March 28, 2007

I hate 18 hour days

So I went home after 17 and a half. Then while I was sucking down several Sierra Nevadas to be able to go to sleep so I can get up and be back before 6 tomorrow, I came across this. Now if I'm understanding this correctly:

- A septic pool collapsed, flooding a Gaza village with sewage.

- It collapsed because people were mining it for sand (in Gaza).

- The village had a septic pool because Gaza can't update its infrastructure because of the constant Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

- Israel was supplying pipes to be used to build a new sewage system in Gaza, but...

- A metal merchant in Gaza, instead of providing them to the people who work on the sewage system, was selling those pipes to other people.

- Those other people were using the pipes to manufacture rockets...

- Which were being used in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

As the man says, it's beyond parody.

Posted by Ken S at March 28, 2007 10:58 PM | TrackBack (0) |
Comments

It'd be too funny, if it wasn't so sad.

Posted by: aaron at March 29, 2007 03:44 AM

I agree with Aaron.

I just hope we don't see all kinds of blame levied in places where blame doesn't really belong. I feel bad for the innocent people who lost their lives because some guy was basically diverting necessary survival-supplies to arms manufacture.

There's some kind of a parable in there.

Posted by: ricki at March 29, 2007 05:19 AM

Aside from a parable there's also a pun or two about levied levee blame...and I bet you could work levi in there, too.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at March 29, 2007 05:57 AM

Stupidity remains king in Palestine. Oi!

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 29, 2007 06:54 AM

Man, the symbolism. The staggering stupidity that led to this incident would be hilarious if it hadn't killed people.

Posted by: Dave E. at March 29, 2007 07:37 AM