Annie Anthrax wrote on Mar 30
th, 2012 at 10:02am:
Soren wrote on Mar 29
th, 2012 at 9:18pm:
Annie Anthrax wrote on Mar 29
th, 2012 at 9:03pm:
Giving it back implies that Palestinians in Gaza have some kind of autonomy. They don't really, do they?
They do. They have the freedom to build roads, schools, infrastructure, civil society, organise road maintenance and garbage collection. God knows, they get loads of money from Europe for all that.
What do you think the blockade was? Have you seen the list of goods that were prohibited under it?
Cement, for one...ridiculous things designed to keep Gazans in perpetual suffering. This conflict is about psychological warfare as much as anything else.
Why do you think solidarity NGOs and some brave individuals took such risks to break it?
Israel has complete power over the citizens of Gaza.
There is no genuine autonomy.
In Australia Annie, we don't use cement to build tunnels to smuggle terrorist and weapons into someone else's land with the objective of spreading terror, or to kidnap and murder people.
In Gaza, this is exactly what muslim extremists do.
And a search on U-Tube Annie will show how these people are suffering in their new shopping malls and 5 star restaurants which have opened up.
And a look at the census conducted by Hamas in 2006 or 2008 shows the population is growing, not shrinking.
One has to ask, where are all the photos of suffering Gazan residents taken by solidarity NGO's and brave individuals.
Why aren't these photo's appearing on El Jazeera?
Why?
Israel does not control the budget for Gaza, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank does.
And they are not willing to give Hamas kooks control over the funding.