Stop Blaming Israel For the Gaza War

[Vigilante]

Hamas Admits Harassing, Deporting Journalists Who Filmed Rockets

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In a remarkably candid interview on Lebanese TV, the head of foreign relations at Hamas’s Information Ministry in Gaza explained how harassment, interrogations and deportations were used to ensure that journalists reporting from Gaza during Operation Protective Edge stuck to Hamas’s official line and did not report “the Israeli narrative”. […] Foreign journalists have regularly complained of being harassed by Hamas authorities in Gaza, directly leading to biased coverage in favor of Islamist terrorists and against Israel. …

 

[georgephillip]

Why don't you start your own thread, since you obviously refuse to stick to the topic which is the cause of the Gaza War, which is simply Islamic jihad. And this lunacy has been going on ever since the cancer of Islam began. No matter waht Israel has done or hasn't done, jihadist lunatics like Hamas are going to attack, and all of this will not cease until they are completely wiped out.

You can't remember the title you gave to your thread?
STOP BLAMING ISRAEL...
Israel is to blame for its latest "mowing the lawn" turf war in Gaza in exactly the same way it was responsible for al-Nakba in 1948, and the Jews are responsible for exactly the same motives; they want all the land between the River and the sea for themselves.

Your ignorance of the context changes nothing.

Do explain how this is when hamas declared war on Israel by riring over 200 rockets and mortars at Israel in the months leading up to the retaliation. Maybe Israel should do what hamas does and fire rockets at gaza, targeting schools, kindegartens, playgrounds and anywhere else children are to be found.

Israel shot dead four Palestinian children between 12/13 and 5/14, including one 15 year-old shot in the back from 100 meters away; how many rockets did Hamas retaliate with during those six months? Israel has failed to live up to the "ceasefire" it agreed to in 2012; why is that? Because Israel wants all of historical Palestine for Jews ALONE.

 

[Sally]

You can't remember the title you gave to your thread?
STOP BLAMING ISRAEL...
Israel is to blame for its latest "mowing the lawn" turf war in Gaza in exactly the same way it was responsible for al-Nakba in 1948, and the Jews are responsible for exactly the same motives; they want all the land between the River and the sea for themselves.

Your ignorance of the context changes nothing.

Do explain how this is when hamas declared war on Israel by riring over 200 rockets and mortars at Israel in the months leading up to the retaliation. Maybe Israel should do what hamas does and fire rockets at gaza, targeting schools,
kindegartens, playgrounds and anywhere else children are to be found.

Israel shot dead four Palestinian children between 12/13 and 5/14, including one 15 year-old shot in the back from 100 meters away; how many rockets did Hamas retaliate with during those six months? Israel has failed to live up to the "ceasefire" it agreed to in 2012; why is that? Because Israel wants all of historical Palestine for Jews ALONE.

Any rational person is not going to fall for it that Gaza George actually cares for the Arabs. He is only using those Arabs from one part of the Middle East as his pawns in his fight against his favorite scapegoats, the Jews. I think people reazlize that losers in life always need someone to blame their failure on. If he actually cared about the Arabs in general, on this Middle East forum, he certainly would have be posting about those other Arab people who have had to undergo such atrocities in other areas of the Middle East (where, of course, his scapegoats are not involved). Even the Muslim clerics have something to say about Hamas.

Cleric to Hamas: Show Regard for Lives of Muslims - Middle East - News - Arutz Sheva

Meanwhile I hope that Gaza George informs his pawns that when they want to make believe they are dead, they shouldn't move.

Israpundit » Blog Archive » Hamas puts the FUN into Funeral!

 

[georgephillip]

Do explain how this is when hamas declared war on Israel by riring over 200 rockets and mortars at Israel in the months leading up to the retaliation. Maybe Israel should do what hamas does and fire rockets at gaza, targeting schools,
kindegartens, playgrounds and anywhere else children are to be found.

