Tuesday June 26, 2012, 6:03 am
Must engender mixed feelings, but ultimately, survival is the most important priority for people who otherwise can't afford life.

Tuesday June 26, 2012, 6:20 am
Thanks.

Tuesday June 26, 2012, 9:28 am
My views on the situation there are probably at least partially known to most posters here. It should hold some meaning, then when I say that Palestinians should not have to do this.

I suspect the enormous unemployment there may have something to do with donated aid undercutting local industry and the poverty is likely related to huge wage-disparities between ordinary Palestinians and aid- and government-workers driving inflation to the point where most people cannot afford goods. This may actually be a good thing because if problems with the aid-work are responsible for much of the poverty then there may be something we can do about it.

Wednesday June 27, 2012, 12:14 am
I truly feel that it is wrong to lump any group with a fixed political agenda. That being said, what upsets me about this is that communities are being built, which are solely for one group. This is unnecessary in the modern world where mixed communities of religions, nationalities and races should flourish. Let's build new communities where the sale of freehold leases is for all to bid on.

Wednesday June 27, 2012, 1:14 am
This is such a sad a complex situation out there. With pejudices on both sides. Its through education and intergration with the children on both sides that this conflict could ultimately be solved.

Wednesday June 27, 2012, 11:44 am
It is truly a difficult and dire situation and I truly feel for them since survival is the most important thing. As soon as I read this article I flashed in on a documentary shown on PBS a few years back by Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar called "9 Star Hotel". I highly recommend it. It was about a group of young Palestinians building the city of Modi'in by day and living in little shanties on the hillsides by night and their struggles to survive amidst poverty and the socio-political circumstances there. It really helped to open my eyes to the situation there. Great article. Thanks Cal!

Wednesday June 27, 2012, 1:07 pm
Haven't the Wall street zionist federal reserve board cheap counterfeit money juggernaut have most of us in the 99% in a similar bind?

Historically, money was only meant to be a medium of exchange. This is why the word "promissary note" was written on the bills. In other words, money is a "promise to pay". These notes where never meant to have value in and of themself.

The banksters, now led by the federal reserve, concocted a scheme to give money value. Giving paper money value is a way of robbing us all of natural resources, labor, virtue, and the destruction of whatever is good.

The Palestinians who have to work for these zionist demons are in a situation much like the rest of us. This paper fiet currency is used to control us all. When the feit currency doesn't work, the zionist come after you with violence in the form of weapons, drugs, assassinations, and anything else to bring you to your knees.

Thursday June 28, 2012, 6:00 am
I pity those Palestinians who have to work for / in israeli settlements as they are denied every other way to make a living. Palestinian land, villages are destroyed on an almost daily routine to make more room for more settlements. This is NOT the way to PEACE !

Friday June 29, 2012, 10:50 am
Come on guys, Arab migration to the present Israel started with the Zionists bringing development to this part of the World. Most of the Egyptian live on under $2/day, is it a wonder that Egyptians are trying to marry Israeli and to move to Israel? Or, West Bankers and Gazans trying to marry to live in Israel?

Friday June 29, 2012, 8:45 pm
Hi Heidi :)

The problem is that the primary restriction on who can live in the settlements also applies everywhere else in the world. I think I could purchase a home in France but, not being a French citizen nor having permanent resident-status, I would get kicked out if I tried to live there. (I don't know French law: There may be a reason why I could not make such a purchase.) Palestinians are not citizens of Israel.

Hi Terrance,
The nature of money has nothing to do with this. Also, you're wrong about how it seems to achieve independent value (though it still has no such thing).

Hi Herbert,
Can you name five such villages or towns destroyed in the last twenty years?