[QUOTE="Ravensmash"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"] Or you're just another moron that thinks everything gets handed to people and they don't have to work for it. You want your country better...stop sitting and crying about it and do something. Dumbass....LJS9502_basic
Are you being serious? It's not really a difficult concept to grasp. And why do you keep bringing up this 'do something about it?' what on earth do you suggest an individual does in a place like that? "Hey, if you're starving in sub-saharan Africa, then why don't YOU go get a job and go buy yourself a McDonald's!" Africa now? Isn't it odd how the ME used to be a one of the most advanced societies. Now what could have happened that they are so behind now? Perhaps they have no commodities to trade to the rest of the world....I mean no one wants oil right? How is it that Israel a relatively new nation in the ME is successful? Don't give me the BS about the hardships of the ME. Much of it comes down to actions or in-actions. So if NS et al want to sit around and moan about how bad they have it.....it does, indeed, come down to doing something about it. Perhaps they should elect new governments and hey....not have their religion run the countries. You act like the rest of the world just happened to be magically made successful. Hint: The societies had to work at it.Brought up that example to highlight how you're applying broad statements to very different places, with very different situations. You can't compare a place like Gaza with an established country. Not to mention that the situation there, and constant conflict clearly has an effect on the progression of a nation or state.
"In January and February 2011, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) conducted an assessment of the effects of the measures to ease the access restrictions.[110] They concluded that they did not result in a significant improvement in peoples livelihoods.[110] They found that the "pivotal nature of the remaining restrictions" and the effects of three years of strict blockade prevented a significant improvement in livelihoods and called on Israel to fully abolish the blockade including removing restrictions on the import of construction materials and the exports of goods, and to lift the general ban on the movement of people between Gaza and the West Bank via Israel in order to comply with what they described as international humanitarian and human rights law obligations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip But... "According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the economy of the Gaza Strip improved in 2011, with a drop in unemployment and an increase in GDP. New malls have opened and local industry is developing. The economic upswing has led to the construction of hotels and a rise in the import of cars.[102]" Maybe things will improve.
You come across as very politically naive, where you're happy to apply our first world logic to a place where freedoms, liberty and prospects aren't necessarily taken for granted.
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