I was at a Gaza Freedom March meeting last night at which organizers mentioned two "Dear President Obama/Dear Sec’y Clinton" letters circulating in the Congress that support Gazans’ freedom from blockade, the emphasis in one being the materials that Gazans can’t get, in a form of "de facto collective punishment." In the other the emphasis is allowing young Gazans to get out to go to colleges. Here are the letters, signed by four brave congressmen, including Republican Robert Inglis of South Carolina; and here’s the Council for the National Interest’s urging of people to put pressure on their congressmen to sign the letters. And here is J Street urging the same action. Sign the letters. "Gaza in crisis. Act now," says J Street’s Isaac Luria.
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The language that they both used was “eased”. That is a different message than the Gaza Freedom March.
The means to significantly ease the isolation of Gazans remains the same, to reconcile with the PA, and pursue statehood as a moderate state, NOT as a revolutionary one.
So how come Palestine has to meet your requirements for moderation but Israel has a free pass to be as extremist, vicious and apartheid as they want?
Wittypocrisy.
If the requirements were only mine, they could be easily ignored.
There is walking path across a divide. Hamas doesn’t have wings.
The requirements are not yours, you are merely espousing requirements issued to you to evangelize about.
Anyway, everyone including Hamas in that region accepts the Arab Peace Plan. Only Israel does not. That’s clear enough indication who wants peace and who doesn’t.
So does who struck first on November 4th, 2008.
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