Starvation in Gaza
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Please pray for him.
Evyatar is in my prayers today.
The Democrats and their pro-Hamas whackos own this.
Yes, these are obviously folks who share our values and can be negotiated with in good faith 🙄
[…] the Last Crusade:Starvation in Gaza – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American […]
You aren’t going to like this; but sauce for the goose is sauce for gander. If Israel starves the population of Gaza, it is understandable that Hamas starves its hostages. (We’ll leave aside the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and 1967 and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank.)
You aren’t going to like this; but sauce for the goose is sauce for gander. If Israel starves the population of Gaza, it is understandable that Hamas starves its hostages. (We’ll leave aside the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and 1967 and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank.)
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There are no ‘ongling atrocities’ on the West Bank. Israel is not starving the population of Gaza. There was no ethnic cleansing in 1967 and not much in 1948. Live not by lies.
“Art Deco” seems to have swallowed Israeli propaganda whole-heartedly, and uncritically. We really need some critical thinking here! I depend on Mr. McClarey to provide it.
“Art Deco” seems to have swallowed Israeli propaganda whole-heartedly, and uncritically. We really need some critical thinking here! I depend on Mr. McClarey to provide it.
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No, I’m an occasional student of the history of the Near East in the last century, and, unlike some people, I don’t have it in for anyone.
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The Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza have been offered their own state on three separate occasions and spurned the offer each time. Gaza was placed under an Arab authority in 1994 and the last of the Jewish population evacuated in 2005. You can see what they accomplished in that time. Self-government is not the issue. If it were, they’d have taken the deal in 2000 or taken it in 2008 and their efforts over the last 29 years in Gaza would have been devoted to constructing useful public works. The Arab bosses have a complaint and it is one the Arab public on the West Bank and Gaza share: the Jews are not dead. Not much Israel can do about that but make ad hoc adjustments to advance their own security.
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The Jews on the West Bank live in a section of the territory delineated in 1998 (‘Area C’). That area includes only about 10% of the Arab population on the West Bank. A sketchy bureau of the UN has been claiming that 1,000 people have died violently on the West Bank over a period of 18 months, and ideologues such as yourself have been claiming Jewish settlers are responsible. These contention beggar belief as they posit a homicide rate on the West Bank unknown in this world outside of Latin America and Southern Africa and attribute it to a population of suburban dwellers in a country where the homicide rate is 1 / 10 th that.
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You’re not who you fancy you are.
“If Israel starves the population of Gaza, it is understandable that Hamas starves its hostages.”
Which person in their right mind says that?
Eh, Bob,
I did a bit of research into the Israeli/Palestinian mess a few years past, partly because I’ve been hearing this back and forth for decades. Near as I can tell, ..the newcoming Israeli government had agreed to a 2-state solution as of 1947, the Palestinians started a war in 1948, a rebellion against a 2-state solution. They wanted all of it. ..They lost.
There has been one war the Israelis started, collaborating with France(?). They seized Sinai and Suez when they had a quarrel with Nasser of Egypt. ..So did several other nations, US included. Diplomatic pressure forced them to back off.
Every other fight has been the Palestinians picking a fight, then throwing a tantrum when Israel defends itself. Interestingly, I also discovered that other Arabic nations in the area, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, they all refused to accept the Palestinian refugees. Seems….kinship…didn’t warrant more trouble.
So far as I can tell, the Palestinians do not understand that if you throw rocks and rockets at someone, …that someone will eventually return fire.
“I also discovered that other Arabic nations in the area, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, they all refused to accept the Palestinian refugees.”
Because they have in the past. They are and have been an ongoing and permanent issue and they create issues into the countries they flee to.
Jordan had a mass exodus of Palestinians when they annexed the West Bank in 47-67. Over 2million refugees influxes in 2016. The Queen of Jordan parents are from West Bank.
The civil war in Lebanon was a result of PLO and the country has been, historically, destroyed politically and economically by Palestinian and Syrian refugees. It’s positive to note, Lebanon could today be the most peaceful nation in the region for the first time in half a century.
Historically Syria has had half a million as of 21st century but many flooded into Europe during Syrian war.
Saudi Arabia doesn’t help anybody. Infact of late they have been busy building a thriving economy post-oil. They are scheduled to develop kilometers of new housing and infrastructure and have invested heavily in tourism. They finance any country or group that has ties to the US.
Egypt, who has a border with Gaza, doesn’t want them because they don’t want to be dragged into the war by Hamas or be seen to facilitate Israel forced exodus of Palestinian out of Gaza.