And If Israel Really Had Closed Off the Gaza Strip? So What?
One would think that with famine in Africa, bird flu in South East Asia, anarchy in South America, there would be many looming "humanitarian crises" that the international media might concern themselves with. But guess what obvious propaganda they're instead obsessed with repeating:
This is a crisis manufactured by the Palestinians inflicted on the Palestinians, but let's imagine that it wasn't. Let's imagine that Israel had actually closed off the whole Gaza Strip, instead of just one crossing. Why shouldn't Israel close off the Strip? In the last 5 days, two major and well-funded terrorist groups have declared their intentions to launch immediate and long-term terrorist attacks - and they're explicit that they won't stop until they achieve the descruction of the Jewish State:
Running the Palestinian Authority will not deflect Hamas from its overriding goal of pursuing a long-term struggle with Israel, the leader-in-exile of the militant Islamist movement said in Damascus... "We and the Zionists have a date with destiny. If they want a fight, we are ready for it. If they want a war, we are the sons of war. If they want a struggle, we are for it to the end," the Damascus-based leader Meshal declared. "We have more stamina than Israel and we will defeat it, God willing," he said.
And while the PFLP and Hamas are busy promising to send terrorists to murder Israelis, Fatah is actually sending murderers into Israel right now. So let's say that Israel actually decided to stop making these people's lives easier - say, if Israel told Egypt that Egypt should send food through the Egypt-Gaza border instead of the Israel-Gaza border. Wouldn't that be, like, justified by the Palestinians' promises to destroy Israel? At some point, it stops being "collective punishment" and becomes "reacting to a large number of people who want to kill you".
This is a crisis manufactured by the Palestinians inflicted on the Palestinians, but let's imagine that it wasn't. Let's imagine that Israel had actually closed off the whole Gaza Strip, instead of just one crossing. Why shouldn't Israel close off the Strip? In the last 5 days, two major and well-funded terrorist groups have declared their intentions to launch immediate and long-term terrorist attacks - and they're explicit that they won't stop until they achieve the descruction of the Jewish State:
Running the Palestinian Authority will not deflect Hamas from its overriding goal of pursuing a long-term struggle with Israel, the leader-in-exile of the militant Islamist movement said in Damascus... "We and the Zionists have a date with destiny. If they want a fight, we are ready for it. If they want a war, we are the sons of war. If they want a struggle, we are for it to the end," the Damascus-based leader Meshal declared. "We have more stamina than Israel and we will defeat it, God willing," he said.
And while the PFLP and Hamas are busy promising to send terrorists to murder Israelis, Fatah is actually sending murderers into Israel right now. So let's say that Israel actually decided to stop making these people's lives easier - say, if Israel told Egypt that Egypt should send food through the Egypt-Gaza border instead of the Israel-Gaza border. Wouldn't that be, like, justified by the Palestinians' promises to destroy Israel? At some point, it stops being "collective punishment" and becomes "reacting to a large number of people who want to kill you".
