Why Hamas Won Gaza – Bill Clinton
09 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics Tags: Gaza Strip, Palestine, West Bank
#OTD Peace activists #BDS @NZGreens @AmnestyNZ @GreenpeaceNZ must have no cell phone coverage. No other explanation for their silence?
31 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, political correctness
Does Israel Discriminate Against Arabs?
26 Oct 2017 1 Comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, discrimination, law and economics Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Palestine
Israeli settlements, explained | Settlements Part I
29 Dec 2016 2 Comments
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, international economics, International law Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, West Bank
What does peace negotiations offer in return
26 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Palestine
HT: Whale Oil
#WomensBoatToGaza @MaramaDavidson silent on Hamas rocket attacks
11 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Left-wing hypocrisy, Middle-East politics, New Zealand Greens
HYPOCRISY OVER GAZA
09 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, liberalism Tags: Gaza Strip, Middle-East politics
“Gaza is a concentration camp”? check out #ThankyouHamas video
10 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Middle-East politics, war on terror
Gaza’s border with Egypt? #EndGazaBlockade
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Egypt, Gaza blockade, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Oxfam inadvertently left the neighbour on the western border of Gaza off the map in its YouTube clip but not on its eastern border. An honest mistake despite the Arab Spring drawing the attention of Egypt and its politics to everyone’s ears including ODA activists.
The Gaza Strip has two borders: both Egypt and Israel restrict trade with the Gaza. Through this honest mistake in map reading, Oxfam blames Gaza’s problems on the Israeli blockade. I am sure it will correct its position once it reads a map such as the one adjacent which is identical to that in its YouTube clip in all but one detail. It has all of the Gaza’s neighbours on it.
We're currently helping ~700k people in #Gaza affected by Israeli blockade: oxf.am/gaza-crisis #EndGazaBlockade https://t.co/4BWdGDqo2F—
Oxfam International (@Oxfam) June 04, 2016
Any blockade of Israel of the Gaza Strip is not grounds to attack Israel because it can always trade across its border with Egypt but Hamas backed the wrong side in the recent Egyptian presidential election.
After the military coup, the military leaders closed 95% of the tunnels that connected Egypt to Gaza. In 2013-2014, Egypt’s military has destroyed most of the 1,200 tunnels which were used to smuggle food, weapons and other goods into Gaza, including flooding them with sewage. Egypt is setting-up a 13-mile buffer zone with the Gaza Strip. The includes clearing 10,000 residents from 800 houses.
Hamas derived 40% of its tax revenue from tariffs on goods that flow through those tunnels with Egypt. One estimate puts the economic losses at nearly a fifth of Gazan GDP.
The Israeli blockade of the Gaza may have something to do with Gaza firing missiles randomly at civilian targets in Israel. Hamas now murders Israeli citizens in the street in knife attacks.
The Gaza strip may have political differences with the Egyptian military dictators but it is not actually committing acts of war against them.
There is no good reason why Oxfam is not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza in the same way they protest against breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!Passing references to the Egyptian blockade in press releases is not enough.
No peace convoys attempt to break the Egyptian blockade. Plenty were launched against Israel. One reason is the Egyptians are rough customers. There is rule of law in Israel, none in Egypt.
The great Palestinian lie
06 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Palestine
@GreenCatherine more BDS hypocrisy on Gaza Strip @KennedyGraham
09 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: BDS, Gaza Strip, Left-wing hypocrisy, New Zealand Greens
Concerns must grow of mass kidnappings of BDS activists. There is no other explanation for their failure to protest with great vigour against the Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. Egypt has flooded the tunnels across its border with the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Strip has two borders: both Egypt and Israel restrict trade with the Gaza. The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is biting much more than the Israeli blockade.
Hamas derived 40% of its tax revenue from tariffs on goods that flow through those tunnels. One estimate puts the economic losses at nearly a fifth of Gaza’s GDP. This blockade by Egypt of the Gaza Strip has been regularly reported in the Guardian, so BDS activists must know of it.
No peace convoy has been launched to break this Egyptian blockade. Plenty were launched against Israel. One reason may be the Egyptians are a lot rougher customers. There is rule of law in Israel, none in the Egypt.
As the Guardian reported, Hamas’s decision to fire missiles at Egypt despite the risk of ringing upon themselves civilian losses owed as much to Egypt’s refusal to lift this blockade as it does to Israel’s.
David Brooks argues that Egypt is the real target of the Hamas missiles. After the military coup in Egypt, its military leaders closed roughly 95% of the tunnels that connected Egypt to Gaza which were used to smuggle food, weapons and other goods into Gaza.
Source: When Middle East Conflicts Become One – The New York Times.
RT @jeremycorbyn your friends in Hamas think stabbing a baby is heroic
05 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: British politics, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Middle-East politics, war on terror
To Hamas, all Israelis are "settlers." Here's their response today to murder of 2 Jerusalem men & stabbing of a baby http://t.co/SAmXXqhAK2—
Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 04, 2015
Some of our enemies are fighting our other enemies, whom we want to lose
26 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Israel, Middle-East politics, Syria, war against terror
"Some of our enemies are fighting our other enemies, whom we want to lose." http://t.co/JDP1UbyZWr—
William Easterly (@bill_easterly) September 25, 2014
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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