The EXISTENCE if ISRAEL is dependent on whether a Palestinian child gets a cookie?
What if that were YOUR RELATIVE that needed MEDICINE, Americans?
"Israel partially lifts ban in Gaza; Some food items allowed amid uproar over raid" by Steve Gutkin, Associated Press | June 10, 2010
Israel and Egypt have been enforcing an embargo on Gaza — where these youngsters were playing — banning all exports and allowing in only basic humanitarian and consumer items. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ Reuters)
JERUSALEM — Israel took a first step yesterday to temper the uproar caused by its deadly high-seas raid on a blockade-busting flotilla by allowing in potato chips, cookies, spices, and other previously banned food items into the Gaza Strip.
But the things Gazans need most — cement, steel, and other materials to rebuild their war-ravaged territory — are still mostly banned, and critics denounced the move as insignificant.
I agree. Time to GIVE THEM their OWN STATE!!!
President Obama called for a new approach on the blockade.
How about an END TO IT, asshole?
Instead of easing international criticism of Israel after the May 31 raid that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, yesterday’s decision appeared to focus even more attention on its three-year-old blockade of impoverished Gaza and the seemingly arbitrary decision-making about which goods are allowed in....
Were the people who went to help Haiti described as pro-Haiti?
No, they were just AID WORKERS!!
Maxwel Gaylard, the UN’s senior humanitarian official in the Palestinian territories, said, “We need a fundamental change and an opening of crossings for commercial goods.’’
Israel and Egypt have been enforcing an embargo on Gaza, banning all exports and allowing in only basic humanitarian and consumer items, since the territory was violently overrun by Hamas militants in 2007.
Except....
"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006.... Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006"
Yup, the AmeriKan MSM KNOWS THEY WON but keeps repeating the same garbage!
Btw, Hamas foiled a COUP ATTEMPT!!!!
Therefore, they are NOT TO BE BELIEVED on any matter -- especially ALL THINGS ISRAEL!!!!
Related: Israel's Defense Attorneys
Yeah, I wondered what I was reading.
The blockade has created a flourishing smuggling trade through tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border but has done little to loosen Hamas’s hold on power.
Right, the Palestinians are all getting rich, you PoS paper!!
Related: Israeli Blockade is Good Business For Hamas
The "Terrorist" Tunnels of Gaza
Israel's Gazan Smuggling Operation
PFFFFFT!!
Facing growing international criticism over its botched raid and the painful price Gaza’s 1.5 million residents are paying for the blockade, Israel has been trying to show some flexibility.
Objection!
Palestinian official Raed Fattouh, who coordinates the flow of goods into Gaza with Israel, said soda, juice, jam, spices, shaving cream, potato chips, cookies, and candy were now permitted.
He said Israel rebuffed Palestinian requests for construction goods, raw materials for factories to operate, and medical devices.
Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal policymaking, said their goal in allowing more goods into Gaza was to defuse pressure for an international investigation of the sea raid.
Yeah, this is NOT about being NICE at all!!!
The clashes broke out after Israeli naval commandos boarded one of six ships on the flotilla carrying goods for Gaza, and some of the hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists on board attacked them with pipes and other makeshift weapons....
Don't they have the right to defend themselves against piracy?
Related: Breaking the AmeriKan MSM Blockade of Gaza
How you liking Zionist lies passing itself off as news, America?
The flotilla confrontation has left Israel scrambling to salvage its international standing, already battered by harsh criticism of the scope of destruction in Gaza from its invasion in late 2008....
Yeah, Poow Wittle Iswael!!
Sorry, but THAT CRIMINAL BAND is BEYOND SALVAGING!!!
Gaza has been mired in poverty for decades, but the closure deepened the misery, erasing tens of thousands of jobs and preventing repair of damage from the Israeli offensive.
As if it were only closed after the Israeli attack.
Pffft!
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But Hamas is meaner!
