Hamas to blame for Gaza’s ills
To deny Israelis and their supporters a voice only allows the myths surrounding Gaza and the Palestinians to multiply. A couple of months ago, the deputy director of the Red Cross in Gaza stated publicly, and I quote, “There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. Let me repeat that: “There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” Gaza has two large shopping malls packed with luxury goods. It has swanky restaurants and country clubs. Not all Gazans share these benefits, but it’s not the Israelis who prevent them. The markets are full to bursting with foodstuffs. Every week, Israel sends 40,000 tons of produce into Gaza. Israel has a well-deserved reputation as a provider of international aid missions to regions hit by earthquake, flood or famine. It brings thousands of Palestinians to its hospitals for treatment every year. It is a generous country, as Haitians and Japanese can amply testify. There is one and only one reason for the cordon Israel places round Gaza: Hamas (deemed a terrorist entity by the US and the EU) has built and is still building a fearsome arsenal of weapons, including missiles, which it has clearly stated it will one day use to destroy the state of Israel. If the Irish Republic had suffered years of rocket fire from the North, would we really just lie back and say “let it come”? Those who participate in these flotillas do so for political reasons, not to bring aid.
In 2005, Israel left the Gaza strip entirely, pulling out its own people from their homes. The only thing left behind was a collection of greenhouses that were destined to be the basis of a prosperous future for the Gazans. They were worth over $16 million, paid by Jewish benefactors. Within a day or two of Israel’s departure, not a scrap of those greenhouses remained: they had been torn to shreds. Next, an armed terrorist group took control through elections held at the barrel of a gun and proceeded to murder dozens of its opponents. The scene was set for everything that has happened to the people of Gaza since then. So why do those who scream, about the evils of the “Zionist entity” single out for all the blame the one country that has tried hardest to improve the lives of Palestinians and never see wrong in the moral cesspit that is Hamas?
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