Israel closes West Bank, Gaza

[Muddleoftheroad]

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel ordered a full closure of the West Bank and Gaza, forbidding any Palestinians from entering Israel, after the spiritual leader of Hamas threatened to continue the group's jihad against the Jewish state.

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's threat followed Israel's failed attempt on his life Saturday in Gaza. He narrowly escaped with a minor injury to his hand, after an Israeli missile struck the building where he and other Hamas leaders were meeting.

"Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs," said Yassin, who surfaced in a Gaza City mosque after the strike.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/07/mideast/index.html

OK, what I don't understand is why Israel EVER opens this border. Palestinians, who by their own admission don't belong as citizens of Israel, have no right to enter Israel. So why should Israel ever let them in?

[rini]

1. I may be mistaken

but I believe it was symbiotic, similar to our bracero policy. Palestinian workers filled a gap in the Israeli economy and the money they earned went back to Palestinian families. Both sides have lost in Arafats "keep me in power, I need another villa" war.

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. That was before

Now Israel seems to have discovered other types of immigrant labor that are safer and less politically charged.

[rini]

3. I know

but it is still a shame for both parties.

[jos]

4. Cheap labor

is why.

[rini]

5. karl Marx

asked the right questions, came up with the correct answers, but screwed up in the solution. Money is power. No one is immune to it.