Blockades and Humanitarian Crises

It seems to me that if in fact the United States supports Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which it does according to recent statements by Robert Gibbs, Sec. State Clinton, and Vice President Biden, that it should be HIGHLY CRITICAL of TURKEY for promoting the violation of that blockade, much less offering an active, not passive, defense of Israel’s actions against it. Certainly everyone feels bad that there were deaths and injuries, but when you commit an act of war, and running a blockade is an act of war, you cannot expect to be received with flowers and not violence. When you use violence yourself in attempting to run the blockade, even more so.

There are those who believe the blockade to be illegal. Certain consequences follow if that is the case including the illegality of any efforts to maintain it. If you are among those people, no defense of Israel is going to be acceptable. I personally think that the blockade of Gaza is a security necessity for Israel, as does the United States, and as such it is indeed LEGAL and justifiable as a necessity in on ongoing military conflict. If you disagree, you disagree. I’ll accept that not everyone will agree with me.

Now if you rattle on about “the humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, know this. While Israel probably should increase what it allows into Gaza, if for no other reason than to lessen the necessity for the average Gazan to use the smuggling tunnels which fund Hamas and provide it significant control and influence, Gazans are no where near in the humanitarian crisis that daily faces the population of other nations and many are in no humanitarian crisis at all. Take a look at this video of the Hamas elite in Gaza suffering away posted AFTER Operation Cast Lead:

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