[lit-ideas] Re: Attacked - The New Republic

  • From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:56:10 -0400

Dear Omar & Simon:

I see both of you are very clear about how bad the Israelis are. Bad Israelis. Good Palestinians. Bad economic blockade. Poor starving Palestinians.

True, the Palestinians are suiffering. But what caused the blockade? Was it because the bad Israelis wanted to hurt the poor suffering Palestinians? Or was it because they were cutting off the route into Israel that was used to tunnel in and kill Israelis and take prisoners?

Who caused the problem? Don't tell me the bad Israelis caused the problem in moving to defend themselves.

Take a look at Hamas and the way they operate. They hide missiles and explosives in homes, children's bedrooms, under the beds of the elderly -- and then when the bad Israelis respond to where the missiles came from and blow up the source -- homes of the elderly and children -- they confirm how bad they really are.

Your view of this is a real soap opera. Bad and good. The bad Israelis and the poor suffering Palestinians. Even I -- bad Jew that I am -- feel bad about the suffering of the Palestinians. The Palestinians have been used by other Arab states,m by Hamas and Hezbollah, to help make the case for how bad the Israelis really are. Bad Israelis. Poor suffering Palestinians.

Of course, you never read the article I sent. At best, you read the first paragraph. Bad Israelis. Anything that defends them has to be bad. Bad Israelis.

Who, by the way, elected Hamas? Bad Israelis or poor suffering Palestinians?

Is Hamas looking out for the best interest of the poor suffering Palestinians? Or are they looking to make their case against the bad Israelis?

Bad Israelis. Bad Israelis. O my!

Stan Spiegel
supporter of the bad Israelis
Portland, ME



----- Original Message ----- From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Attacked - The New Republic


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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