Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced Monday that Israel had confiscated 23 tons of chocolate bars that were to be imported to the Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said they considered the attempted acquisition “suspicious.”
For years, Israel had forbidden chocolate from even entering the Gaza Strip as a “luxury item.” Recent, some limited imports have been allowed, though Israel tends to curb them whenever they feel like making a move against the Palestinians.
This was different because the 23 tons is such a huge amount, and because the Defense Ministry is claiming that Hamas was planning to fund its military wing with the sales. Ironically, the scarcity in Gaza would increase profitability.
Adding to the confusing intrigue, some ministry officials were suggesting that the chocolate bars were meant to “serve as an alternate currency” for the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials are pinning this plot on al-Mutahadun, and the Arab Training Company China. Gantz said the seizure of the chocolate would “prevent the empowerment of Hamas.”
The population of Gaza is about the same number as 23 tons are when converted to ounces.
That means each person in Gaza could, in theory, get one ounce of chocolate from the original shipment.
God’s Favorite Thieves and murderers can’t allow the subhuman Paleos to have such an overwhelming luxury.
God’s Favorite People are – at heart – really, really mean b*stards.
And who made them that way?
They did it to themselves. Natural born pr*cks.
Bile does not make for truth.
Sertorius: I suggest you employ that dandy little “ignore” option when it comes to “Jake”, as I did and as every poster here should. There’s no point in trying to reason with anyone who supports apartheid and genocide.
Typical small , reductive mind that can’t take anyone with opposing views. you’d love to live in a fascist country.
“you’d love to live in a fascist country” —–like Israel.
bitter,aren’t we?.
So you are admitting they are “that way”? Good for you.
childish
They were your words.
According to the hype – the Almighty.
It was not the Palestinians that caused the exodus from Spain or Germany, Poland or the Third Reich and it’s sphere of control. It seem that jake accepts Zachry Smith”s contention but wishes to parry as to cause.
This is why Gaza is labeled an Open ‘Air Prison’..Because it f******* is.
BDS
BDS as if someone’s life depends on it…IT DOES!
Chocolate as “currency”? How high can I roll my eyes?
Just another attempt by the Zionazis to deprive the Gazans of any semblance of normal lives. The chocolate could at least have offered some comfort to the children maimed and displaced by the ZioNazis.
Takes one to know one
Currency? Sure, why not. This is also why they don’t allow the Gazans to catch too many fish. And now Israel will have to cut back on how much electricity Gazans can use. Otherwise they might try to keep their currency from melting and rotting.
Fishing boats smuggle in rockets.
And yet Israel lowered the miles they could fish from 15 to 8(Oslao said they could fish 20 miles out)because of the balloons and not because of rocket smuggling. Once again, mass punishment to teach those “cockroaches” a lesson. Brutality works.
Work great for the Reich, until it didn’t
Grow up-both sides hate each other, with very good reason. Many of the Gazans are descendants of people driver there during the 1948 war, and are living in very poor circumstances. Sad stuff. Israelis remember the terrorist attacks from Gaza that murdered innocents.Hamas, which controls Gaza-boycotted Oslo-they have no right to expect anything from it. Shooting off rockets goes no body any good.The only hope of human betterment is for small,incremental positive steps that make ‘s everyone’s life a bit better. Not expecting a truce which will be used to rearm,not dreaming that you can go back to a house which may have been sold five times or is now a supermarket, and taking it over, or expecting some deus ex machina that will wisk all the Israelis to the moon.
Mass punishment isn’t going to “make everyone’s life a little better”. You missed the point. Again. Israel lowered the miles they could fish for reasons other than “fishing boats smuggle in rockets”. They did it because of the balloons. So they made the average person’s life “a little bit more miserable” with some punishment for the masses. And I only was using the 20 mile limit agreed upon as a reference. But once more you spout more irrelevant nonsense.
What ever you don’t wan’t to hear is irrelevant nonsense.The arrogance!
You brought up things that were irrelevant to what we were talking about. You do this all the time. And not just with me.
T you,anyone who disagrees with you is a paid agent-very reductive.
2.Where is your doctoral degree in logic?
3.You mentioned that you boycotted a particular company.The owner happens to be a peace advocate-shows where your logic is.
Thank you for proving my point. Nothing you said had any relevance to our current conversation.
I will determine what is relevant.
Proving my point once again. Never mind the subject matter.
Pathetic … what assholes.
I think I understand what’s going on. This is revenge for Ben and Jerry’s leaving Israel.
Prohibition in chocolate is an old one. The list of prohibited items changes constantly, but many things are same. Chocolate one of them. Most important is the prohibition on cement making reconstruction of bombed structures difficult. Other items — among many — are all sorts of school supplies, fishing nets, sawing machines, musical instruments, etc. For most of those , like chocolate , there is a severe rationing. I do not know how things stand with food, but once there was actually a calorie count to put Palestinians “in a diet”. Actually as olive oil is their export, destroying olive trees became fashionable.
Once, Turkish flotilla attempted to bring supplies to Gaza, was intercepted by military, boats and goods confiscated. One volunteer killed, others arrested and eventually released. It was only last year that Israel finally paid an unknown amount in compensation,
The question is — what happens to Palestinian money? The chocolates were paid for, and Israel keeps them. To my knowledge Palestinians do not get their money back. Also, taxes collected by Israel that belong to Palestinians are almost always shorted by often imaginary “services” Israel provides, These are the most murky aspects of Israeli abuse of their duties as occupiers.
Can’t help but notice that the childish propaganda boy “jake” hasn’t touched your spot-on post.
Once again, truth and logic wins over the “antiwar” crowd.
The propaganda boy arrives, but says nothing.
I’m out of date with my collection of Hasbara handbooks, but it’s possible later versions recommend pure disruption. When it’s impossible to defend the thefts and murders and vandalism, raising as much hell as possible may be what the Apartheid state “how-to” books are recommending now. Has ‘jake’ done anything else besides that?
Whatever else you say about the people who created the cesspool state, they proved themselves to be masters at manipulating opinions. For most of my life I was in total sympathy for the struggles of “poor little israel”.
Only when I learned about the attempted sinking of the USS Liberty and the planned murder of all aboard did I finally wise up.
Me Too…!!!!!!
I guess shekels could be an ‘alternate currency’, too. If the Gazans really wanted to stick it to them, they could declare that pieces of Israeli artillery and bombs were the ‘alternate currency’ of Gaza.
Gee, one more outrageous act to make the Palestinians lives more misserable. One would think that they were already doing everything possible to make life unbearible. I suppose the IsraelI regime is looking for ways that don’t get such bad press as shooting children, gassing worshippers bulldozing houses & villages Perhaps their flagging efforts to kill BDS have trimmed their very outrageous act.