A Booming Palestinian Business
Charles Johnson
Tue Jan 24, 2006 at 6:56 pm PST • Views: 169
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Yasser Qishta, 25, shows a visitor into his near-finished house, a two-story cinderblock structure with a pristine, pastel interior, all new paint and gleaming ceramic tile. The house cost him $32,000, a fortune for a man of his age in the Gaza Strip’s troubled economy.
The house tells everyone in the neighborhood what he has been up to: burrowing beneath the border to help bring illegal arms into the Gaza Strip.
“I risked my life, but now I can afford to get married,” Mr. Qishta said in a deep, resonant voice, sitting on a rug and serving coffee.
With Palestinian parliamentary elections on Jan. 25 and Israeli ones in March, the unraveling of public order in Gaza has become a central issue in both societies.
Yes. But for very different reasons.
Frank says: