[Marxism] Lean Cuisine: Counting Calories On the Checkpoint Diet

[Dennis Brasky]

  Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd
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> Posted: 01 Jul 2009 06:14 AM PDT
> Remember, no matter what the facts say, just keep repeating to yourself:
> This is not a ghetto. This is not a ghetto. This is not a ghetto....
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> A West Bank checkpoint managed by a private security company is not
> allowing Palestinians to pass through with large water bottles and some food
> items, Haaretz has learned....<http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096322.html>
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> The private security company Modi'in Ezrahi...stops Palestinian workers
> from passing through the checkpoint with the following items: Large bottles
> of frozen water, large bottles of soft drinks, home-cooked food, coffee, tea
> and the spice zaatar. The security company also dictates the quantity of
> items allowed: Five pitas, one container of hummus and canned tuna, one
> small bottle or can of beverage, one or two slices of cheese, a few
> spoonfuls of sugar, and 5 to 10 olives. Workers are also not allowed to
> carry cooking utensils and work tools.
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> MachsomWatch told Haaretz that Sunday, a 32-year-old construction worker
> from Tul Karm, who is employed in Hadera, was not allowed to carry his lunch
> bag through the checkpoint. The bag contained six pitas, 2 cans of cream
> cheese, one kilogram of sugar in a plastic bag, and a salad, also in a
> plastic bag.
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> The typical Palestinian laborer in Israel has a 12-hour workday, including
> travel time and checkpoint delays. Many leave home as early as 2 A.M. in
> order to wait in line at the checkpoint; tardiness to work often results in
> immediate dismissal. Workers return home around 5 P.M. The wait at the
> checkpoint can take one to two hours in each direction, if not longer.
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> The food quantities allowed by Modi'in Ezrahi do not meet the daily dietary
> needs of the workers, and they prefer not to buy food at the considerably
> more expensive Israeli stores.
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> *Two *cans of cream cheese? *Two*? And we're supposed to feel *sorry *for
> these people? My god, they're living in the lap of luxury, just like those
> chicken-gobbling freeloaders down in Gitmo. Well, this is why the West is
> losing out to the Islamofascists, isn't it? We've grown too soft, we just
> *mollycoddle *these people, we really do.
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> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
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