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
The track record of the United Nations Human Rights Council
13 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Left-wing hypocrisy, United Nations
Principled BDS activists have been the subject of mass kidnappings
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Amnesty International, BDS, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Left-wing hypocrisy
Can there be any other explanation for why the BDS activists are not protesting in the streets against these summary executions by Hamas other than mass kidnappings.
What else is stopping them from protest against these flagrant human rights violations and calling for boycotts, disinvestment and sanctions against the Gaza Strip? Kudos to Amnesty International for finally putting out this report.
Still further evidence of mass kidnappings of peace activists
27 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Amnesty International, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Left-wing hypocrisy, Middle Eastern politics, peace movements, war crimes
Publishing this report during the Gaza war rather than many months later might have left Amnesty International with the semblance of impartiality.
According to UN data, more than 4,800 rockets and 1,700 mortars were fired from Gaza towards Israel between 8 July and 26 August. Around 224 projectiles are believed to have struck Israeli residential areas.
It does not take months to work out that rockets and mortars fired at civilian areas with the deliberate intention of killing civilians and terrorising the Israeli population are in contravention of the international rules of war. The sound of air raid sirens and civilian casualties in Israel should have been sufficient evidence for an immediate report by Amnesty International last year.
The only explanation as to why peace activists aren’t out in the street today protesting against Hamas for these war crimes and calling for International Criminal Court indictments and citizen’s arrests is mass kidnappings. The only explanation as to why peace activists aren’t out in the street today protesting against Hamas for these war crimes and calling for International Criminal Court indictments and citizen’s arrests is mass kidnappings.
The only explanation as to why peace activists aren’t out in the street today protesting against Hamas for these war crimes and calling for International Criminal Court indictments and citizen’s arrests is mass kidnappings. The only explanation as to why peace activists aren’t out in the street today protesting against Hamas for these war crimes and calling for International Criminal Court indictments and citizen’s arrests is mass kidnappings.
There is no other charitable explanation as to why they are not on the streets today in solidarity, for example, with the above 2009 peace demonstration in London. The 2014 Gaza conflict left a total of at least 2,189 Palestinians dead, including more than 1,486 civilians, according to the UN. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers were killed along with the six civilians.
The war crimes of Hamas
17 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Further evidence of mass kidnappings of peace activists
02 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: activists, Egypt, Gaza blockade, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Left-wing hypocrisy
Egypt is doing more work to set up a 13-mile buffer zone with the Gaza Strip, after it discovered hundreds more tunnels running from the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave into the Sinai Peninsula. The plan includes clearing 10,000 residents from some 800 houses. Egypt has already destroyed over 1600 smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip and is constantly on the lookout for more.
Where is the international protest is regarding this continued blockade of the Gaza Strip? Why haven’t the peace activists taken to the streets across the globe to protest at this blockading the Gaza Strip?
The only possible explanation as to why these principled peace activist are unavailable to take to the streets is mass kidnappings. This blockade by Egypt of the Gaza Strip and its intensive long-term dimensions has been regularly reported in the Guardian, so they must know of it. The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is so intense that Hamas has resumed trade with Israel.
Of course, once you start discussing the Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip, you must discuss what Hamas is doing to remove it, which are well-known.
As the Guardian reported, Hamas’s decision to carry on fighting in in the recent war recent weeks despite catastrophic civilian losses owed as much to Egypt’s refusal to lift this blockade as it does to Israel’s. Egypt wanted Hamas to accept an immediate ceasefire without preconditions. Hamas wanted Egypt to spell out how it might ease the siege before it would agree to a ceasefire.
Even the Guardian occasionally mentions who was the real target of the Hamas missiles fired at Israel. Where are the peace activists? Kidnapped?
Double standards on terrorism
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Leftover Left, Osama bin Laden, war on terror
Egypt to double size of ‘buffer zone’ along Gaza border
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: blockades, Egypt, Gaza Strip, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy
Where is the international protest movement? Once again, the only explanation is that they must have been kidnapped.
There is no other reason why they are not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in the same way they protest against the breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!
More homes face demolition as Egyptian security forces warn people a buffer zone with Gaza is to be extended.
‘Inside Story’, Al Jazeera, 5 December 2014
Egypt plans to double the size of a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip.
The [Egyptian] government says the measure is intended to put an end to the movement of armed fighters and weapons from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The first phase of the operation began in October, days after 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a checkpoint close to the Gaza border.
Thousands of people in northern Sinai were ordered to move out. Their homes were then bulldozed and bombed. The buffer zone runs for about 13km along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The first phase cleared an area 500 metres wide, destroying homes and tunnels used for smuggling. The security buffer is…
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