Maryam said:
Geldan I would think that the closing of Gaza as the article points at would be enough to show that through this it does not allow for any kind of trade or food to come into Gaza… is this not evidence enough?
Evidence of being security conscious for Israel? Yes. Evidence the PLA is reaping what they sowed (or didn’t, since they never bothered to grow their own food or develop an economy, despite billions in aid)? Yes.
If this is not collective punishment then what is?
My answer is, so what? The so-called palestinians have chosen to make bombelts instead of growing corn. They chose to elect a government that doesn’t believe Israel has a right to exists. They chose to send their children onto loaded buses with bomb-belts to kill innocents.
Also, its the PLO… not PLA (I repeated the spelling erro)… and many Palestinians have complained about the corruption from them, but, you don’t see it on the 9 o’clock news.
Actually it is the PA. The Palestinian Authority. My error.
How do you want a people to have a food source with corruption,
Why did they allow the corruption to continue? Is it not their own responsibility to see they need to eat and growing food was a posititive, productive thing to do instead of exporting bomb-belts into Israel?
constantly Israeli military invasions and no support from the world community?
From where I sit, you seem to make these people sound like they are 100% incapable of A) being peaceful and ceasing their terrorism against Israel and B) unable to survive on their own. If they are too helpless to tend to their own food needs, how in the world can they be expected to manage their own state?
And for the one millionth time… there are CHRISTIAN PALESTINIANS also having to suffer through the invasions, curfews where they aren’t allowed to leave their homes and so on…
So? No one is making them stay. No one is making them support Hamas. No one made them support Arafat. No one is preventing them from inserting themselves into the political process–oh wait, Hamas might be.
This is what angers me… I have been to the West Bank and have seen the checkpoints, the humiliations and refugee camps…
From where I sit, if you were angry with the promoters of terrorism and for what they’ve subjected the people they claim to represent to–then you’d be angry at the appropriate individuals.
It is very easy to say all Palestinians are for terrorism when you don’t even have firsthand experience of life there.
It sure is easy to say. It’s also easy to say, “when you support terrorism, bad things are going to happen to you.”
Yes, I know the world is a cold and dark place… I have seen it… don’t need to be told so.
Good. Then you agree the so-called palestinians will be better off the minute they reject terrorism, correct?
Unless you have seen what is going on over there with your own eyes… then you can judge.
I think I can judge from afar. I can read and comprehend fairly well. Terrorist doesn’t like jews, wishes Israel was no longer in existence, sneaks onto bus with bomb-belt and detonates it, killing innocent people. I can understand why they are in the shape they are in.
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