The first-ever Palestinian Arab cement factory was established in Jericho, the Palestinian Authority’s official news service, Wafa, reported this week.
At a ceremony marking the opening, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa “read a speech delivered on behalf of” PA President Mahmoud Abbas, now in the 21st year of his four year-term, who was unable to attend in person.
The first Jewish cement factory, the Nesher Cement Factory, began operating near Haifa in 1925. Why it took the Palestinian Arabs more than a century to open their first one is an interesting question.
Another interesting question is why it took the PA so long to open one; after all, the PA has been governing Jericho for more than thirty-two years. During that time, the PA received over $10 billion in US aid, and additional billions from the international community — but for some reason, it never used any of it to build even a single cement factory.
But the most important part of this story is Prime Minister Mustafa’s explanation as to the significance of the new factory.
According to the Wafa report, Mustafa “stressed the project’s importance in light of the anticipated demand for construction materials in the coming period to rebuild the Gaza Strip…”
Cement, of course, played a critical role in the horrors of October 7. Former US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross admitted in a Washington Post op-ed on August 8, 2014, that he pressured Israel to allow Hamas to import cement to Gaza. Ross made that demand even though the Israelis warned him that Hamas was using cement for military purposes.
“At times,” Ross wrote in the Post, “I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built. They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.”
Against their better judgment, the Israelis gave in to Ross’s pressure. And they paid a steep price.
The tunnels that Hamas built with the cement made October 7 possible. That’s where the terrorists trained, out of sight of Israeli surveillance. That’s where they stored their weapons. And that’s where they enslaved, tortured, and raped Israeli hostages.
In the near future, various foreign diplomats, advocacy groups and self-described humanitarians will begin pressuring Israel to allow cement into Gaza again, this time imported from the new factory in Jericho.
Will the Israelis repeat the mistake of succumbing to that pressure?
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Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust.
Billy says
Muslims will rapidly continue to “Islamize” Israel, Europe, and the West with Muslim practices under Islamic Law as long as there is Public Funding in the West for Islam and its Muslim Organizations which are against the USA Constitution and the West’s Constitutions. Stop Public Funding of Islam and its Muslim Organizations! Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:46, 119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
Funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Totalitarian Islam and its Muslim Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting Muslim discrimination, supremacist segregation, hatred, rape, violence, totalitarianism, and terrorism against Non-Muslims to make Islamic Law supreme WITH NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Islam’s Muslims, citizens of the global Ummah or global Islamic State, are treacherous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law using MUSLIM MONEY and MUSLIM LIVES to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 5:33; 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Stive says
Look up The Abu Mazen Cement company owned by the terror leader.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Hamas terrorists that invaded Israel on October 7th 2023 and committed horrendous atrocities need to be hunted down and eliminated for the vicious beasts of Islamic evils they truly are.
If some of them of captured alive, they need to be brought to trial and then severely punished, each according to the many cruel brutal vile heinous crimes they are guilty of committing. As in the historic example of the Nuremburg trials that had been held for Nazi, war criminals.
For the Hamas terrorist are no better than them. In fact, when the Israel Defense Force entered Gaza after those 10/7 jihad attacks, the IDF troops captured Hamas terror bases, cells and even found a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kompf in them.
To put this in another way, those Muslims terrorists of Hamas who committed all those brutal cruel atrocities need to be punished. They should not be allowed to get away with complete and total impunity for the many horrific evil actions they committed. As mass murderers and kidnapping then the horrendous criminal affronts, they performed on the people who they had kidnapped and held hostage. Awful things as sexual assault and outright rapes. as well torture and starvation of their hostages. Those wicked and vicious Hamas terrorists even kept the people who they had kidnapped locked in small dark dirty hot isolated rooms.
After World War II, many Nazi’s had to give an account for the evil things they did and were punished for their war crimes. The same war crimes trials and punishments need to be done to those Muslim terrorists of Hamas.
Walter Sieruk says
First all that cement that Hamas had obtained could of and should of gone into the building up devotement of the infrastructure for the betterment of the Gazan people. Sadly, Hamas doensn’t care about them, at all . It used the cement for the evil construction of jihad terror tunnels to so that that Muslim terrorists will be effective in it’s Islamic terror/ mass murder attacks , as on October 7th 2023 against the unarmed peaceful citizens of Israel.
Second, hose dangerous and vicious Muslim terrorists of Hamas are always very active in their underground tunnels. They are very comparable to mole rats.
It’s a very fitting to destroy as many burrows of the mole rats of Hamas. For those vermin, Hamas, jihadist do need to be exterminated along with the tunnels that they infest.
In all fairness, if any four legged fir covered mole rats happen to be offended by my comparing them t of those to the heinous and vile two legged murderous Muslim terrorists of Hamas I do apologies to those four legged fir covered mole