Israel shot dead four Palestinian children between 12/13 and 5/14, including one 15 year-old shot in the back from 100 meters away; how many rockets did Hamas retaliate with during those six months? Israel has failed to live up to the "ceasefire" it agreed to in 2012; why is that? Because Israel wants all of historical Palestine for Jews ALONE.

Any rational person is not going to fall for it that Gaza George actually cares for the Arabs. He is only using those Arabs from one part of the Middle East as his pawns in his fight against his favorite scapegoats, the Jews. I think people reazlize that losers in life always need someone to blame their failure on. If he actually cared about the Arabs in general, on this Middle East forum, he certainly would have be posting about those other Arab people who have had to undergo such atrocities in other areas of the Middle East (where, of course, his scapegoats are not involved). Even the Muslim clerics have something to say about Hamas.

Cleric to Hamas: Show Regard for Lives of Muslims - Middle East - News - Arutz Sheva

Meanwhile I hope that Gaza George informs his pawns that when they want to make believe they are dead, they shouldn't move.

Israpundit » Blog Archive » Hamas puts the FUN into Funeral!

"THE HASBARA PROJECT"

http://theglobalconsciousness.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/the-hasbara-project/

 

[toastman]

George, do you think anyone here cares what you think anymore?? Your evident hatred for Jews had flushed your credibility down the toilet.

 

[Phoenall]

"Gaza’s economic decline is seen in the near collapse of its agricultural sector.

"One factor is the destruction of around 7,800 acres of agricultural land during Cast Lead. Consequently, approximately one-third of Gaza’s total arable land is out of production.

"Furthermore, Israeli-imposed buffer zones — areas of restricted access — now absorb nearly 14 percent of Gaza’s total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land.

"Similarly, the sea buffer zone covers 85 percent of the maritime area promised to Palestinians in the Oslo Accords, reducing 20 nautical miles to three, where waters are fouled by sewage flows in excess of 23 million gallons daily.

"Another critical constraint is water. Gaza’s aquifer has been ruined by prolonged over-pumping and sewage and contaminant infiltration.

"Almost all of Gaza’s municipal wells used for drinking water are seriously polluted.

"Due to the breakdown of Gaza’s sanitation infrastructure, particularly after 2008, this infiltration has led to elevated levels of nitrates and chlorides in the groundwater and soil — far above World Health Organization safety levels — posing a dangerous health risk to humans and livestock.

"Israel’s blockade policy restricts the entry of materials needed to repair, maintain, and upgrade Gaza’s sewage and wastewater treatment infrastructure. Save the Children reported in 2011 that Israeli airstrikes destroyed water and sanitation infrastructure valued at $1.3 million."

Where?s our humanity for Gaza? - Opinion - The Boston Globe

What has that got to do with Israel when it is hamas that causes the problems

1) Who used the agricultural land for terrorist attacks, not Israel

2)Who caused cast lead by firing rockets at Israeli children non stop, not Israel

3)Who caused that by trying to plant bombs and firing illegal rockets at Israeli children, not Israel

4)Who caused that by smuggling in weapons and destroying the sewage treatment works, not Israel

5) Who caused that by stealing steel pipes to make rockets, not Israel

6) Who caused that by stealing steel pipes to make rockets, not Israel

7) Who caused that by stealing steel pipes from sewage treatment works, not Israel

8) Who caused that by firing rockets into Israel and stealing steel pipes destined for repairs, not Israel


So you see when you look at it with clear vision it all boils down to hamas and its terrorist policies and violence in the name of islam

It's still the occupation, Stupid

"The Gaza Strip is now in its 46th year of occupation, 22nd year of closure, and sixth year of intensified closure.

"The resulting normalization of the occupation assumes a dangerous form in the Gaza Strip, whose status as an occupied territory has ceased to matter in the West; the attention has shifted — after Hamas’s 2006 electoral victory and 2007 takeover of the territory — to Gaza’s containment and punishment, rendering illegitimate any notion of human rights or freedom for Palestinians.

