WHAT DOES ARAFAT'S PLO MANUFACTURE OR GROW FOR TRADE? 

Date: 2/5/2004 11:07:21 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Wingwoman7771



Bias Reuters 'says':

Malnutrition in West Bank as bad as Africa -UK MPs
LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is as bad as in sub-Saharan Africa because the Palestinian economy has all but collapsed under Israeli restrictions, British lawmakers said on ThursdayWHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THESE LAWMAKERS???.
(EXCUSE ME, BUT NO NEWS STORY TO DATE HAS SAID THAT THE IDF WAS BULLDOZING GROCERY STORES...)
A report by the cross-party International Development Select Committee also called on Britain to press the European Union to impose trade sanctions on Israel until it lifts its restrictions on Palestinian trade.( I WOULD PUT MORE CREDENCE INTO THIS IF THE SELECT COMMITTEE COULD TELL ME JUST WHAT MANUFACTURING GOES ON IN PALI-LAND BESIDES THE BOMBMAKING VESTS)
The World Bank said last year the Palestinian economy was in steep decline after the Israeli army blockaded and raided Palestinian towns and set up road checkpoints to crack down on a Palestinian uprising for statehood begun in September 2000.
(THE PALI STATE HOOD QUESTION WAS ANSWERED BEFORE THE INTIFADA; AND ARAFAT REJECTED STATEHOOD.  SO WHERE IS THE LEGITIMATE BASIS FOR THEIR COMPLAINT.  ISRAEL HAS NOT STOPPED FOOD COMING IN TO THE PALI-LAND AREAS.)
Citing charity figures, the report said rates of malnutrition were as bad in Gaza and the West Bank "as anywhere one would find in sub-Saharan Africa."
WHAT CHARITY FIGURES?  WHO COMPILED THEM??? 
It added: "Palestinians...are not, as yet, dying of starvation. But they are suffering from malnutrition, as stocks are stretched to feed more and more people."
WELL, HOW ABOUT THIS:  INSTEAD OF SENDING CURRENCY TO THE PALIS WE SHIP FOODSTUFFS THERE...THEN EVERYBODY THERE COULD EAT FREE.
"We therefore urge the UK government to propose to the EU Council of Trade Ministers that Israel's preferential terms of trade with the EU be suspended until it lifts the movement restrictions which it has placed on Palestinian trade."
I REPEAT:  WHAT PALI TRADE?  WHAT DO THEY GROW OR MANUFACTURE????   NOTHING WAS CITED....