Israel allows clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza for first time
March 29th 2010
haaretz.com
By Reuters
March 29th 2010
haaretz.com
By Reuters
Israel will allow a shipment of clothes and shoes to be delivered to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the first time in its almost three-year-old tight blockade of the enclave, Palestinian officials said on Monday.
They said the first 10 truckloads would be arriving via the Israeli-controlled Gaza border point on Thursday.
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The Obama administration seems to have forgotten the existence of Gaza, I don’t recall hearing it mentioned at AIPAC or by any US administration officials recently.
The blockade shames Israel and the US should also be ashamed for not pressing Israel for a more human treatment of the people trapped in the Gaza strip.
Terror is the price of support for despots and dictators
Terror is the price of support for despots and dictators
Egypt’s complicity in the Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war
by Seumas MilneMr. Milne brings clear logic and compassion to the Gaza / despot / terror equation. it is a well written piece. http://cut.as/5b
The Guardian, Thursday 7 January 2010
Excerpts:
If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you can be sure we’d have heard all about it. But because that is what’s been happening in western-backed Egypt, rather than Iran, and the people the protesters are supporting are the Palestinians of Gaza instead of, say, Tibetans, most people in Europe and north America know nothing about it.
……..Instead of scaling down the western support for dictatorship and occupation that fuels al-Qaida-style terror, and concentrating resources on police action to counter it, the US and its allies have been drawn inexorably into repeating and extending the monstrosities that sparked it in the first place. It’s the recipe for a war on terror without end.
