This Ongoing War: A Blog: 19-Jun-06: Snapshot from the Local Battlefront

Monday, June 19, 2006

19-Jun-06: Snapshot from the Local Battlefront

This week's edition of Newsweek, in an article entitled "The Gangs of Gaza: Killers are on the loose in the Palestinian territories..." provides readers with a report on the way things are in the arms bazaar of this troubled neighbourhood:

"A Palestinian arms dealer in Ramallah, who wished to remain anonymous as he offered to sell NEWSWEEK an unsolicited MP5 submachine gun, says that the price of a U.S.-made M-16 on the black market has doubled, from $5,000 to $10,000, since Hamas took power. "Hamas is buying like crazy," the dealer says."

Let's try to clarify that for the benefit of those ostriches with their heads in the ground who continue to maintain that the thugs of Hamas are in the midst of some sort of truce and are busy getting on with trying to solve the daily needs of their people (we meet people who match this description all the time): Hamas is buying weapons - killing implements - like crazy.

Meanwhile, the Reuters agency picture at right of a Hamas "activist" in Nablus six days ago serves as a small reminder of what one of those crazy customers looks like after those $10,000 - from an organization that claims to have been bankrupted by Europe, the United States and the accursed Israelis - have changed hands.

A pity we can't show you any agency snapshots of the mothers, sisters and daughters of said crazy activists... they are busy being interviewed by the reporters from the same newsagency, wailing about hunger and the absence of medicine for their babies.

What (and we mean this seriously) is wrong with this picture?

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