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No. It's clearly an unstable area. Why feed it?
Wow, Jared, are you feeling alright? Maybe its me . . . Nope, I ain't got a fever. Yet here I sit totally dumbfounded in that I find myself completely agreeing with Jared . . . Wonders never cease.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but they're only easing the blockade, not ending it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/world/middleeas…
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I don't know why they would ease it up now.
Its probably just Obama's hypnsosis wearing off on the left wing loons.
Maybe their hungry.
You know what bothers me? The picture that accompanies this topic! That picture is disturbing!
Most of the blockade is over pointless things and in general blockades of economic goods accomplish none of Israel's supposed goals here; other than that it punishes the people of Gaza for electing Hamas (and doesn't punish or weaken Hamas politically). It's very possible it worsens Hamas' military capacity to launch rockets, but that has little to do with economic trade goods and would be a legitimate control of commerce to prevent the shipping and smuggling of weapons to hostile or insurgent agents within a territory.
But I would assume a second longer term objective was to weaken the internal regime's base of power over its people by denying them economic development and rebuilding materiel. In which case it succeeds in denying them those goods, but doesn't do much else.