"The Israeli government has referred to its siege policy as a form of 'economic warfare.'

"In a Nov. 2008 cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv released by WikiLeaks, US officials wrote, 'As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed . . . on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge' with the aim of having Gaza’s economy 'functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.'

"This was achieved through an Israeli-imposed blockade that ended all normal trade.

"The result has been high and persistent unemployment, which stood near 30 percent by June 2012, according to the International Monetary Fund. Approximately 39 percent of Gaza’s people lived below the poverty line in 2011. The figure would be far greater without donor aid."

Where?s our humanity for Gaza? - Opinion - The Boston Globe

No occupation in gaza, hamas has said so

In a stunning about-face, and after decades of violence justified by excuses of being under occupation, Hamas recently admitted that Gaza is not occupied by Israel. And yet, the United Nations, which has long been reluctant to acknowledge Gaza’s change in status, is still silent on the issue.

In response to a statement by Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal that Hamas will hold mass demonstrations against Israel inside Gaza to parallel those organized by the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar declared such a protest to be irrelevant. Al-Zahar stated that while the West Bank is “still under occupation” and that all forms of resistance, including armed resistance, should be used in that territory, “popular resistance is inappropriate for the Gaza Strip.”

The international law of occupation requires that a hostile army have “effective control” over a territory in an area where its authority can be exercised, and to the exclusion of the territory’s established government. As foreign minister speaking on behalf of the Hamas government, al-Zahar is giving public credence to what has been a fact since September 2005 that Israel is no longer in Gaza and that the Israeli government does not displace Hamas’ authority. The assertion that Gaza is no longer occupied is strongly supported by international law derived from the Geneva Conventions and legal precedent. For Hamas to state otherwise would undermine its own power and would be a profound display of the weakness of its government.

While it is not legally necessary for the UN to acknowledge the absence of occupation in Gaza application of the Geneva Conventions and legal precedent have satisfied those requirements it is politically important for there to be a recognized change in status so that Israel will no longer be held to the more stringent legal requirements of an occupier and to lend greater legitimacy to Israel’s acts of self-defense. Gaza should have the intermediate status of a “sui generis” territory unique, of its own kind or class under the control of its own governing authority for the period between the end of occupation and until the finalization of permanent status negotiations. And, considering that the law, the facts, and the leadership of Hamas all indicate that Gaza is not occupied, there is no legitimate reason to continue to deem Gaza to be under occupation, a legally and factually inaccurate status.


Which is what the UN did to South Africa and other countries and not a word was said, the fact is gaza is nit a country and has no legal identity until such time as the P.A. agrees to talks and agrees peace and mutual borders. As sharia sherri says you reap what you sow.

The unemployment is nothing to do with Israel, they don't employ Palestinians from gaza. It is up to the Palestinians government to provide the employment for the people, and in the current world economic climate.


Now you are clutching at straws to attack Israel for something they have no control over.

 

[Phoenall]

You can't remember the title you gave to your thread?
STOP BLAMING ISRAEL...
Israel is to blame for its latest "mowing the lawn" turf war in Gaza in exactly the same way it was responsible for al-Nakba in 1948, and the Jews are responsible for exactly the same motives; they want all the land between the River and the sea for themselves.

Your ignorance of the context changes nothing.

Do explain how this is when hamas declared war on Israel by riring over 200 rockets and mortars at Israel in the months leading up to the retaliation. Maybe Israel should do what hamas does and fire rockets at gaza, targeting schools, kindegartens, playgrounds and anywhere else children are to be found.

Israel shot dead four Palestinian children between 12/13 and 5/14, including one 15 year-old shot in the back from 100 meters away; how many rockets did Hamas retaliate with during those six months? Israel has failed to live up to the "ceasefire" it agreed to in 2012; why is that? Because Israel wants all of historical Palestine for Jews ALONE.

