[lit-ideas] Re: Attacked - The New Republic
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Simon. It's comforting to see that there are
still people who can do the Google search on their own
instead of waiting for someone else to do it for them.
(And blaming them if they don't.)
Omar
--- Simon Ward <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stan: What economic blockade are you referring to...
>
> I'm dumbfounded that this hadn't been noticed. Try a
> Google search on "Gaza
> Economic Blockade".
>
> Actually, I'll do it for you Stan:
>
>
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Gaza+economic+blockade&meta=
>
> There's a Guardian article dated in April:
>
> "An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined
> with rusting vehicle
> parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a
> mule and cart. This is
> Gaza's economic lifeline, the Karni crossing into
> Israel, which is supposed
> to handle 1,300 containers of merchandise and food
> per day in order to
> sustain 1.3 million people."
>
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1754847,00.html
>
> Christian Aid:
>
> Cases of malnutrition among Palestinian children
> under five years of age has
> more than doubled in the past year because of the
> Israeli security blockade
> Christian Aid has revealed.
> A Palestinian medical charity funded by Christian
> Aid says this is a direct
> result of the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip
> imposed by the Israeli
> government.
>
http://christian-aid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/020307p.htm
>
> Washington Post:
>
> The war-torn Gaza has been more hurt by the Israeli
> economic blockade and
> the closure of checkpoints connecting the territory
> to Israel than by
> Israeli bombardments in the last few days. We hear
> reports of economic
> difficulties from Gaza: rotten vegetables,
> electricity breakdowns and
> problems at schools throughout the region.
>
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/mikio_ikuma/2006/07/lets_face_the_economic_reality.html
>
> And these are just three from amongst those websites
> that I thought might be
> appetizing for you Stan. In fact so easy was the
> search that I can only
> believe you were attempting to bluff Omar into
> thinking that you really
> didn't know about the blockade. I mean, how could
> Israel do such a
> thing...how could it create a ghetto.
>
> Simon
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