Billo_Really, Hollie, et al,
Oh Billo_Really, --- our friend "Hollie" is on target with her two commentaries.
The blockade was a requirement to prevent Pal'istanian islamic terrorist attacks. The Islamic retrogrades were committing acts of war. That caused Israel to respond. You seem to believe your Islamic retrograde heroes have an entitlement to acts of Islamic terrorism. Israel believes otherwise, hence the Islamic retrogrades are throttled.
The blockade was to punish Gazans for not voting for Israel's ***** (Fatah), in their elections.
BTW, defending your home from foreign aggression, is not terrorism.
Conspiracy theories aren't going to help your failed arguments.
BTW, in the relevant first worked, we don't accept Islamic terrorist acts of war as defending anything.
(COMMENT)
On the matter of terrorism as a means of defense, "Hollie" is correct! As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s said: "
Nothing can justify terrorism —
ever. No grievance, no goal, no cause can excuse terrorist acts." When the Hostile Arab Palestinians (HoAPs) attempt, though deadly asymmetric means, to intimidate or coerce the Israeli civilian population as a strategy to bend Israeli National policy to the will of the Palestinian --- that is terrorism. To attack the civilian population to affect or influence the conduct of the Israeli government --- that is terrorism. Noting that terrorist attacks by means of bombs, explosives or other incendiary or lethal devices have become increasingly widespread, and stressing the need to supplement the existing legal instruments in order to address specifically the problem of terrorist attacks carried out by such means, is illegal (
A/RES/51/210. Measures to eliminate international terrorism).
Remembering that: UN
Security Council Resolution S/RES/1624 (2005)
Calls upon all States to adopt such measures as may be necessary and appropriate and in accordance with their obligations under international law to:
(a) Prohibit by law incitement to commit a terrorist act or acts;
(b) Prevent such conduct;
(c) Deny safe haven to any persons with respect to whom there is credible and relevant information giving serious reasons for considering that they have been guilty of such conduct;
Calls upon all States to cooperate, inter alia, to
strengthen the security of their international borders, including by combating fraudulent travel documents and, to the extent attainable, by enhancing terrorist screening and passenger security procedures with a view to preventing those guilty of the conduct in paragraph 1 (a) from entering their territory;
Calls upon all States to continue international efforts to enhance dialogue and broaden understanding among civilizations, in an effort to
prevent the indiscriminate targeting of different religions and cultures, and to take all measures as may be necessary and appropriate and in accordance with their obligations under
international law to counter incitement of terrorist acts motivated by extremism and intolerance and to prevent the subversion of educational, cultural, and religious institutions by terrorists and their supporters;
There is absolutely no legal basis for the use of terrorism to in the false justification you present.
On the matter of the blockade as a punishment "Gazans for not voting for Israel's ***** (Fatah), in their elections." This is entirely false. It was a propaganda effort by the HoAP to filter the truth and redirect the dialog in a different direction. Between 2005 (the Unilateral Withdrawal from Gaza) and 2009 (establishment of the Blockade); the Islamic Resistance Movement launched some 7300 missiles and rockets into Israel. After the Blockade is instituted, in concert with strengthened border controls (per UNSC Res 1624), the number of missile and rocket attacks dramatically dropped.
Our friend "Hollie's" observations were on track. The institution of the Blockade had nothing what-so-ever to do with political punishment. Yes, there was grave disappointment that the Palestinian People voted in a Terrorist organization into a leadership role. After January 2006, there was a sharp increase in rocket and missile attacks; doubling from the 2005 level to the 2006. The number of launches again doubled in 2007 by the 2006 levels. And as you can see from the chart, there was a significant increase in launches in the year 2008 over the year 2007. BUT, in January 2009, the Blockade is activated and the number of launches decrease by over 75%.
Of course the Blockade was not a perfect solution, but it was fairly effective as a single countermeasure to the infiltration of weapons; complementing well other security countermeasures that were instituted that year.
Most Respectfully,
R
