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- debunkthelies, on 05/02/2008, -33/+79Any Country that uses food as a weapon does not deserve to be recognized by the rest of the world. The government that would deny or block access to food to punish a people is the lowest form of humanity on earth.
- mmmmmbiscuits, on 05/02/2008, -9/+33"What is the extent of the blockade?"
I think it includes Grey Poupon and Tang. This "crisis" must be like the Rafah "humanitarian disaster caused by teh evil Joooos" back in January where thousands of Palestinian dudes were running over the border into Egypt to buy cigarettes and plasma televisions. - jhbarr, on 05/02/2008, -12/+34Buried for inaccurate:
Rising prices and funding shortages have forced the United Nations to stop providing emergency food aid to more than 13 percent of the 750,000 Palestinian refugees it feeds in Gaza, a U.N. official said Friday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPqHBEPj4ksMsFd ... - besottedpenguin, on 05/02/2008, -25/+45How is it that this gets so many anti-Israel posts? (Did anyone even read the article?)
From the article....
"Despite the continuing shipment by the Israeli authorities of essential humanitarian goods – including basic food supplies – into Gaza and two to three-monthly food aid distribution to over a million people by UNRWA and the WFP, the report says that global food and fuel price rises, along with specific obstacles faced by the territories now present an "enormous challenge". It adds that "targeted food aid and livelihood support interventions are imperative"."
and...
"Fuel distributors in Gaza – whom Israel has accused of deliberately exacerbating serious shortages of diesel and petrol that have severely reduced traffic and created a growing threat of overflowing sewage in Gaza by refusing to distribute existing fuel stocks – said yesterday that they had now emptied the fuel tanks of existing stocks and claimed that it was now up to Israel to replenish them."
For a country that doesn't even get recognized by the Palestinians, Israel sure is doing more then their fair share to try and help these people from themselves. - WickedRasputin, on 05/02/2008, -3/+20You do know that (a) you can be against terrorism and still support the necessity for a peaceful Palestinian state (b) Palestinians don't do everything in the name of Islam (c) saying all the Palestinians don't deserve anything because corrupt leaders took the aid money is like saying many Africans are don't deserve their land... Foreign Aid doesn't work and this is another example of that.
Israelis have also missed many opportunities, it's not a one way street. Yes, Palestinians have made tons of mistakes, but to say that their problems have nothing to do with being displaced (however you believe that happened) in 48 and 67 is ridiculous.
Just because you don't agree with Palestinian Nationalism doesn't make it unauthentic in any way. Focusing on radical members of a society and generalizing that to an entire society is an impressive feat, good job. It's people like you who can't see beyond the crazies of both sides and that give them so much legitimacy.
Hell, I almost thought that this was a complex hundred year old conflict based on land and nationalism, I'm glad you could dumb it down for yourself. Also, calling any sort of people animals and that they have to be eradicated is plain retarded. Are you a retard? - inactive, on 05/02/2008, -15/+31Didn't we intervene in Somalia to prevent something like this from happening?
- fleischner, on 05/02/2008, -12/+27Most of the things Muslims do in "battle" are banned by the Convention. You just don't hear people complaining about that. You know -- fake surrenders, targeting civilians, hiding among civilians for cover, firing from mosques and schools and hospitals, BEHEADING PEOPLE BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN. But no, they're the "freedom fighters" as someone above said, and Israel should be "nuked" as someone else said above. You people are aiding and abetting the worst of barely-humanity.
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -21/+33Disgusting.
- raybury, on 05/02/2008, -16/+281) Gaza is no longer occupied, either by Israel, or its earlier (and much more clearly illegal) occupier Egypt.
2) No Israeli "blockade" matters if you have borders not only with Israel but also with Egypt, and if you would build a damn port on that long coastline (or build a damn society rather than indulge in death-cultism).
3) The British media and the UN are anti-Semites. Not news. - inactive, on 05/02/2008, -13/+24The UN agrees that Gaza is manufacturing the fuel crises. http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/un-agre ...
- sifuchar, on 05/02/2008, -13/+24Check out a map. Israel does not SURROUND Gaza, therefore Gaza does not have to depend solely on Israel for anything. It would be like saying Canada, in response to American taunts about the band Loverboy, closed their border crossing to starve out the American people.
- nunu4u, on 05/02/2008, -3/+13By their own accounts (which you can view through the link) the UN has 1.2 billion dollars in their food aid account. Maybe they should disperse it?
http://lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=399206 - pintomp3, on 05/02/2008, -11/+21New blockade squeezes Gaza residents
Israel refused to reopen crossings or allow crucial fuel supplies into Gaza on Monday, despite UN warnings that vital food aid could be suspended within days.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0122/p06s02-wome.htm ... - jhbarr, on 05/02/2008, -8/+17Did you even read his post. Israel lel the supplies in and Gaza authorities let it sit to exacerbate the problem.
