As Israel this week declared the "easing" of the four-year blockade of Gaza, an official explained the new guiding principle: "Civilian goods for civilian people." The severe and apparently arbitrary restrictions on foodstuffs entering the enclave - coriander bad, cinnamon good - will finally end, we are told. Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants will have all the coriander they want.
This "adjustment", as the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu termed it, is aimed solely at damage limitation. With Israel responsible for killing nine civilians aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla three weeks ago, the world has finally begun to wonder what purpose the siege serves. Did those nine really need to die to stop coriander, chocolate and children's toys from reaching Gaza? And, as Israel awaits other flotillas, will more need to be executed to enforce the policy?
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The World remains increasingly silent over living conditions in Palestine, as Human Rights violations continue to oppress the daily lives of all Palestinians. What a hue and outcry would these conditions raise if the people oppressed were Israelis, reports of a return to the Days Of Auschwitz and the "Nutritional Experiments" of the Nazis would be in every turn of phrase, instead we hear nothing of the cruel and inhumane tragedy that is the daily lives of the Palestinians, instead we are constantly reminded of the suffering that occurred in World War 2, and yet in this "modern" age, we cannot see the flagrant torture of the Palestinian people by the government of Israel. As human beings they should know better, as a people who have experienced "Nutritional Experiments" in the past they should not want to wish or be part of such gross inhumanity again. The pernicious destruction of the Palestinian economy only serves to further the daily injustices of life in Palestine, the inaction of global leaders in the face of continuing Israeli intransigence to provide humane living conditions for Palestine must be addressed. As has been done in the past with South Africa's apartheid regime so should be done internationally in regard to Israel's religiously based apartheid regime, a full and total Boycott of Israel. Boycott Israel Now.....beeden
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