Israel to Loosen Gaza Blockaid
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.
More. Since the blockaid is essential to Israel’s security and right to defend itself, one can only assume that the country will now cease to exist.
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Since the blockaid is essential to Israel’s security and right to defend itself, one can only assume that the country will now cease to exist.
Heh.
Since the blockaid is essential to Israel’s security and right to defend itself, one can only assume that the country will now cease to exist.
Ummm, but the blockade still is in place – they’ve only decided to loosen some of the restrictions – something you were whining about last week.
I also am not sure that many said the blockade was essential to Israel’s existence, only that it was a reasonable course of action to take in order for the country to protect itself.
I take the argument to be that given Israel’s decision to loosen the blockade either:
a) The blockade was in fact, as claimed, more daconian than it needed to be in order to effect Israeli security or
b) Israeli security is now going to be seriously compromised.
It seems hard to claim b), so that leaves us with a).
I apologize in advance.
Is Egypt also blockading Gaza?
Since soda, juice, jam, spices, shaving cream, potato chips, cookies and candy could not be delivered from Egypt via two roads running into Rafah, running the blockaid(sic) was essential to Gaza’s survival and its right to launch rockets into Israel . . . that Gaza of the terrorists, by the terrorists, and for the terrorists shall not perish from the Earth.
Is Egypt also blockading Gaza?
Not anymore.
Then none of this should be a problem any more.
It is of course as predictable as night follows day that Hamas will hail this as a great victory and intensify their war against Israel. Israel will then respond by toughening the blockade once again. That is assuming the story is not complete hooey. As for Egypt, I will hold to my prediction that their land border will be sealed with Gaza again by the end of the month.
The loosening of the blockade means that the land based crossings into Gaza will be operating more hours per day than before.
Those crossings are regularly attacked by Hamas. So IDF soldiers will be risking their lives, for more hours, to ensure the long suffering citizens of Gaza can have raspberry jam and coriander.
The blockade itself,however, is still in place. And Israel has every right to keep it in place.
In the mean time, perhaps the commenters here can tell us how they feel about the Reverend Archbishop Capucci, who was on the boat? This is a man who committed repeated acts of perfidy in smuggling arms to the PLO, and since those arms were used to murder civilians, he is an accomplice to multiple murders.
This, His Eminence openly acknowledges, and has never repented.
And yet, he deems himself in a state of grace, takes communion, and has never suffered any action against him by the Holy See.
Pardon us Tribals if we continue to view Rome with suspicion on account of this.
Someone, please, correct all uses of “blockaid” to “blockade.”
Given some of the items on the list, I’m not certain correction is needed.
Not that I would be completely against a blockade of items reasonably calculated to assist in terrorist acts, but potato chips and shaving cream? (although shaving cream is a bit puzzling, I thought Muslims didn’t shave?)
Every additional truck going into Gaza is another few minutes of an IDF border crossing guard putting himself in the line of fire. Ask yourself, C. Matt, would you put yourself at risk of Hamas sniper fire just so your enemy can have a clean shave? Those goods are not delivered under a flag of truce, you know.
Remember the warsaw ghettos now its the gaza ghettos.Divide and conquer!