What exactly do the "Palestinians" produce...?

There is a thriving scrap metal and general salvage industry at the heart of the Palestinian economy with its vibrant centre in West Palestine (think East and West Pakistan).

Posted by: SaracensAtTheGates at December 20, 2007 9:37 AM

I heard they were going to make lead free toys. Of course there will be other components to be concerned about.
North Korea will provide electronic detonators.
Just in case it's not obvious I'm joking. LOL

Posted by: Aunt Bea at December 20, 2007 9:37 AM

Palestinians are great at producing money-they always extract billions out of stupid infidels. I should have them lobby on my behalf for a raise with such a talent.

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 20, 2007 9:58 AM

"The project, which is worth 432.614 euro, will last for 17 months. The first phase of the project will involve comprehensive research and identification of the improvements for existing trade corridors into Egypt and Jordan."
--- from the article above

The very language smacks of some consulting firm's Proposal: "the first phace of the project...comprehensive research....identification...improvements...existing trade corridors.."

Yes, the Voice of the Consultant (European Division) is heard in the land. Eager for European dollars to pay for Arab futility and failure. Yet it all sounds so...so plausible, doesn't it? Think of our own versions of this. Think McKinsey, think Bain, think of them all as they jet about the world, from Home Office to succursales in London, Zurich, Paris, Milan, Frnakfurt, and now, of course, Moscow and Dubai and even -- who knows? -- Almaty. Or think of the private lone-wolf consultant, the Business School professor allowed by his fabulously rich university to pocket many millions for his own operation. For god's sake, think of a certain Harvard Business School professor, merely as an example, impressing a Kazakh student or two, and then winning a fat contract from teh government of Kazakhstan, whose tough, no-nonsense, ruthless rulers suddenly become like melting schoolgirls when "Western knowhow" and "Harvard Business School" are put together in a single sentence, and swoon at the site of those extremely glossy affairs, those Reports full of business barriers-to-entry banalities or "After The Oil Economy What?"that you, or I, or an intelligent Kazakh who had been to the West, could produce when yea, verily, the Consultant from Harvard Business School arrives, with two aides, bearing the Magi's gifts of Western Consultant Insight, Western Consultant Vision, all the competitive-gilt-edged Wisdom of the West that Wharton, Harvard, Stanford, the Sloan School can provide.

But does it make sense?

Does it make sense, for the EU, whose economies are suffering from Chinese competition (Chinese competition from China, that causes a race to the bottom for workers, and undoes the European guarantees for those workers, and Chinese competition from right inside Europe, as in Como or, especially, Prato -- now a Chinese economic city-state within a state), and which has to spend a fortune to monitor the Muslim millions now living deep inside the constituent countries of the EU, and which has to pay tens of billions more for its oil bought from Muslim countries --- to pay more than a half-billion dollars (the equivalent of those Euros) in order for some clever consultants to figure out how to make the "Palestinians" more able to integrate with fellow Arabs, and less dependent on the Israeli economy, which really means -- to deprvie Israel of the only useful leverage it has over those same "Palestinians" who are merely the local shock troops of the Lesser Jihad, a Lesser Jihad which is supported by the other Muslim Arabs, who are indifferent to the actual lives (those are expendable, those are unnecessary) of the "Palestinians" but intent on Muslim possession of the land, the land on which the Infidel nation-state of Israel sits, and which Jews have the gall to insist that that land, constituting far less than one-one-thousandth of the land area already possessed by the Arabs, a people who deny to every other indigenous group, if non-Muslim like the Jews of Israel (see the Copts, the Assyrians, the Maronites) the right to a state or even to autonomy, or if Muslim but non-Arab -- see the Berbers of Algeria and elsewhere in North Africa, see the Tuareg, see the blacks of Darfur and the southern Sudan (in 1900 the Arabs made up only 10% of the population of what was then the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan -- but they have been steadily increasing their numbers and power ever since).

This is one more boondoggle. But look on the bright side. A lot of that money will be given to European fast-talkers, and not directly into the pockets of the Arab -- "Palestinian" -- warlords who, since last week's incredible bonanza when they all struck it rich at that Conference of Donors in Paris, have been making plans, already having agents checking out real estate not on the Edgeware Road, where the normal Arabs live, but in Belgravia, not to mention a villa or two in the South of France.

When you are one of the Infidel-supported "leaders" of the "Palestinian" "national" "movement" -- that is, the Slow Jihadists of Fatah, rather than the Fast Jihadists of Hamas --there are so many things to worry about. So many real estate catalogues to flip through, so many decisiions to make.

Is St.-Jean Cap-Ferrat still as tony as it used to be in david-niven days of yore? And Cannes -- one of our boys used to own a nice place in Cannes, along the Croisette, until...well, you know. And Villefranche-sur-mer -- didn't Albert of Monaco buy that Togolese mother of his child a nice place there, so it must be fairly nice, and..."

London would be nice. Or perhaps something in the countryside. Nothing fancy mind you. Nothing like Bandar's restored Plantagenet hunting-lodge. I mean, he's got billions to play with. But remember we're not Saudis. Once we divide up the loot, we only have tens of millions apiece to play with. So perhaps we'll have to make do with a house and messuage in Virginia Water.

We're not greedy, we "Palestianians," you know. We leave some of the aid money for the "Palestinian people." Even Arafat did that.

Decisions, decisions. It's exhausting.

Posted by: Hugh at December 20, 2007 10:33 AM

There should be quite a few emerging "two state solution" countries that will be looking for suppliers of makeshift rockets and suicide vests. The "Palestinians" have cornered the market on these liberation devices and could even offer hands on training in their implimentation

Posted by: Dsinc at December 20, 2007 12:08 PM

Wine!

Western translation - whine.

They do a lot of wineing. Probably got big wine cellars, too.

Posted by: tanstaafl at December 20, 2007 1:48 PM

Speaking of exports -

I know of one positive result of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Did anyone noticed that red pistachios disappeared in the early 1980s? The importation of pistachios from Iran was stopped. American growers picked up the slack and use machines to pack pistachios, so the hideous red dye is no longer needed to hide blemishes caused by hands and fingers.

Iran is still the worlds largest producer of pistachios, followed very closely by the US.

Posted by: Pelayo at December 20, 2007 3:51 PM