The United Nations continues to pretend that Israel woke up one morning and decided to invade the Gaza Strip. Their objective and fair members have spent much of the last week searching for ways to condemn Israel on humanitarian grounds, ignoring the fact that Israel i, you know, responding to an act of war. Israel, meanwhile, has genuinely tried to make life easier on teh Palestinians by sending in food and water and by trying to reunite Palestinian families. The Palestinians, on the other hand, would rather reject those gestures so they can demonize Israel:
Israel offered on Friday to allow the opening of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, to let 500 Palestinians, waiting on the Egyptian side of the border, into the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians rejected the offer out of their refusal to allow Israel to monitor the people passing through the crossing, Israel Radio reported. The offer was made out of humanitarian concerns, after the three-way crossing had been closed for nearly two weeks, since Cpl. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Palestinian operatives.
International law is a beautiful thing.
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