Re:Google To Invest Millions in Palestine
by jacobmg on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:00PM
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Because you side against the blockade because you either don't believe the Israeli reasons why the risk of not blockading are serious enough to warrant something as harsh as a blockade, or you just don't care about the consequences for the Israelis either way. The former is far more complicated than a casual observer could know offhand and the latter is obvious one-sidedness which speaks for itself. Take you're pick.
FYI: The food restrictions were never of a nature that would cause malnutrition, that is propaganda. If you know even a bit about the issue you know the Israelis have reasons for blockading construction material, so the question is if you are neutral, why you don't believe them.
I'm pretty neutral on the conflict as a whole (I'd need to know way more to have a real opinion), but I'm pretty certain I'm against the Israeli blockade of Gaza[1].
It's pretty hard to build stuff when you can't import cement, steel, or glass. And the food restrictions have contributed to malnutrition in Gaza.
They did finally ease the restrictions in June (after 3 years), so I think it's a lot better now. I can't find a list of what's still not allowed.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932010_blockade_of_t...