- thisissami, on 05/02/2008, -6/+14why is MH94 being dugg down? everything that he said is true... if the palestinians had helicopters and F-16s and tanks and stinger missiles and they used them against israel, would you call that terrorism? if yes, then why isn't the israeli army being branded as a terrorist army? they do the same exact thing. the only means of retaliation that palestinians have against israel is suicide bombs and homemade missiles. i completely disagree with all the violence that goes on there, but israel definitely does use way more brute force and violence than the palestinians. this can easily be noted by the death tolls of each nation/culture.
- JohnReb, on 05/02/2008, -1/+9How much control of Gaza's border with Egypt has Israel got? Why aren't the Egyptians allowing supplies through those crossings?
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -18/+26http://digg.com/world_news/We_didn_t_eat_at_all_in ...
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -18/+25"Despite the continuing shipment by the Israeli authorities of essential humanitarian goods – including basic food supplies – into Gaza ... the report says that global food and fuel price rises, along with specific obstacles faced by the territories now present an 'enormous challenge'."
I'm a little confused. What is the extent of the blockade? - thisissami, on 05/02/2008, -6/+13ignoring all of the untrue statements in your paragraph (basically everything you said), i would just like to point out that all of israel is built on land that these people used to live in.
- prophet5, on 05/02/2008, -4/+11"They" (I presume you mean Israelis) want to eradicate the palestinians [sic]"? What are you smoking? If they wanted to kill them, they'd have done that long ago. They send them food, electricity, and water. All "they" want is to live in peace. Too bad that Hamas is hell-bent on destruction.
- Skooma714, on 05/02/2008, -20/+27Isn't collective punishment banned under the Geneva Convention?
- legendxx, on 05/02/2008, -1/+8CzarKingRex - A 93 year-old grrrl from Azerbaijan (US) who joined Digg on May 2nd, 2008
Troll, reported. - OwdenBowden, on 05/02/2008, -20/+27The Palestinians once again - Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. They bring all of this on themselves and then try to blame Israel.
You know that when you start supporting the Palestinians you are in effect condoning all of their Terroristic activities along with their support of Terroristic activities of terrorist supporting groups and Nations that have killed more innocent people and all in the name of Islam.
Tell the Palestinian to take the $600 million dollars that Arafat stole along with the PLO earmarked for the Palestinian people to use for Medicine, and food, education and the creation of industry to keep these life sustaining products around for years to come but were actually used to purchase weapons and explosive devices to start spending it on food and water.
Tell the Palestinians to stop sending in terrorist, murders and homemade rockets into Israel.
Tell the Palestinians to stop using children and women as Human Shields and then blame Israel for killing innocent people.
Tell the Palestinians to GO BACK TO YOUR HOMELAND IN JORDAN - that's right. The Palestinians have a homeland which was given to them by the world (UN) and it is located in Jordan. Why are they not there? Well, they started the same ***** in Jordan that they are doing now with Israel but the King did not like it so he Leveled their Homeland and kicked them out.
When are we going to open our eyes to the fact that all of the crap that the Palestinians are living in is because of the Palestinians. It is not Israels fault that these people are too ***** stupid to take care of themselves. They are all Koranimals and Darwin candidates and IMHO should be eliminated from the map and when that happens you just might see some peace in the Middle East.
I'll say it again: The Palestinians Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity! - gincarnated, on 05/02/2008, -10/+17Unfortunate. Egypt has the opportunity to help but no one wants to deal with Gaza. I wonder why the west bank isn't in this same crisis.
- GoneFishing, on 05/02/2008, -3/+10This is not about feudal ideas, its about their own history. We pretty much just sliced a piece of their land and gave it to someone else, and only 60 years ago. Anyone with the right sense of mind would be furious.
- besottedpenguin, on 05/02/2008, -3/+10Also, don't forget to mention that the UN says that the Fuel shortages in Gaza are fabricated by the Palestinian govt.
http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/un-agre ... - Digger1218, on 05/02/2008, -7/+14and Egypt apparently
- mofw, on 05/02/2008, -3/+10Also from article: "The growing emergency comes on top of the devastation of Gaza's economy by the nine-month closure of crossings to commercial exports and imports"
- mmmmmbiscuits, on 05/02/2008, -18/+24Do you also get your panties in a bunch about a "country" that uses thousands of missiles and hundreds of suicide bombers as weapons?
