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A.P. photo/ Hatem Moussa -- Haniyeh, head of Hamas in Gaza
A little noticed fact is that the standard of living in Gaza exceeds Egypt’s. And that is with the embargo on Gaza.
Israel’s recent easing of the embargo is because of any humanitarian crisis, which does not exist in Gaza. It is due to the success of Hamas and allies in misrepresenting the situation as a humanitarian crisis, mis-characterizing Israel as an occupying power with responsibility to take care of the people of Gaza.
“The ability of this Goebbels-type propaganda to entrench a tremendous lie in the consciousness of the international community testifies to the continued vulnerability of naive Westerners to sophisticated psychological warfare and to the complicity of much of the Western press in this enterprise.”
The successful propaganda exercise by the flotilla is as much against the rest of the West as against Israel. Radical Islam is probing the West, seeking to neutralize its power to resist takeover.
Easing the embargo strengthens Hamas. Hamas will take credit for the easing. It will, after all, distribute the new goods coming in. “Strengthening this radical theological regime…which is linked to revolutionary Iran, defies Western rational thinking.” Ironically, it strengthens the regime against its Fatah rival that the West, keeps asking Israel to make concessions to bolster.
Israel disengaged from Gaza five years ago. It had no embargo against it, then. Gaza had the freedom to develop itself into something worthwhile. Instead, it chose jihad and devoted itself to war by terrorism. It fired thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. It has not moral right to demand that Israel let goods through for its criminal war effort.
If Israel ever had occupation responsibilities [which I deny], it gave them up. Gaza now has made itself enemy territory. Its people chose Hamas rule. Israel owes it nothing and has the right to defend itself against it. A sovereign state “…has every right to close its border to a belligerent neighbor.” Israel has “…no obligation whatsoever to provide water, electricity, fuel or access to food and/or medical supplies to its forsworn enemies. Why on earth should Israel aid those that want to eradicate its existence?” Oh, to be “humanitarian?”
Israel should repudiate any obligation to Gaza and close its border completely, first giving a few months for Gaza to try to develop alternative supply routes. Let Egypt take on the headache (Prof. Efriam Inbar of begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, in IMRA, 7/4/10).
The concessions that the West asks Israel to make to bolster Abbas’ Fatah regime never cease being demanded. The notion of strengthening Abbas is a convenient excuse for an anti-Israel policy. Since he remains weak but stubborn, he always seems to need shoring up. And so his forces are being built up toward becoming the spearhead for a Syrian thrust into Israel. He would become part of the jihadist axis that has been attacking the U.S. The U.S. would not have Israel to help hold jihad in check.
The West no longer thinks rationally. It thinks ideologically, emotionally, and without regard to facts. It does not understand the universality of jihad, a jihad against all.
Mr. Inbar does not make it clear that hopes of making genuine peace with Abbas rests on other misconceptions and mis-characterizations of Abbas’ intentions and of phony distinctions between Abbas and Hamas.
(For an non-Zionist’s article finding no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, click here )
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