Aid groups say the world failed Gaza over Israeli blockade
Children peering through hospital walls smashed in the last Israeli putsch
Daylife/Reuters Pictures used by permission
Aid agencies have strongly criticised the international community for failing to help bring an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
The charities made the accusation in a report published just ahead of the anniversary of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. They…condemn not just Israel, but the world community.
In the words of Oxfam’s director, Jeremy Hobbs, “world powers have failed and betrayed Gaza’s ordinary citizens“.
The charities call for more pressure to be exerted on Israel to end what they describe as its illegal collective punishment of Gazans.
A spokesman for the Israeli prime minister told the BBC that Israel remains committed to humanitarian supplies of food, medicine and power.
Just not committed to an adequate quantity – of those supplies. They starve the Gaza ghetto as the Nazis did to Warsaw.
But he said that sanctions will remain in place as long as Hamas is, as he put it, committed to destroying Israel and killing Israelis.
A “logic” that is equally offensive to anyone examining those sections of Zionist politics calling for the extermination of Arabs.
The world has long held that Israel is incapable of doing wrong. For many, I suspect it was the guilt stemming from WWII. For others, it was because of their Biible (rhymes with dribble) teachings. For many, because of the large number of emigres from the US and Canada, there were family connections. Then, there was the strategic location of Israel.
The awakening for me came during a Palestinian uprising around 1990. The newspaper headline reported more Palestinian deaths and an Israeli death. Almost a paragraph was devoted to the Israeli, the Palestinian deaths were just another 6, or 8, or however many were killed. Near the end was the tally to date. Israeli dead were three, Palestinian deaths 867.
I still remember looking at the picture; Palestinian youths throwing stones as the Israelis shot back with M-16s. Several dead kids and a teacher trying to get the kids away from the soldiers lay on the ground. This happened on the school grounds of a Palestinian school.
I didn’t feel the same way about Israel after that.
Mr. Fusion
December 22, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Americans!
You only kill what you can eat, right?
Cinaedh
December 23, 2009 at 8:24 am