The Gaza Blockade Protesters Are Playing Us.
The term useful idiots comes to mind when one thinks of the protesters support of the “Peace Activist Massacre“.
The con continues and everyone bites…
Here’s a bit more of how bad life is in Gaza..
Yet if you walk down Gaza City’s main thoroughfare — Salah al-Din Street — grocery stores are stocked wall-to-wall with everything from fresh Israeli yogurts and hummus to Cocoa Puffs smuggled in from Egypt. Pharmacies look as well-supplied as a typical Rite Aid in the United States.
“When Western people come, they have this certain image of Gaza,” said Omar Shaban, an economist who heads Pal-Think for Strategic Studies in Gaza. “We have microwaves in our homes, not only me, everybody. If you go to a refugee camp, the house is bad, but the people and the equipment are very modern. The problem is the public infrastructure.”
The Israeli blockade — which activists were trying to pierce Monday when nine died in a melee at sea with Israeli commandos — is designed to deny weapons to the Islamist Hamas group and weaken its authority. A vast array of items — from concrete to coriander — have been blocked from entering the territory, and few residents are allowed to leave.
June 4th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Of course they are playing us. The useful idiots will lap it up. I am old enough to remember the apologists for the Soviet Union especially at Queens University in Kingston.
Since then I have had no use for Queens in the humanities because they are STUPID.
June 4th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I find it alarming that this originated in Turkey. There is a theory that the former Ottomans who ruled the region for 500 years might be trying to re-establish their influence in the Muslim world. If this was an isolated incident it might turn out okay, if it is a byproduct of Turkish government policy, we are in big trouble.
June 5th, 2010 at 9:57 am
I’ve seen the list of items banned for import to Gaza and it is a long list, many items which I already have at home.