No concrete evidence of this being a fact is there, just "Palestinian sources" and pallywood productions. Like the two allegedly shot on nakbar day that were later shown to be faked. For every 100 claims of dead men coming from the Palestinians you can discount 99.9 of them as being LIES.

Since August 2005 when Israel withdrew from gaza and officially stated they were no longer intending to occupy gaza over 20,000 rockets and other missiles have been fired from gaza at Israel. These are an act of war that has resulted in responces from Israel that resulted in terrorists and militia being killed. So explain why when gaza was mot occupied or under any blockade the arab muslims fired rockets into ISRAEL. A declaration of war and illegal under the Geneva conventions

 

[Billo_Really]

For every 100 claims of dead men coming from the Palestinians you can discount 99.9 of them as being LIES.

It's more like for every 100 claims you make, you can count 101 of them being LIES.

 

[Phoenall]

For every 100 claims of dead men coming from the Palestinians you can discount 99.9 of them as being LIES.

It's more like for every 100 claims you make, you can count 101 of them being LIES.

Not me that gets outed every week for the LIES now is it dildo. Like the one were you said that hamas had not fired any rockets at Israel prior to july 4th. Or that a missile the size of a golf ball was the bullet that hit the Palestinian man running towards it in the back.

 

[Billo_Really]

Not me that gets outed every week for the LIES now is it dildo.

What are you talking about? You get outed every post!

You tell so many lies, that are so bad, you even out yourself (see below)!

Like the one were you said that hamas had not fired any rockets at Israel prior to july 4th.

This is what I mean, you're deliberately trying to take what I said out of context.

Why don't you post my exact quote? We both know why you don't!

Or that a missile the size of a golf ball was the bullet that hit the Palestinian man running towards it in the back.

How does someone run backwards?

 

[BillyP]

Why doesn't gaza just surrender? That would stop the fighting.

 

[protectionist]

The answer to all this is simple > EXTERMINATE HAMAS!!! And all other Muslim, jihad, lunatic, idiot groups.

I suppose that's a "simple solution" for those too "simple-minded" to realise if you "exterminate" a group, you merely inspire others to take their place. Exterminate Hamas, you strengthen Islamic Jihad, exterminate Islamic Jihad, you strengthen whoever comes next in an endless cycle of extermination and creation.

Nonsense. There is no '"whatever" in this scenario. Your "logic" ignores the whole 1400 year history of Islam, it's looney Koran, and its bloody history. If Hamas is replaced with some other Islamic jihadist group, then they also need to be exterminated. That's the point. The enemy isn't just Hamas. It is radical Islam. It is ISIS, the Taliban, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, and all the rest of these gooneybirds all over the world.

No, the is no "whatever". There is a war between radical Islam and normal people throughout the world. There are no groups like radical Islamists. There is no other Koran.

 

[protectionist]

I suppose that's a "simple solution" for those too "simple-minded" to realise if you "exterminate" a group, you merely inspire others to take their place. Exterminate Hamas, you strengthen Islamic Jihad, exterminate Islamic Jihad, you strengthen whoever comes next in an endless cycle of extermination and creation.

But this policy prevents that any terrorist organisation becomes big enough to pose a threat to Israel.

Ah, yes, "Mowing the grass". Unfortunately this policy also generates groups like Al-Quaeda and the IS.

If one has ever had fleas in their carpet, they know that many more fleas are constanly being hatched. Irrelevant. You kill all the fleas and you keep killing them, and you educate young people to live correctly, at the same time. Eventually you git rid of all the pests. Your "generate' theory doesn't hold water. The German Nazis generated many more new Nazis, and in a much wider range than just Germany. It didn't help them, ultimately, as they were crushed by mostly 3 determined, and well-prepared countries (the US, Britain, & USSR)

 

[protectionist]

Looks like even the "Righteous Among the Nations" aren't immune from Zionist acts of genocide. "Dutch nonagenarian returns Righteous Among the Nations medal after six relatives killed in Gaza."

