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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Gazans Dying from KFC: Israel Responsible

For many years the lie was spread that Gazans, shut off from the world by Israel, were dying from starvation. However, it was difficult to perpetuate this falsehood given the population explosion in the Strip from under 600,000 in June 1967 upon Israeli occupation after the Six Day War, to some 1.4 million in August 2005 when Israel evacuated Gaza, to the current 1.8 million.

Okay, Israel never starved Gazans to death, so what are those nefarious Jews actually doing? In fact, they are now responsible for killing Gazans with bad cholesterol. As reported by The Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0515/KFC-smugglers-bring-buckets-of-chicken-through-Gaza-tunnels):

"For six years, Rafat Shororo longed for the taste of a KFC sandwich he had eaten in Egypt. This week, he got his finger lickin' fix at home in the Gaza Strip after a local delivery company managed to smuggle it from Egypt through underground tunnels.

'It has been a dream, and this company has made my dream come true,' says Mr. Shororo, an accountant, as he receives his order from the delivery guy.

The al-Yamama company advertises its unorthodox new fast-food smuggling service on Facebook. It gets tens of orders a week for KFC meals despite having to triple the price to 100 shekels ($30) to cover transportation and smuggling fees. The deliveries go from the fryers at the Al-Arish KFC joint 35 miles away to customers' doorsteps in about three hours.

The fact that the tunnels operate quickly and cheaply enough for the Colonel’s secret recipe to be enjoyed in the tightly controlled Gaza Strip shows just how much of a sieve the Egypt-Gaza border has become.

'All you need to have any KFC product is a short phone call and a few hours, then you can enjoy the great taste of fried chickens," says Shororo, checking over his chicken pieces, salads, and apple pies."

What nasty plot will those descendants of apes and pigs ever think up next?