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Palestinians foul their new nest in Gaza

Jerusalem Post:

Hours after the IDF rolled out, vans bristling with masked gunmen and blaring martial music rolled into this abandoned settlement, passing donkey carts laden with loot and families picnicking on yellowing lawns.

OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Dan Harel officially ceded control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority on Monday evening, but by then the fate of Israel's settlements had long been sealed. By early Monday morning, tens of thousands swarmed the settlements celebrating what leaders here called "a day of rebirth of the Gaza Strip."

Students cut school, the terrorist groups carted out their homemade RPGs and prayed in the settlements' smoldering synagogues, the poor scavenged the settlement carcasses, and the PA police and other security forces watched.
Looters torched synagogues and ripped what they could from what were considered the settlements' sturdiest buildings.

The much-vaunted coordination between Israel and the PA appeared to collapse following what the PA claimed was an earlier than anticipated departure of troops. By mid-morning columns of black smoke twisted skyward marking where individual settlements had been.

Is it any wonder these people are desperately poor. They destroy assets that could be used for making money or used for public purposes. They are not poor because of what Israel does or does not do. They are poor because their religious bigotry and elnic hatred is stronger than common sense.