Marmot - A Modern Middle East IOT

[Bowsling]

Social Group has been created. You are all invited.

 

[JohannaK]

Dawoot Megs.

 

[Mosher]

The Iraqi Government, the representatives of the People of Iraq, would humbly request that all Iraqi refugees who have fled to Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, et cetera, return to their motherland. They will be subsidized and receive free housing and work in the new Construction Corps (paying 10,000 dinar a week). Any Iraqi who has fled to another nation may contact their closest Iraqi embassy to receive free transportation back into the country, where they will be relocated to an area where their labour is sufficiently needed.

The Construction Corps, once formed and organized, is to be directed towards the constructions of roads, bridges, the extension and maintenance of oil pipelines, and the paving of airports, roads, the construction of new oil refining facilities, et cetera.

 

[JohannaK]

But everybody knows that the real big oil fields are in Kuwait.

 

[Sonereal]

We have been working, ad progressing well towards finding a peaceful solution to the Palestine issue. Starting a war over it will only serve to further undermine our efforts to resolve this issue.

Been saying that for the last five decades.

 

[Arrow Gamer]

We are not blockading civilian goods from entering the Gaza strip, merely stopping any weapons from entering.

 

[JohannaK]

Ahem...

 

[Double A]

Lost interest, dropping.

How surprising and unexpected. I am amazed. Truly I am.

 

[Sonereal]

We are not blockading civilian goods from entering the Gaza strip, merely stopping any weapons from entering.

I don't see how construction goods, foodstuffs, blankets, and toys count as weapons.

 

[Arrow Gamer]

Facing mounting international calls to ease or lift their blockade in response to the Gaza flotilla raid, Egypt and Israel lessened the restrictions starting in June 2010. Israel announced that it will allow all strictly civilian goods into Gaza while preventing certain weapons and what it designates as "dual-use" items from entering Gaza.

'Nuff said.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

IOT: the only place where people use Wikipedia in international political arguments.

 

[Sonereal]

'Nuff said.

In theory. In practice, "dual-use" has been used to justify disallowing foodstuffs (because food is a military need), construction equipment, and pretty much anything that can actually be dual-use.

There shouldn't be any blockade however.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Palestine would like to negotiate an end of hostilities and a two state solution with Israel.

 

[momo1000]

Hamas would like to remind the world that the PLO, which controls the West Bank, was never elected by the Palestinian people. It was set in control by Israel. Hamas, on the other hand, was democratically elected to rule the Gaza Strip. The PLO has no right to negotiate over the Gaza Strip, or even the West Bank.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Due to the recent unrest both domestically and in Israel-Palestine, all 4 branches of the Egyptian armed forces have been put on high alert.

 

[Sonereal]

From: Iran
To: Egypt

What...are you planning?

 

[GhostWriter16]

Hamas would like to remind the world that the PLO, which controls the West Bank, was never elected by the Palestinian people. It was set in control by Israel. Hamas, on the other hand, was democratically elected to rule the Gaza Strip. The PLO has no right to negotiate over the Gaza Strip, or even the West Bank.

And we could care less why?

 

[wolverine96]

OOC: That sentence makes no sense.

 

[Krzowwh]

OOC: Wait, so don't I automatically have Lebanon de facto under my control, as the President must be Maronite, and the parliament pretty much always in Christian majority, under the National Pact?

 

[Double A]

OOC: That sentence makes no sense.

It actually took me years to get the grammatical sense behind it.

If you say you can't care less, there isn't a single tier of caring below yours. There are zero cares.