Palestinian Children Living Off Israeli Trash

By Will


This is an awful sight. Yet, I must give kudos to the New York Times for capturing and reporting on this tragedy. It carried an article and showed a series of photographs with sad captions, such as:

Delighted with a whole box of clothing in good shape, a boy shows off a sweater. The boys say the real treasures come in deliveries of trash from the Israeli settlements.

Can there be any question about the basic inhumanity of this? The raw contrast between colonialist excess, and the natives so oppressed and starved as to feed off their waste.

The Palestinians have become so dependent, a pragmatist would welcome US aid to Israel. Enough of the billions of dollars a year that goes to Israel must indirectly subsidize the wasteful lifestyles of Israeli settlers. In a weird way, US taxpayers probably helped subsidize the computer Fadi El-Ammour found and fixed. Wow, a trickle-down economist whose Zionist (read, statist) leanings barely overshadow his economic views would agree with this analysis.

[tarboush tip: Yass]

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  1. krao

    awful.. the photo captures it all

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  2. Wow. I’m glad that the New York Times had the decency to finally report on something real that symbolizes this tragedy, and I hope more and more people will see this !!

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  3. Anonymous

    If only the Israelis would respond to the repeated offers of peace that the Palestinians make…

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  4. Anonymous

    Why should we respond to peace? We have nothing to gain.

    The land is ours, G-d has said so on many times. If the filth won’t leave our lands we will starve them ecomonically.

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