=http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.pre...orldIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source

Anyone killed in Gaza right now is being killed because of Hamas, and radical Islamist lunacy.

 

[protectionist]

Israel was born of ethnic cleansing that resulted in over 700,000 indigenous residents of Mandate Palestine being forced from homes and farms that some had occupied for generations and funneled into squalid refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. This occurred because Arabs objected to a UN decree ( backed by the imperial powers of the day) that awarded Jews with over half the land of Mandate Palestine, in spite of the fact Jews owned about 6% of that real estate and comprised less than one-third of all the people living there. Jews won the war that resulted and during that aspect of their ethnic cleansing campaign increased their total land holdings to about 75% of Palestine, without any regard for the Hague Regulations of 1907 or the UN Charter of 1945 both of which make it illegal to acquire territory by force of arms.

Why don't you start your own thread, since you obviously refuse to stick to the topic which is the cause of the Gaza War, which is simply Islamic jihad. And this lunacy has been going on ever since the cancer of Islam began. No matter waht Israel has done or hasn't done, jihadist lunatics like Hamas are going to attack, and all of this will not cease until they are completely wiped out.

You can't remember the title you gave to your thread?
STOP BLAMING ISRAEL...
Israel is to blame for its latest "mowing the lawn" turf war in Gaza in exactly the same way it was responsible for al-Nakba in 1948, and the Jews are responsible for exactly the same motives; they want all the land between the River and the sea for themselves.

Your ignorance of the context changes nothing.

Nonsense. There is no "context"other than the Muslim jihad clearly stated in the Hamas Charter. Are you "ignorant" of THAT ?

 

[protectionist]

Israel was born of ethnic cleansing that resulted in over 700,000 indigenous residents of Mandate Palestine being forced from homes and farms that some had occupied for generations and funneled into squalid refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. This occurred because Arabs objected to a UN decree ( backed by the imperial powers of the day) that awarded Jews with over half the land of Mandate Palestine, in spite of the fact Jews owned about 6% of that real estate and comprised less than one-third of all the people living there. Jews won the war that resulted and during that aspect of their ethnic cleansing campaign increased their total land holdings to about 75% of Palestine, without any regard for the Hague Regulations of 1907 or the UN Charter of 1945 both of which make it illegal to acquire territory by force of arms.

No it was born out of a need for compassion that is still lacking in the arab muslims. At the end of the day the arab muslims really had no say in what the lands LEGAL OWNERS did with the land. They were just squatters living of the backs of the hard working Jews and being parasites, still clinging to a 7c declaration that their god had made them the chosen people and had given them the world to own. Every civilised history book tells of illegal arab muslim migration to Palestine on the rumours of work and possible theft of Jewish farms. A practise as old as islam itself and it is proscribed for muslims as a means of gaining land and sex slaves. The Palestinians have practised ethnic cleansing since the arrived in the land and just recently cleansed its land of 10% of the population and not a whisper from you lot. Same when hamas/fatah wiped out each others families in gaza and the west bank and more children were murdered then than Israel has killed since 2005, again not a whisper from you over this. In fact every time the Palestinians murder their own people or go on a killing spree you say nothing, but let the Jews defend themselves against Palestinian violence and terrorism and you make vile claims about war crimes and child murder that have no basis in truth or reality. Your common sense is blinded by your hatred of the Jews and you need to be treated for it before you do something stupid.

Now show what territory Israel has stolen by force of arms, and none of your partisan ISLAMONAZI LYING SITES

"Gaza’s economic decline is seen in the near collapse of its agricultural sector.

"One factor is the destruction of around 7,800 acres of agricultural land during Cast Lead. Consequently, approximately one-third of Gaza’s total arable land is out of production.

"Furthermore, Israeli-imposed buffer zones — areas of restricted access — now absorb nearly 14 percent of Gaza’s total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land.

