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Reports of major suffering in Gaza may be exaggerated, according to a Danish TV journalist.
Steffen Jensen of TV2 has been based in Jerusalem for years, and has often visited Gaza, though it is must more difficult for foreign reporters to get in than before.
“This time, I had expected to see real suffering, because with all the fuss in recent days to bring some ton humanitarian relief in – so much that people actually sacrificed their lives for it – so had to really be a deep, desperate situation in the Gaza Strip. No food. Long queues in front of UN food stocks. Hungry children with food bowls. But it was not the picture that greeted me,” he said in a Danish language report translated by Google.
Jensen said he discovered there were almost as many traffic jams in the past, and petrol was not even being rationed.
Food appeared to be plentiful, even in the Shati refugee camp.
Many stores were closed because Hamas has declared a general strike.
Jensen said he could not say that things were as good as they have been in the past.
I will not say whether, in better times has been a larger product range than there were yesterday. But there was certainly no shortage of vegetables, fruits or any other ordinary, basic foods. Tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, watermelons, potatoes – all in the mountains at the many stalls.
I must admit I was a little surprised. I must admit. Because when I call down here to my Palestinian friends, so they tell me about all the problems and deficiencies, so I expected that the crisis was a little more clear.
And the first woman we interviewed in the market confirms this strange, contradictory, negative outlook:
“We have nothing,” she said. We need everything! Food, beverages … everything! ” As she commented she was surrounded by “mountains of vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry and fish…” Much of the good comes from Israel.
Another woman, Rifka Abu Nahal, said the real problem is water. It could become a threat to farm level as the water table sinks and becomes permeated with salty Mediterrean water.
The biggest problem, she said, was high unemployment
Fair enough drugs can’t make you do anything violent whatsoever, violent people naturally rip the heart out of people while they’re still alive. Sounds plausible to me. One persons reactions to drugs isn’t necessarily everyones. “A mushroom made me do it” isn’t going to reduce that man’s sentence by one minute.
That alcohol is (can be) worse doesn’t alter what this man did, personally i don’t suffer from beer muscles anymore than you suffer from violent rage or delusion with magic mushrooms, but some people do.It’s unlikely to have been premeditated, of course that doesn’t make it any better but things such as this happen very rarely
I don’t think anyone is defending him but something snapped, that’s no excuse but this man wasn’t in his right mind when he did what he did. The family’s of those killed have to live with this for the rest of their lives and our prayers and sympathy should go out to them.
For Gods sake never have the right to bear arms in the UK
@Bad Manners wrote:
Hmm :-k I posted at 11.35, so you had time to look at my post, type “nappy rash cream” into google, scan for a pic, then save it, and then upload it to your photohosting site, and then link it to this site by 11.39? :-s
You’re either amazingly quick Pete, and I would never have had you down for being quick in any way whatsoever, or you have nappy rash pics kicking about incase the situation arises? You’re beginning to freak me a bit now. 8-[
Or you’re amazingly wrong regarding posting a pic ?
Here you go sunshine this should help
The Institute for Historical Review publicly offered a reward of $50,000 for verifiable “proof that gas chambers for the purpose of killing human beings existed at or in Auschwitz.” This reward was subsequently paid to an Auschwitz survivor who took the IHR to court.
Well he’s picked his final 23, now we have no chance who do you fancy to win it
Judges increase paedophile’s sentence by 13 times
A convicted paedophile who distributed indecent images of children has had his six-month sentence increased by almost 13 times by appeal judges.
David Graham, from Airdrie, was jailed last October for downloading more than 127,000 indecent pictures and clips and for abusing a boy and grooming others.
The Crown appealed against the sentence relating to the images, arguing that it was unduly lenient.
His six-month sentence has now been increased to six years and four months.
The 22-year-old had also previously been ordered to serve a further 18 months for an indecency offence against a young boy and for grooming two children with the intention of abusing them.
Former bank worker Graham was found to have amassed a collection of a total of 127,269 indecent images on his computers, with thousands of them featuring pornography at the most extreme end of the scale.
STILL NOT LONG ENOUGH
