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| Monaco is much smaller than the Gaza Strip |
I’ve been there several times, the most recent in 2018, with a sailing mate, in a Renault Sport Mégane, we drove right on it to Monaco and to its famous Yacht Club, where we had a lunch overlooking the Super-yachts.
Why I mention this? Why call it the “Monaco Strip”?
Well, to compare it with the Gaza Strip. To contrast it, mainly. Because the Gaza Strip could have been like Monaco. But the leadership of Gaza, and it’s people, chose not to be. They chose to be a “Gaza Strip” as opposed to just Gaza, a vibrant city-state on the Mediterranean.
You want Monaco to be more like the “Monaco Strip”? More like the Gaza Strip?
All you have to do is start shooting missiles at nearby French city of Nice. Start killing nearby French folks. Kill your opposition. Kill or drive out all Jews from the Strip. Randomly send in terrorists to kill and maim local French. Then France will close off the border. You’ve then achieved a “blockade” on yourself. Which you can then yell to the heavens that France is being racist, xenophobic, Monacan-hating. Get the United Nations to set up a “refugee” body specifically for you alone, then use the money they bring in to build tunnels and make missiles.
You get the picture. Gaza could have been a Monaco. It chose instead to be a Gaza Strip. A blighted failure. Because Gazans, the Islamists of Gaza, hate Jews more than they love Gazans. And turned it into a “Strip”, stripped of any humanity.
Hamas-loving westerners will say “Gaza is an open-air prison”, and “Gaza is a concentration camp”, and “Gaza has the highest population concentration in the world”. All of these are untrue. We here in Hong Kong have a higher population density than the Gaza Strip. On all measures, Monaco is smaller and more crowded than the Gaza Strip, yet has a happy, wealthy population, which gets on with the rest of the world. And the only reason there’s a “blockade” on Gaza is because they carried out non-stop terrrorist attacks on its next-door neighbour.
Here is a comparison I did of the Gaza Strip vs. Monaco. 
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Monaco is tiny compared to Gaza, and has a population density 3 times that of Gaza. Yet it somehow manages to be wealthy: amongst the wealthiest places in the world, with a GDP per capita of $US 234,000 vs $US 5,380 for Gaza. That is, Monacan GDP per capita is 42 times that of Gaza.
The Gaza Strip contrasting so badly vs Monaco is not an accident. It’s not because of Israel. It’s because of choices made by Hamas.
In 2005, when Israel removed all its citizens from the Gaza Strip, and handed it back to the Palestinians, Israel and the rest of the world stood ready to help Gaza become wealthy. There were plans for a new port and a new airport. Then came Hamas in 2006, to overthrow the Palestinian Authority, to murder their leaders and to set in place the policies that remain to this day: namely “Kill the Jews”.
Instead of building on the infrastructure that the Israelis had left them, working to becoming the Monaco of the eastern Mediterranean, they set about diverting all the aid moneys via UNWRA to building tunnels and rockets.
And somehow our luvvies in the west are taken in by this. Somehow they hate on Israel and love on Hamas.
I say shame on them all.
All the above just occurred to me as I follow the whole Gaza drama and people point out that Gaza could have been like “Singapore on the Med”. The better comparison is Monaco, as it really is on the Med, and it’s even smaller, so neutralising the “Open-air prison” meme. The contrast is direct. Monaco chose one route; the Islamists of Gaza chose another route. They made it the “blockaded” hell-hole that it’s become. Their fault. Their responsibility. Their doing.
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| You, Gaza, got what’s on the right pic, because of your choice |