"Hamas rejects imports of snacks" by Associated Press | June 11, 2010
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Hamas government said yesterday that it will not let newly approved food items into the Gaza Strip as long as Israel maintains its blockade of the territory.
Israel slightly eased the much-criticized blockade Wednesday by permitting snacks, spices, and some other previously banned food items into Gaza. The order was symbolic at best, leaving a ban in place on desperately needed construction and industrial materials.
Ziad al-Zaza, Hamas Economics Minister, said the government would not allow imports of potato chips, soft drinks, and fruit salad from neighboring Israel. He said Gaza’s own factories could produce these goods if Israel would only allow in raw materials.
Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on Gaza three years ago after Hamas violently seized power.
What are we to think when they KEEP REPEATING the LIE?
Israel says the embargo is needed to prevent the Iranian-backed Hamas, which has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, from building up its arsenal.
I'm sick of the one-sided AmeriKan MSM bulls***, I really am.
The blockade, however, has failed to weaken Hamas, but has hurt Gaza’s economy by putting tens of thousands of people out of work and shutting most of the territory’s factories.
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"Gazan poor are hurt most by blockade; Hamas is target, but others suffer" by Karin Laub and Diaa Hadid, Associated Press | June 13, 2010
GAZA CITY — Three out of four factories in Gaza have closed because they can’t import or export. Legitimate businesses have been replaced by a Hamas-controlled black market economy.
Well, WHOSE FAULT is THAT!?!?
Millions of gallons of sewage are pumped into the sea every day because a lack of spare parts holds up infrastructure repairs.
Three years after Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza in hopes of squeezing the territory’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers, those suffering most are ordinary Gazans.
Once again the ZIONIST AmeriKan MSM is BLAMING the VICTIMS of ISRAEL'S CRIMES!
What a PoS media!
They include tens of thousands who lost their jobs, among them 49-year-old Mohammed Maadi, whose family of 15 scrapes by on UN rations and whose teenage sons risked their lives digging smuggling tunnels to help put food on the table.
Even if the blockade were to be lifted soon — as many demanded after the deadly Israeli raid on a blockade-busting flotilla — recovery could take years. Production lines have fallen into disrepair. Entrepreneurs have moved investments abroad. Men forced into idleness have lost their place in society.
Gaza was “working poor’’ before, but economists say the blockade closed off any chance of development. “We have been transformed from a productive society into one dependent on handouts,’’ said economist Mohsin Abu Ramadan.
Then it must be a HELL now!
Israel says economic sanctions are a legitimate tool against Iran-backed Hamas, branded a terror group by the West and responsible for years of rocket fire on Israeli border towns.
Related:
"Since fighting subsided in January, Hamas militants have held back from firing rockets, respecting an unwritten truce with Israel"
The removed Israeli government graph: 'Monthly distribution of rockets hits.'
On the 4th November, the day when Americans were watching the results of the Presidential election, the Israeli army broke the ceasefire by raiding the strip.
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Hamas critics note that the Islamists could instantly open Gaza’s borders if they renounce violence and recognize Israel.
How about ISRAEL RENOUNCING VIOLENCE and RECOGNIZING PALESTINE?
What do you mean no?
Instead, Hamas has clung to its militant positions, and the standoff seemed intractable — until Israel’s sea raid trained world attention on Gaza’s plight....
Same as the NaZionist state of Iz-ray-HELL, right?
Didn't Hamas say they would accept a peace agreement if Palestinians approved it in a vote?
Yeah, that is "clinging to its militant position" according to the AmeriKan jewspaper.
Related: Israeli Boat Seizure Backfired
Or did it?
For now, Israel only allows in a few dozen types of goods, such as potato chips, frozen meats, and medicines, but bans raw materials, including construction supplies, and almost all exports.
As a result, more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 3,900 factories are closed or operating at minimal capacity. Eighty percent of Gazans receive humanitarian aid, up from 63 percent in 2006, the UN says.