"Similarly, the sea buffer zone covers 85 percent of the maritime area promised to Palestinians in the Oslo Accords, reducing 20 nautical miles to three, where waters are fouled by sewage flows in excess of 23 million gallons daily.

"Another critical constraint is water. Gaza’s aquifer has been ruined by prolonged over-pumping and sewage and contaminant infiltration.

"Almost all of Gaza’s municipal wells used for drinking water are seriously polluted.

"Due to the breakdown of Gaza’s sanitation infrastructure, particularly after 2008, this infiltration has led to elevated levels of nitrates and chlorides in the groundwater and soil — far above World Health Organization safety levels — posing a dangerous health risk to humans and livestock.

"Israel’s blockade policy restricts the entry of materials needed to repair, maintain, and upgrade Gaza’s sewage and wastewater treatment infrastructure. Save the Children reported in 2011 that Israeli airstrikes destroyed water and sanitation infrastructure valued at $1.3 million."

Where?s our humanity for Gaza? - Opinion - The Boston Globe

Palestinians have no one to blame for "Israeli-imposed buffer zones" than Hamas. Were it not for Hamas, and their maniacal jihad, these buffer zones would not exist. Would they exist if all the people (minus Muslim nutjobs) of Denmark were living there ? Or the people of Switzerland ? Ask yourself that.

 

[protectionist]

Why don't you start your own thread, since you obviously refuse to stick to the topic which is the cause of the Gaza War, which is simply Islamic jihad. And this lunacy has been going on ever since the cancer of Islam began. No matter waht Israel has done or hasn't done, jihadist lunatics like Hamas are going to attack, and all of this will not cease until they are completely wiped out.

You can't remember the title you gave to your thread?
STOP BLAMING ISRAEL...
Israel is to blame for its latest "mowing the lawn" turf war in Gaza in exactly the same way it was responsible for al-Nakba in 1948, and the Jews are responsible for exactly the same motives; they want all the land between the River and the sea for themselves.

Your ignorance of the context changes nothing.

Do explain how this is when hamas declared war on Israel by riring over 200 rockets and mortars at Israel in the months leading up to the retaliation. Maybe Israel should do what hamas does and fire rockets at gaza, targeting schools, kindegartens, playgrounds and anywhere else children are to be found.

That's exactly what Britain and the USA did to Germany (carpet-bombing) anfter Germany had done to Britain what Hamas has done to Israel. If israel engaged in the same recourse as the Allies did in World War II, this war would already be over, there be no Hamas at all, and ther would be very little left of Gaza. Lucky for the Gazans and Hamas, the Israelis are concerned with the lives of the Palestinians. The Israelis could also have taken the measures that the US took in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Instead they suffer deaths to their own soldiers to save innocent Palestinians (who many people would say aren't so innocent, after voting for Hamas - if they actually did do that)

 

[protectionist]

"Gaza’s economic decline is seen in the near collapse of its agricultural sector.

"One factor is the destruction of around 7,800 acres of agricultural land during Cast Lead. Consequently, approximately one-third of Gaza’s total arable land is out of production.

"Furthermore, Israeli-imposed buffer zones — areas of restricted access — now absorb nearly 14 percent of Gaza’s total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land.

"Similarly, the sea buffer zone covers 85 percent of the maritime area promised to Palestinians in the Oslo Accords, reducing 20 nautical miles to three, where waters are fouled by sewage flows in excess of 23 million gallons daily.

"Another critical constraint is water. Gaza’s aquifer has been ruined by prolonged over-pumping and sewage and contaminant infiltration.

"Almost all of Gaza’s municipal wells used for drinking water are seriously polluted.

"Due to the breakdown of Gaza’s sanitation infrastructure, particularly after 2008, this infiltration has led to elevated levels of nitrates and chlorides in the groundwater and soil — far above World Health Organization safety levels — posing a dangerous health risk to humans and livestock.

"Israel’s blockade policy restricts the entry of materials needed to repair, maintain, and upgrade Gaza’s sewage and wastewater treatment infrastructure. Save the Children reported in 2011 that Israeli airstrikes destroyed water and sanitation infrastructure valued at $1.3 million."

