"We have nothing! Potatoes? What potatoes?"
A Danish reporter finds that in Gaza, the victimhood propaganda is as much in abundance as the foodstuffs. Poor, Starving Palestinians Update: "Danish report from Gaza: 'Where's the humanitarian crisis?,'" from Elder of Ziyon, June 2 (thanks to Steven):
Danish reporter Steffen Jensen visits Gaza to see how bad things are, given that the entire world is in an uproar over the humanitarian crisis there (translated):
Judging from the media, the situation in Gaza is desperate, everything is about to collapse, and the community is on the brink or at the level of a third world country.The Palestinian community's immediate downfall has been prophesied numerous times in the media. People have nothing to eat, we sometimes know. The UN must from time to time to stop food distribution, either because their stocks are running low, or because they can not get diesel for their trucks, and therefore can not carry food in. And so on.
Yesterday I drove into the Gaza Strip. I don't do this as often as before [because it takes much longer to get through the checkpoints now.]
This time, I had expected to see real suffering, because with all the fuss in recent days about bringing tons of humanitarian relief in - so much that people actually sacrificed their lives for it - there certainly had to really be a deep, desperate situation in the Gaza Strip. No food. Long queues in front of UN food stocks. Hungry children with food bowls.
But this was not the picture that greeted me.
When I yesterday morning drove through Gaza City, I was immediately surprised that there are almost as many traffic jams as there always has been. Is there not a shortage of fuel? Apparently not. Gasoline is not even rationed.
Many shops were closed yesterday, Hamas has declared a general strike in protest against Israel's brutal and deadly attack on the Turkish flotilla with pro-Palestinian activists on board. So it was difficult to estimate how many products were on the shelves. Therefore I went over to the Shati refugee camp, also known as Beach Camp. Here is one of Gaza's many vegetable markets that sell much more than just fruits and vegetables.
I will not say whether, in better times has been a larger product range than there was yesterday. But there was certainly no shortage of vegetables, fruits or any other ordinary, basic foods. Tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, watermelons, potatoes - mountains of these items in the many stalls.
I must admit I was a little surprised. Because when I call down here to my Palestinian friends, they tell me about all the problems and deficiencies, so I expected that the crisis was a little more clear.
And the first woman we interviewed in the market confirms this strange, contradictory, negative mindset:
"We have nothing," she said. We need everything! Food, drinks ... everything!"
It disturbed her not at least that she stood between the mountains of vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry and fish, while she spun this doomsday scenario....


























When Gazan Arabs broke through last year into the Sinai, and Egyptian towns along the border, they were reported as being amazed at "how poor" the Egyptians were. And why not? The Gazan Arabs have managed, like a great many other Arabs on UNRWA elsewhere, and a great many Arabs and Muslims on Western aid money still elsewhere, to arrange things so that they are on a permanent dole. They can thus spend their time trying to plan and carry out attacks on those who supply them with electricity, water, and 15,000 tons of food, medicine, and other supplies every single week -- without a single "activist" ever bothering to recognize this, nor any of those papers busy denouncing Israel -- that is, the government of Israel, which has no obligation to continue to supply power, or food, or medicine, or anything at all, to people who are in a permanent state of war with Israel because that is what Islam tells them to do, and they are intent on doing it.
When, in human history, has the intended target of total destruction ever supplied what Israel supplies to the Gazan Arabs (that electric power, water, and 15,000 tons of food, medicine, and so on), that is in wartime supplied to those who wish to wipe it out?
Give me a single example of any other state, at any time, doing this.
No, I didn't think you could.
Well, why don't those who appear on debates ever ask this mind-opening question?
Cat got their tongues?
What exactly is it, that they can't discuss the Jihad against Israel that has no end?