Gaza’s health service is overwhelmed and advanced care, including cancer treatment, is not available, forcing thousands every year to seek treatment elsewhere, including in Israel.
Yeah, JUST LET 'EM DIE, right, Iz-ray-HELL!!!!
Israel allows in medical equipment, but delivery is slow, said Chris Gunness, a spokesman for Gaza’s main UN aid agency.
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Related: Israel Admits At Least 14 Gazans Die Every Day
And that is WITHOUT ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION of any kind.
"Senior Arab diplomat crosses into blockaded Gaza territory; Visit is first since Hamas seized control of region" by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press | June 14, 2010
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Arab world’s top diplomat declared support yesterday for the people of blockaded Gaza in his first visit to the Palestinian territory since Hamas violently seized control of it three years ago.
So HOW MANY TIMES is the Zionist AmeriKan MSM going to TELL THAT LIE!!!!
The visit by Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League, was the latest sign that Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla trying to break the blockade of Gaza has eased the diplomatic isolation of the Islamic militant group.
Another ISRAELI BACKFIRE!!!
Maybe he finally got his eyes opened, huh?
Moussa was the first senior Arab official to travel to Gaza since the territory came under the control of Hamas, which much of the West considers a terrorist organization.
That's a travesty! The first one?
The visit was part of an international push to end the three-year-old blockade that gained momentum after Israel’s May 31 naval raid.
“The siege must be lifted,’’ Moussa told reporters. “All the world is now standing with the people of Palestine and the people of Gaza.’’
Because WE ARE ALL PALESTINIANS NOW!!!
Many Arab countries have held the Iranian-backed Hamas at arms length, and Egypt, one of the Arab League’s most important members, has been Israel’s partner in keeping Gaza largely sealed. In a first step toward reopening Gaza’s borders, Egypt has eased the travel restrictions at its Rafah crossing with Gaza.
Israel says....
Israel said....
The government statement said....
So my NEWSPAPER REPORT is really an ISRAELI PRESS RELEASE, huh?
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak abruptly canceled plans yesterday to visit Paris. His office said he canceled his trip while Israel forms the investigative committee. The statement denied that the decision was connected to attempts by pro-Palestinian groups to seek his arrest.
Israelis CAN'T TELL the TRUTH about ANYTHING, can they?
Activists have previously tried unsuccessfully to arrest Barak and other Israeli officials in Europe under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Yeah, now the Israelis are demanding they change their laws, can you believe it?
What chutzpah!
Maybe the EU will finally stand up to the bastards:
"EU joins calls by US, others for Israel to ease blockade; Panel to hold inquiry into flotilla attack; Turkey assails review approach" by Mark Lavie, Associated Press | June 15, 2010
JERUSALEM — The European Union yesterday called Israel’s closure of Gaza unacceptable and offered to play a role in opening the borders, as Israel appointed three Israeli experts and two foreign observers to a commission to investigate its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
The EU move added to the intense pressure Israel has faced to lift the blockade since nine pro-Palestinian activists died in clashes after Israeli commandos rappelled aboard one of the aid ships last month. The three-year closure has withheld all but the most basic supplies from Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinian residents.
Between that and the lie about Hamas overrunning Gaza I'm getting kind of pissed off.
The most notable dissent has come from President Obama, who called the Gaza closure unsustainable. The US pressure resonates more with the Israelis because of their close alliance with Washington.
PFFFFFFFFTTTT!
International envoy Tony Blair of Great Britain also weighed in with a call to ease the blockade and said there were indications Israel is prepared to consider doing that.
Israel has maintained....
I'm SO SICK of hearing Israel's f***ing side of everything.
Israel warns....
The 27-nation EU has consistently opposed the blockade since it was imposed in 2007, objecting to the hardships caused to the people of Gaza.
But not very vociferously.
In Luxembourg yesterday, the EU described the blockade as “unacceptable and politically counterproductive,’’ saying in a statement it was prepared to return to an active role in helping supervise Gaza’s border crossings.