Where?s our humanity for Gaza? - Opinion - The Boston Globe

What has that got to do with Israel when it is hamas that causes the problems

1) Who used the agricultural land for terrorist attacks, not Israel

2)Who caused cast lead by firing rockets at Israeli children non stop, not Israel

3)Who caused that by trying to plant bombs and firing illegal rockets at Israeli children, not Israel

4)Who caused that by smuggling in weapons and destroying the sewage treatment works, not Israel

5) Who caused that by stealing steel pipes to make rockets, not Israel

6) Who caused that by stealing steel pipes to make rockets, not Israel

7) Who caused that by stealing steel pipes from sewage treatment works, not Israel

8) Who caused that by firing rockets into Israel and stealing steel pipes destined for repairs, not Israel

So you see when you look at it with clear vision it all boils down to hamas and its terrorist policies and violence in the name of islam

It's still the occupation, Stupid

"The Gaza Strip is now in its 46th year of occupation, 22nd year of closure, and sixth year of intensified closure.

"The resulting normalization of the occupation assumes a dangerous form in the Gaza Strip, whose status as an occupied territory has ceased to matter in the West; the attention has shifted — after Hamas’s 2006 electoral victory and 2007 takeover of the territory — to Gaza’s containment and punishment, rendering illegitimate any notion of human rights or freedom for Palestinians.

"The Israeli government has referred to its siege policy as a form of 'economic warfare.'

"In a Nov. 2008 cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv released by WikiLeaks, US officials wrote, 'As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed . . . on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge' with the aim of having Gaza’s economy 'functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.'

"This was achieved through an Israeli-imposed blockade that ended all normal trade.

"The result has been high and persistent unemployment, which stood near 30 percent by June 2012, according to the International Monetary Fund. Approximately 39 percent of Gaza’s people lived below the poverty line in 2011. The figure would be far greater without donor aid."

Where?s our humanity for Gaza? - Opinion - The Boston Globe

There is no occupation. Israelis left Gaza in 2005. There isn't an Israeli soldier, or settler, or Jew in Gaza, that wasn't caused to be there by Hamas 'rocketing. And the blockade was imposed by Hamas, just like all the other trouble. Eliminate the Koran, eliminate Hamas, and this all goes away.

 

[protectionist]

Hamas Admits Harassing, Deporting Journalists Who Filmed Rockets

INN ^


In a remarkably candid interview on Lebanese TV, the head of foreign relations at Hamas’s Information Ministry in Gaza explained how harassment, interrogations and deportations were used to ensure that journalists reporting from Gaza during Operation Protective Edge stuck to Hamas’s official line and did not report “the Israeli narrative”. […] Foreign journalists have regularly complained of being harassed by Hamas authorities in Gaza, directly leading to biased coverage in favor of Islamist terrorists and against Israel. …

If they had reported the truth, they'd have been killed.

 

[protectionist]

You can't remember the title you gave to your thread?
STOP BLAMING ISRAEL...
Israel is to blame for its latest "mowing the lawn" turf war in Gaza in exactly the same way it was responsible for al-Nakba in 1948, and the Jews are responsible for exactly the same motives; they want all the land between the River and the sea for themselves.

Your ignorance of the context changes nothing.

Do explain how this is when hamas declared war on Israel by riring over 200 rockets and mortars at Israel in the months leading up to the retaliation. Maybe Israel should do what hamas does and fire rockets at gaza, targeting schools, kindegartens, playgrounds and anywhere else children are to be found.

Israel shot dead four Palestinian children between 12/13 and 5/14, including one 15 year-old shot in the back from 100 meters away; how many rockets did Hamas retaliate with during those six months? Israel has failed to live up to the "ceasefire" it agreed to in 2012; why is that? Because Israel wants all of historical Palestine for Jews ALONE.