Quote Originally Posted by The Dug Out View Post
Under the authority world peace, Gaza is a basket case along with being a bombed wasteland that is no good even to the Palestinians, they have got to be shown the way of peace and prosperity but they cannot see that beacon whilst Hamas/ Hezbula are ruling with AK47's, Trumpalong with other middle east nations are goiing to do it a different way new ideas, trillions of dollars......... jobs, peace, prosperity, this has got to be the way not rinse & repeat what is now. Unlike most here i have been to Gaza, many years ago, it was a typical middle east enclave, people that didn't want to kill you, markets, souke'good food, it could very well have been a riveria on the Med, along comes PLO, all gone!. It's no good looking at the UN to keep peace, i worked for it, it is a gravy train now, useless, under Major general U'thant it was credible, not nw.
Good post. Lebanon and Beirut (the Paris of the Middle East too - https://www.city-journal.org/article...be-paris-again). It bemuses me that Hamas were able to build such a comprehensive tunnel system and infiltrate so many official buildings all under the auspices of UNRWA; and what a failure 70+ years of that programme has been, probably mainly thanks to the religion of peace.

I recall flights to Far East and Australia refuelled at Beirut, and then I remember armed soldiers boarding the planes and airlines finding an alternative.

The behaviour of Hamas in parading their weapons in their circus displays surrounding the release of hostages is sickening and a clear message that they are undefeated, which is a claim to victory, intend that they intend to continue.

Palestine deserves better. It is perhaps worthy of note that there are nearly 2million Palestinians living in Israel, forming around 20% of the population there.