% believe the opposite, and 15% do not know.

Ma'an Poll of Palestinians:96% have a telephone, 57% live in a households with a computer, 32% have internet

They enjoy the water and power systems that are shot up and they enjoy the pleantiful commerce and trade and free travel too.
Life is wonderful in Potimkin land.

There is only one Israeli left in Gaza- his name is Gilad Shalit

Gaza isn't occupied; its imprisoned by the walls and razor wire of Israel.

More Palestinian Myths. Gaza is "occupied" although without Occupiers!

Gaza isn't occipied anymore that any open air prison is occupied by the heavy infiltration of israeli informents and death squads from Fatah who somehow managed to recieve huge amounts of guns and ammo through the tight border security.
There were those"masked gunmen" would do drive-bys at Hamas.
This shit is so deep.

Hamassed the cover of the Israeli incursion to consoldate power by assasinating or knee capping any opposition. Gaza is occupied by Hamas, not Israel.

what we have here is a hissy fit because the Palestinians voted for Hamas.
Now they assassinate Hamas leaders because Israel wanted their stooges of thugs; the Fatah.
Thugs israel armed and then pointed to as a 'civil war'.

They reject the simple truth! Hamas is an oppressive, theocratic, fascistic entity. Its just the simple truth.

of course you reject it
Israel can never accept any blame under any circumstances and it's a great weakness as it makes your arguments laughable.
Swimming in thick denial and everyone can see it.
Hamas was *Elected* you poor klown. Stop having a hissy fit about it and stop assassinating their leadership. Unless you believe in government by assassination.

Who does it think it's fooling?

Yada is crazed
by because it's a psychopath Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 at 10:15 PM

and the snot-bot replies are like and old squeal from a broken wheel.
No one cares what you post, Yada, not even you. you're noise without a topic.
Like this thread without a grasp on reality.

The averageHamas employee makes $50,000 a yera. The average Gazan lives on 2 dollars a day. Hamas exists as a ruling elite and oppresses its own people.

See:

http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11274743.html

Hamas's bump-set-spike humanitarian media circuses are getting a touch predictable. Last November they very deliberately laid the groundwork for a concentrated media campaign against Israel:

Hamas already knows that they can count on the UN and the AP (and the UN and the AP) and Reuters and the Red Cross to blame Israel for their intentionally-manufactured humanitarian disaster. Now their demonization efforts are set to go global.
Less than a week later they started refusing scheduled fuel shipments, ramped up their theft of fuel from hospitals for terrorism ops, and shut down their power generator. And like clockwork the UN rushed to condemn Israel as media report after media report seized on the most absurd pretexts to fabricate a massive humanitarian crisis.

Their second verse bears a striking similarity to the first:

This past Monday, gas stations in Gaza apparently decided to hold a "protest strike" in which they refused to sell fuel to the local populace. At the same time, a program on Hamas radio was broadcast urging Gazans to call in with suggestions for alternative means of transportation to cars and buses. Sure enough, the next day saw several news stories coming out of Gaza reporting on the "fuel crisis" there, focusing on the travails of ordinary Gazans due to "months of restricted Israeli fuel supplies." A taxi driver comments to an AP reporter: "We are like street dogs looking for bones".... And then, on Wednesday, Gazan terror groups stage a carefully coordinated attack on the Nahal Oz fuel depot in which two Israeli civilian workers are killed... It is certainly a remarkable coincidence that an attack such as the one on the Nahal Oz depot - which must have taken weeks, if not months, of planning and preparation - should fall just two days after a seemingly spontaneous and independent strike by local gas station owners. Of course, one would have to believe in this case that the station owners were given the freedom to shut down by a Hamas government that carefully controls every other aspect of daily life in Gaza... Wednesday's attack conveniently took place just after the latest delivery for the Gaza power station had been completed...
And it appears that not everyone there is suffering from a lack of gasoline. China's Xinhua news agency seemed to stray from the approved script this week in registering complaints by station owners that Hamas was taking a cut of the fuel supplies before releasing the rest to the general public. "They seize the fuel to ensure that their cars will not stop and that [Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh's convoy will continue to work," one disgruntled driver told Xinhua, whose report also noticed that "instead of lining up for fuel supply, vehicles of Hamas police and security services bypass the long queues and go straight to the electric fuel pump." Certainly, the teams that continue to fire the Kassam rockets seem to have no problem finding gas for their vehicles