The EU helped run the Egypt-Gaza crossing before Hamas overran the territory in 2007 and the EU observers withdrew.
THERE THEY GO AGAIN!!!!
Several ideas are being floated to improve the dire situation in Gaza, where people have adequate basic food but little else — no exports, few consumer products, no raw materials, and few construction supplies to rebuild damage from the Israel-Hamas war 18 months ago.
THAT is a LIE, and it wasn't much of a war! It was just one large war crime.
The main thrust of the EU statement was a demand to open the borders to civilian goods, with strict safeguards....
Up to now Israel has maintained a list of items it permits into Gaza through its crossings, banning the rest. Replacing that with a list of forbidden items, like weapons, and letting everything else in is among the ideas on the table, said an Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity because no decision has been made.
Oh, THAT is going to be the CHANGE!!!
While considering ways to ease pressure over the blockade, Israel yesterday also sought to blunt calls for an international investigation of the May 31 flotilla attack.
Israel named its own inquiry commission, headed by retired Israeli Supreme Court justice Yaakov Turkel, joined by 93-year-old legal expert Shabtai Rosen and Amos Horev, a retired general and ex-president of the Technion, an Israeli university.
In an attempt to widen the image of the inquiry, Israel’s Cabinet also approved two prominent international observers: David Trimble, a Nobel peace laureate from Northern Ireland, and Canada’s former chief military prosecutor, retired Brigadier General Ken Watkin.
Related:
"Israel’s “friends” still shamelessly swinging from chandeliers at Westminster
Translation: It will be an ISRAELI WHITEWASH!!!
In rejecting an international inquiry, Israel argued that the United Nations and other global bodies have a long history of bias against Israel.
They are really the most detestable people on the planet.
The U.N. CREATED THEM and PROTECTS THEM!
Turkey swiftly condemned Israel’s approach to the inquiry, calling it insufficient and threatening to sever what remains of its relations with the Jewish state.
Why wait?
It expressed dissatisfaction with the makeup of the commission and demanded a neutral international investigation under UN auspices.
Like the REST of the WORLD!!
“If there is no international commission and Turkey’s justified demands continue to be ignored, then Turkey of course has the right to review its relations with Israel unilaterally,’’ Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
Related: Turkey Taunts Israel
Trimble, a member of the British House of Lords, belongs to a pro-Israel faction in the parliament.
A PRO-ISRAELI FACTION in the BRITISH PARLIAMENT?
WTF is WRONG with THAT PICTURE, huh?
Watkin has been a visiting fellow in the human rights program at Harvard Law School.
The INDEPENDENT voices on the ISRAELI WHITEWASH COMMITTEE!
The participation of Trimble — who, like most Protestants in Northern Ireland, closely identifies with Israel — as well as the limited scope of the inquiry could draw international criticism.
Yeah, this "investigation" is a COMPLETE SHAM!!!
The panel will examine the justification and legality of the Gaza blockade, then look at how Israeli actions to enforce the closure conform with international law. Lastly, a government statement said, it will examine “actions taken by those who organized — and participated in — the flotilla, and their identities.’’
And when they are done you can deposit the report where it belongs -- and please flush.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud — whose forces were expelled from Gaza by Hamas — rejected the commission, asserting it falls short of UN Security Council demands for an “impartial’’ investigation.
LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE!!!!
A UN spokesman said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon doesn’t reject the Israeli investigation but still wants an international inquiry.
Who?
In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the Israeli move was “an important step forward’’ in meeting Security Council demands.
“We believe that Israel certainly, as a government, has the institutions and certainly the capability to conduct a credible, impartial and transparent investigation,’’ he said.
How could he say that with his face firmly implanted up Israel's ass?
The EU, like the US and Israel, considers Hamas a terrorist group and does not have direct contacts with Gaza’s rulers. Its statement said the EU would continue contacts with Israel, Abbas, and “other appropriate parties,’’ without mentioning Hamas.
