The UN has accused Hamas of taking thousands of blankets and food parcels meant for families in Gaza.
Hamas has a lack of regard for the welfare of it's own people.
Every rocket Hamas fires into Israel brings the potential for civilian casualities in Gaza, which is exactly what Hamas wants. Then it can cry to the world that it is being victimized by Israel. The death of its own people is of no concern to the Hamas leaders. They are just collateral damage in the war of public opinion, at which they are the true masters.
According to your article, the Israelis have telephone number and personal information of everyone living in Gaza. This proves that Israel controls Gaza and is turning it into a giant prison.
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions:
"Israel's settlers were withdrawn but Israeli soldiers continued to control all access to the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air. Gaza was converted overnight into an open-air prison. From this point on, the Israeli air force enjoyed unrestricted freedom to drop bombs, to make sonic booms by flying low and breaking the sound barrier, and to terrorise the hapless inhabitants of this prison."
Hamas as an organization has no way to control any one in Gaza. As soon as any Hamas member gets out on the street Israeli Remote controlled Drones bomb him and a block of houses around him, but they never target terrorists who fire rockets. Why?
Perhaps this article will bring home the message about the dire and hopeless situation the Gazans find themselves in. This small strip of land by the Mediterranean houses one and a half million people who are imprisoned there, unable to come and go as they please, to work or take up studies abroad (if they leave Israel might not allow them back in!).
Israel controls every aspect of Gazan life, its airspace, its borders and its coastline. Israel controls what goes in and comes out of the country.
this report could be dismissed by those who don't want to deal with what it has to say, but i think it represents a major anomaly that should alert the attentive reader to the pervasive dysfunctions of the mainstream news media in covering the Arab-Israeli conflict. and the tragic thing is that, while in the past, such (effectively) dishonest and misleading reporting was relatively free -- the only real victims were Israelis whose image was blackened, and Palestinians who were left in the hands of predatory elites who used them as sacrifices to sway world opinion -- now, under conditions of global jihad, it's the westerners who also lose because they are so deeply misinformed about the nature of a conflict that targets them as much as it does the israelis.
thank you for running a much longer version of an article i saw earlier and discussed at http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/03/02/puzzled-in-gaza-not-if-you-kn...
According to this article, Gaza has an abundance of food.
I guess that’s why Israel seizes a Lebanese ship carrying supplies into Gaza today.
The UN has accused Hamas of taking thousands of blankets and food parcels meant for families in Gaza.
Hamas has a lack of regard for the welfare of it's own people.
Every rocket Hamas fires into Israel brings the potential for civilian casualities in Gaza, which is exactly what Hamas wants. Then it can cry to the world that it is being victimized by Israel. The death of its own people is of no concern to the Hamas leaders. They are just collateral damage in the war of public opinion, at which they are the true masters.
According to your article, the Israelis have telephone number and personal information of everyone living in Gaza. This proves that Israel controls Gaza and is turning it into a giant prison.
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions:
"Israel's settlers were withdrawn but Israeli soldiers continued to control all access to the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air. Gaza was converted overnight into an open-air prison. From this point on, the Israeli air force enjoyed unrestricted freedom to drop bombs, to make sonic booms by flying low and breaking the sound barrier, and to terrorise the hapless inhabitants of this prison."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-palestine
Hamas as an organization has no way to control any one in Gaza. As soon as any Hamas member gets out on the street Israeli Remote controlled Drones bomb him and a block of houses around him, but they never target terrorists who fire rockets. Why?
To Tony:
Yes, they target terrorists. That's why Israel receives only two rockets after the military operation.
Perhaps this article will bring home the message about the dire and hopeless situation the Gazans find themselves in. This small strip of land by the Mediterranean houses one and a half million people who are imprisoned there, unable to come and go as they please, to work or take up studies abroad (if they leave Israel might not allow them back in!).
Israel controls every aspect of Gazan life, its airspace, its borders and its coastline. Israel controls what goes in and comes out of the country.
this report could be dismissed by those who don't want to deal with what it has to say, but i think it represents a major anomaly that should alert the attentive reader to the pervasive dysfunctions of the mainstream news media in covering the Arab-Israeli conflict. and the tragic thing is that, while in the past, such (effectively) dishonest and misleading reporting was relatively free -- the only real victims were Israelis whose image was blackened, and Palestinians who were left in the hands of predatory elites who used them as sacrifices to sway world opinion -- now, under conditions of global jihad, it's the westerners who also lose because they are so deeply misinformed about the nature of a conflict that targets them as much as it does the israelis.
thank you for running a much longer version of an article i saw earlier and discussed at http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/03/02/puzzled-in-gaza-not-if-you-kn...