Lines like what we wrote before their last stunt - that "when Israel cuts off the Gaza Strip's fuel supply... Israelis will get blamed for refusing to supply gas to [Hamas] soldiers" - don't even qualify as fearless predictions as more. We're even inclined to suggest that there's absolutely nothing new about how Hamas deliberately deprived Gazans of fuel while stealing just enough for terrorism and getting the press to eagerly trumpet their hand-wringing anti-Israel propaganda.

But the way that rival Palestinian groups cooperated to murder the Israeli civilians who were supplying them with fuel even while they complained that Israel wasn't supplying them with enough fuel - that was kind of innovative.

References:
* Palestinians Going Global With Program To Demonize Israel For Deliberate, Hamas-Engineered Gaza Humanitarian Crisis (Updated: WaPo Hops On Board) [MR]
* UN Set To Blame Israel For Intentional, Hamas-Engineered Humanitarian Crisis In Gaza [MR]
* AP: Yup, Humanitarian Crisis Intentionally Caused By Hamas Is Still Israel's Fault [MR]
* UN And "Gaza Businessmen" Agree: It's Israel's Fault That Hamas Has Intentionally Created A Humanitarian Disaster In the Gaza Strip By Blocking Food and Medical Shipments [MR]
* Vulgar Palestinian Propaganda Succeeds with International Media - Again! [MR]
* Palestinians Intentionally Create Humanitarian Crisis, Red Cross and Reuters Parrot Their Claims [MR]
* PalArabs now blame Israel for every medical death in Gaza [Elder Of Ziyon]
* Palestinians Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Crises In Gaza By Refusing To Accept Israeli Fuel [MR]
* Hamas Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Crises In Gaza By Stealing Fuel From Hospitals For Their "Operations" Against Israel [MR]
* Palestinians Shut Down Generator To Create Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, UN Blames Israel [MR]
* UN Statement On Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Somehow Misses "Hamas Intentionally Causing It" Part [MR]
* UN: Gazans Have More Than Enough Food, But Lack Of Fruits And Vegetables Is A Humanitarian Crisis [MR]
* How Hamas fuels Gaza 'gas shortage' [JPost]
* Breaking: Two Israelis Murdered By Fatah, IJ Terrorists - While Supplying Fuel To Gaza (UPDATE: Israeli Towns Shelled For Hours Before And After Attack) [MR]

Previously:
* Hamas Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Disaster In Gaza - Now They're Shutting Down The Few Medical Clinics That Are Still Working
* Hamas Trying To Turn Gaza Into A Humanitarian Disaster - They're Stopping Gazans From Getting Medical Aid
* Palestinians Reject Israeli Humanitarian Efforts - Easier to Demonize Israel That Way

another shyster's scree, using far too many words to just plain lie about the devastation of Operation Cast Lead.
Don't worry, the evidence will come out despite the tight clamp on travel and open commucations from the residents.
IMC Palestine is down and nothing seems to get in or out but Israeli embedded reporting. All other reporters are targeted.

Anyone get the idea that this sheepdog is some bored security guard with an iphone? His posts have no substance, implying not just limited brain power, but limited web acess.
Yet he insists on the last word like a little baby.

Stamp your little feet. And howl. maybe mommy will buy you that candy bar. Keep trying. .

I knew it.
Same psychopathic MO but a bit more deluded as time and alcohol does its time tested job.
Funny how that works out.
Yeaa Isreal.

That was also posted by Aryan fecal matter. Who does it think it's fooling?

but I would more precisely label you as zionazi fecal matter.
Sometimes even you are right.

In the 'hood I bet that they WISH that they had libraries like that.

well at least in the 'hood here; one doesn't have to know where the bomb shelters are; more than the rest rooms.

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