Despite that, Hamas has felt vindicated by the outcry over the flotilla attack.Yeah, but VINDICATION is NOT ENOUGH!
You need YOUR OWN STATE so this will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!
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Whatever happened to those goods on the aid ships, anyway?
"UN to take seized goods to Gaza, Israel says" by Associated Press | June 16, 2010
Yeah, ISRAEL'S PIRACY is raising NO CONCERN!
JERUSALEM — The United Nations will take to Gaza tons of aid supplies languishing in an Israeli port for two weeks since they were seized in a bloody sea confrontation, the Israeli military said yesterday....
Up to now, the Hamas rulers of Gaza have refused to accept the aid as a protest against Israel’s three-year blockade of the territory. Hamas had no comment on the arrangement, under which the United Nations would take charge of seeing that the aid would be used in authorized humanitarian projects.
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do!
The SOUTH AFRICANS did it so they could overthrow apartheid!
The Israeli military statement noted that Israel offered to let the flotilla land at an Israeli port, and then the aid would be transferred overland to Gaza after inspection, but flotilla organizers refused.
Yeah, WASN'T ISRAEL so REASONABLE?!!!
The May 31 raid on the flotilla, when commandos clashed with pro-Palestinian activists and killed nine, has focused world attention on the blockade and its dire effects on Gaza’s 1.5 million people. Israel has been under intense international pressure to ease or lift the embargo since the clash.
With Egypt’s cooperation, Israel has blockaded Gaza by land and sea since Hamas overran Gaza three years ago.
AGAIN with the.... never mind.
The embargo has allowed in little more than food, medicine, and basic humanitarian goods, causing Gaza’s already depressed economy to grind to a standstill. The embargo was meant to keep weapons out, weaken the Hamas government, and put pressure on the militants to release an Israeli soldier it has held for four years.
As I noted above, that is terrorism.
As for the soldier: The Shalit Shell Game
I think Israel likes having him there.
Gives them an excuse to never negotiate and take more land.
It bans building supplies from entering Gaza, saying that Hamas could use such materials to build fortifications.
In a typical week, Israel transfers about 500 truckloads of supplies to Gaza, plus 250,000 gallons of fuel for Gaza’s electric power station, according to military figures.
Yes, dear readers, we have ANOTHER ISRAELI LIE transmitted by the AmeriKan MSM!
"A bare minimum of 400 truckloads of goods needs to enter Gaza per week, and an average of 171 get in."
Yes, the LYING has really RUINED the WHOLE RELATIONSHIP!
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A France-based satellite provider is halting broadcasts of the Hamas TV channel to Europe and parts of the Arab world because of concerns that it spreads incitement, a station official said yesterday.
That's nothing compared to the agenda-pushing, war-promoting pages of an AmeriKan newspaper!
The decision will deprive Gaza-based al-Aqsa TV of most of its viewers, said the channel’s head, Hazem Sharawy....
That's JUST MEAN if you ask me!
The al-Aqsa chief alleged that the decision was politically motivated and meant to silence criticism of Israel. “The enemy [Israel] can kill us, destroy our lands, and blockade us. But we aren’t allowed to expose them,’’ Sharawy charged....
Pretty smart, those Palestinian people.
The Hamas station — best known for its children’s programs glorifying violence against Israel — is the centerpiece of a growing media operation of Gaza’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers.
As opposed to Israeli children who sign their missiles 'Whit Love".
Related: How MEMRI fooled the U.S Media with its Mickey Mouse Translation
That's right, you an NOT TRUST ANYTHING YOU SEE in the AmeriKan MSM -- especially when it concerns Israel!
Losing the satellite provider will hamper the group’s attempts to spread its message and raise funds abroad.
The same effect as the DECLINING READERSHIP of AmeriKan newspapers?
The decision to cut off the Hamas station came six years after a similar move by France and the United States against al-Manar, the channel of Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah....
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Also see: Another Zionist Stooge
If it is not being censored, that is....