- thisissami, on 05/02/2008, -10/+16if they didn't give any food, the palestinians in gaza would starve, and israel would be entirely to blame for the death of hundreds of thousands. it is entirely israel's fault that they completely destroyed gaza's economy (by blocking everything), and therefore their fault that the gaza strip is in the situation that it is. this doesn't sound very humanitarian to me.
- MH94, on 05/02/2008, -4/+10You can't nuke Israel without nuking Palestine! The remnants of Palestine are intertwined with Israel at this stage. Plus Nuking any place wouldn't help sh*t.
- jhbarr, on 05/02/2008, -13/+19Buried for inaccurate:
Rising prices and funding shortages have forced the United Nations to stop providing emergency food aid to more than 13 percent of the 750,000 Palestinian refugees it feeds in Gaza, a U.N. official said Friday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPqHBEPj4ksMsFd ... - thisissami, on 05/02/2008, -1/+7not somebody who is still alive. i would like to think that the world has progressed from feudal ideals, but apparently we haven't.
- besottedpenguin, on 05/02/2008, -6/+12If I was continually saying that I wanted to kill you and everyone like you, I would expect you to do something like what you said.
Why would Israel have to let anything through at all? The Palestinians say that Israel needs to be destroyed so Israel is somehow required to let supplies in to a territory that shows nothing but hate towards them? What's happening on the Egyptian border with Gaza? Why is that closed?
The Palestinians need to recognize that the little that Israel is doing is way more then they deserve until they stop their war on the Israeli people. - pintomp3, on 05/02/2008, -11/+17collective punishment is wrong and illegal.
- Argentian, on 05/02/2008, -9/+14I can think of many other things countries do that make them lower than whale *****.
- dkapuchino, on 05/02/2008, -4/+9"Palestinian Suicide Bombers Attack Gaza Crossing "
"Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, claimed responsibility for the attack."
"Saturday’s attack on the Kerem Shalom terminal, from where essential goods are transferred into Gaza, appeared to be part of a concerted campaign by Gaza militants against the border crossings."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/world/middleeast ...
I wonder why Israel wants to keep these borders closed. hmm, perhaps it because every time they open them, the Palestinians use this to kill more Israelis? - ManoWar, on 05/02/2008, -0/+5last i checked we the USA are paying for there food.
- pintomp3, on 05/02/2008, -4/+9FTFA "the findings are that the proportion of Gazan incomes now going on food is 66 per cent – significantly higher than the 61 per cent recorded for Somalia."
- monsieurginger, on 05/02/2008, -6/+11They released the video of the drone, it clearly shows that the terrorists own explosives blew up and killed the family of FIVE. Those that Israel killed were armed terrorists.
- sifuchar, on 05/02/2008, -7/+11Wait ... I could get paid? Who will pay me? Do you have their phone number? Can a tin foil hat really keep them from stealing my brain?
- Digger1218, on 05/02/2008, -5/+9Well, you were right about me being a paid shill. I'm a member of the paid boogeyman association. What the hell is a ziontologist? Did you make that up trying to be clever? You strike me as a college kid who's radical because his daddy who pays for his college is a republican. BTW I don't own a console and hate all three major candidates for pres. Also moved out years ago. I take comfort in the fact that you will do nothing but whine on the internet and take sociology classes online. Have fun in your fail.
- spongya77, on 05/02/2008, -5/+9Nice post. Thank you. I couldn't have said it without inserting an occasional "*****", ruining the message. :( It always works me up that people who are against antisemitism, racism, et al are so readily generalize when it comes to "the others" (usually Muslims). And without a flinch talk about "the Palestinian question", and spread lies and misinformation. The "blame the victim" mentality is just outrageous. (I wonder why Owden forgot to add, that there is no such a thing as "Palestinian"; it's usually the #1 point.)
- MH94, on 05/02/2008, -14/+18You just forgot to mention that these missiles and suicide bombers are in a way, an ill-conceived attempt at retaliation for the use of hundreds of thousands of missiles, tanks, war planes and helicopter air-raids, food and fuel blockade, political assassinations, as well as some of the dirtiest war crimes imaginable. Not to mention the insurmountable number of civilian casualties.
Just the fact that you have the word country in quotes shows the disregard you have to these human beings. Shame on you for using an over-played Zionist excuse for mass torture. - theright, on 05/02/2008, -7/+11"That means if you are silent or don't say yes or no, you verify that you are a paid/volunteer shill."
Being that delusional has got to hurt... - pintomp3, on 05/02/2008, -8/+12New blockade squeezes Gaza residents
Israel refused to reopen crossings or allow crucial fuel supplies into Gaza on Monday, despite UN warnings that vital food aid could be suspended within days.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0122/p06s02-wome.htm ...
is that inaccurate too? -
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