The whole point in this Flotilla is just being sent to make Israels life miserable and to stick it to the Jews, nothing more. They can care less how poor Gaza is, even Tinmore admitted it is for political reasons, this isn't that hard to figure out. I'm just using countries like Somalia as an example that there are much poorer countries out there than Gaza but nobody gives a **** about them because there is nothing political there and no Jews to bother. And no Somalia does not control their ports, pirates and Al Shabab Islamic militants do though, Gaza has 10 times better government and support than Somalia, don't even try and compare the 2.
Make ISRAEL'S life MISERABLE?! Is that some sort of joke? How does a boat full of deadbeats make Israel's life miserable? Because then they're 'forced' to go pounce them?
No, what's actually miserable are the consequences of Israel's blockade on Gaza. But hey, don't take it from me.
the World Bank said:
In Gaza, the continued blockade has had a devastating humanitarian impact and severely damaged the territorys private sector, driving much of what remains into the informal economy. This situation will worsen so long as the near total prevention of external trade continues, making economic reintegration more costly and difficult.
West Bank & Gaza - World Bank: Concerted action needed by all parties for the PA to meet state-building goals
the World Bank said:
Modest recent economic progress achieved in the West Bank has excluded the 40% of the Palestinian population who live in Gaza. Following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June 2007, the crossings into the Strip remain sealed to all but a limited amount of basic humanitarian goods. With very few humanitarian exceptions, most of the 1.5 million Gazans cannot exit to Israel, or to Egypt. [...] Donors met in Sharm el-Sheikh in March 2009 in support of Gaza reconstruction. They are still waiting for the embargo on Gaza to be lifted so that they can translate their pledges into financial and/or project support.
West Bank & Gaza - Country Brief
NOBODY could come in and out of Gaza for years! They couldn't even
export anything. No foreign aid, either. THAT is miserable. No wonder they're going ******* nuts. But of course, it is Israel that can't be inconvenienced to remove these noisy boat-dwelling un-wanteds from "their" property. But hey, don't take it from the World Bank, they probably just wanna "stick it to the Jews," the only
possible reason anyone would disagree with
anything Israel does. How about, say, Oxfam?
Oxfam International said:
Many in the international community, including Quartet Representative Tony Blair, expressed hopes that this would lead to a major change and alleviate the plight of the palestinian civilian population in Gaza. However, five months later, there are few signs of real improvement on the ground as the ease has left foundations of the illegal blockade policy intact. In order to have a positive impact on the daily lives of the 1.5 million palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children, Israel must fully lift its blockade of the Gaza strip.
While the Government of Israel committed to expand and accelerate the inflow of construction materials for international projects, it has so far only approved 7 per cent of the building plan for UNRWas projects in Gaza, and of that 7 per cent only a small fraction of the necessary construction material has been allowed to enter for projects including schools and health centres. In fact, the UN reports that Gaza requires 670,000 truckloads of construction material, while only an average of 715 of these truckloads have been received per month since the easing was announced.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/p...opes-continuation-gaza-blockade-301110-en.pdf
Obviously Jew-haters. It just can't possibly be that anybody would give a shit about poor Palestinians - these Flotilla people must be going, taking a flight to get on a boat ride to
potentially get killed... because they wanna stick it to the Jew! Because who would want to help any country when you can find a single worse one. That's why I think anyone who donates any money or volunteers to help in Ethiopia is obviously doing it for political reasons, just LOOK AT HOW RICH ETHIOPIA IS:
No, no, no - I'm certainly not bothering with THESE people! I'm gonna assume that all of Ethiopia is like this and therefore needs absolutely NO help from me.
Anyway, as far as Somalia goes, you are entirely correct: One cannot even compare the two. Somalia has virtually been in a state of perpetual civil war for 20 years, it's not being occupied by a developed nuclear power that simultaneously blockades its borders and controls its coasts. They're in the middle of a friggin' civil war killing EACH OTHER. There's no question that it's worse, but so what? You think every person who goes and lends their time and effort to any humanitarian cause is motivated by dark political objectives if they're NOT at the worst possible place they can find?
This flotilla bullshit is just a bullshit political stunt and you know it.
