Palestinian Priorities
If you're a Gaza Palestinian, you could use the greenhouses bought for you by American-Jewish philanthropists to, you know, grow food. Or you could take them apart piece by piece:
A week after they descended like locusts on the greenhouses that Jewish settlers nurtured in Gaza, looters continue to pillage what should be a prize asset for a fledgling Palestinian state...
The now-gutted greenhouses were gifts to the Palestinian people from U.S. philanthropists, who raised $14 million to buy them from departing settlers... Mortimer B. Zuckerman [said]... "We thought it was a chance to show the Palestinians that there were more benefits from cooperation than confrontation," Zuckerman said. "I'm just sad that they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. ... It's almost inexplicable."
Why would Palestinians destroy extensive, food-producing infrastructure left behind for them:
In the nearby Neveh Dekalim settlement, there were no soldiers to stop 29-year-old Samir Al-Najar and his eight-man crew from demolishing a half-acre greenhouse. Al-Najar insisted the land was his family's before Israel occupied it in 1967 and that he was reclaiming it.
This is what happens when you raise generations and generations of children on the idea that their land is being unjustly occupied, and that everything the Jews do to that land is a corruption that must be violently erased.
A week after they descended like locusts on the greenhouses that Jewish settlers nurtured in Gaza, looters continue to pillage what should be a prize asset for a fledgling Palestinian state...
The now-gutted greenhouses were gifts to the Palestinian people from U.S. philanthropists, who raised $14 million to buy them from departing settlers... Mortimer B. Zuckerman [said]... "We thought it was a chance to show the Palestinians that there were more benefits from cooperation than confrontation," Zuckerman said. "I'm just sad that they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. ... It's almost inexplicable."
Why would Palestinians destroy extensive, food-producing infrastructure left behind for them:
In the nearby Neveh Dekalim settlement, there were no soldiers to stop 29-year-old Samir Al-Najar and his eight-man crew from demolishing a half-acre greenhouse. Al-Najar insisted the land was his family's before Israel occupied it in 1967 and that he was reclaiming it.
This is what happens when you raise generations and generations of children on the idea that their land is being unjustly occupied, and that everything the Jews do to that land is a corruption that must be violently erased.
