Wag the Dawg
Over at Dawg’s place is a post about the nasty Israelis blockading Gaza.
Here’s what the Palestinian Authority has to say:
Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah accused Hamas on Tuesday of staging the latest blackouts in the Gaza Strip in a bid to win sympathy and incite the Palestinian public against Israel and the PA.The officials said that contrary to Hamas’s claim, there is no shortage of basic goods, medicine and fuel in the Gaza Strip, largely thanks to the many underground tunnels along the border with Egypt. jerusalem post
As I have pointed out at Dawg’s: 1) there can be no blockade without Egypt, 2) if you shoot rockets you are lucky if a blockade is all you get, 3) this is Kabuki designed to appeal to Guardian readers and aging lefties.
There is something rather touching about the ceaseless naivete of the Dawg and his fellow pro-Pali lefties who fall for every Hamas propaganda stunt regardless of the facts. In an earlier era they would have stepped over the corpses to praise the worker’s paradise of the Soviet Union and the many splendors of the Cultural Revolution. Now they have to content themselves with supporting violent, anti-Semitic, misogynist, homophobes bent on genocide. Unfortunately, it is not much of a stretch.
Aaah, the old righty trick of claiming an argument has been won by comparing lefties to communists! It never gets old! Or stale!
C’mon, Jay, do you think The Troubles were solved by building a wall? Was apartheid in South Africa solved by severely restricting border traffic between cities and towns and demolishing the homes of the families of protest leaders as a regular practice?
You’ve missed the whole point of the article anyway:
Any country whose people who has to build underground tunnels to get basic food and medicine because the state they live in has declared war on an entire civilian population (and yes, vice versa) is, well, not what you seem to think it is.
Jay. Jay. Jay…all this lefty hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth over Gaza/Palistine has nothing to do with historic and political realities, it’s simply an outlet for their overly active emotions…think of it as displaced emotional discharge and you’ll have the proper cogitates to logically dismiss it.
The dogmatic lefties through, use any social conflict to envoke the Marxian David and Goliath class struggle gambit…so essentially the doctrinaire lefties stir the emotional pot and the faithful “feelers” respond with their out pouring of emotional bondage to this mythos.
It gets tiring seeing this debasing lefty tent meeting phenomena play out in the information age where all the refuting evidence is as handy as a few mouse clicks…but no, they prefer the mythos of the eternal underclass struggle against injustice and the emotional politics that entails…its a security blanket for the puerile intellect.
Well, they fell for the Jenin “massacre”, al-Durra hoax, and the famed “candlelight assembly meeting”, held in broad daylight with the curtains closed. This is just another chapter in the “I Guess Being Over-educated Doesn’t Give One Critical Thinking Skills” book.
Funny how the left (and the far right) are also joined at the hip regarding Trooferism and fall for any evidence of “false flag” operations, etc. THIS recent theater is rather the equivalent of third-grade dress up day and they STILL believe it.
Renee, I would argue the “Troubles” were solved by the death of one generation and the rise of the Irish economy. As for South Africa, do you really think that “apartheid in South Africa (was) solved?” It was certainly abolished but if the current situation in South Africa is the solution I can’t imagine what the problem was.
As for the tunnels, food, fuel, television sets, live cattle are a by-product of the tunnel’s main purpose, the continued supply of arms to Hamas. But, as I point out to Dawg, the border under which they are dug is not controlled by Israel – it is controlled by Egypt and could be opened tomorrow. As the PA points out, this is entirely orchestrated for the media.
“the old righty trick of claiming an argument has been won by comparing lefties to communists!” Actually, Renee, I was noting that Western lefties fall over themselves to avoid seeing the behavior of the regimes they align themselves with. There is no comparison between an apparachik of the old Soviet Union or a cadre in Cultural Revolutionary China and Guardian readers – the former would shoot the later in an instant and think the world a better place without the Kumbaya singing and fellow traveling.
And remember Gaza was controlled by Egypt before the 6 day war, and they sure do not want it back!, Hamas and only Hamas is the sole reason for the blockade. They had their chance when Israel left the strip, but what did they do, continued to attack Israel.!
Gaza = 139 sq mi
PEI = 2,194 sq mi
Gaza = 1,482,405 people
PEI = 139,407 people
...As for the tunnels, food, fuel, television sets, live cattle are a by-product of the tunnel’s main purpose, the continued supply of arms to Hamas…
No, it’s just the capitalist (ie human) response to half the population of Alberta crammed into a space 10×13 miles. If, you know, you consider these people humans.
Thanks Alan – I guess that explains the tunnels in Hong Kong and Singapore (or most other urban areas). But wait, what do you mean there are no… Oh, never mind.
The tunnels are a reaction to a closed border – they are not the invevitable result of population density. So, one might ask, why is the border closed? Well, because the nations bordering on Gaza don’t trust the population or the people in charge not to either engage in violent uprisings, attempt to subvert the legitimate authority of those other nations, or otherwise make a nuisance of themselves. The fact that it is not only the evil Zionist Entity who takes that elementary precaution is demonstrated by the fact of a closed border (with underlying tunnels) between Gaza and Egypt.
LOL! That is stunningly dumb. I suppose you can wait for the fall of Hong Kong to the tyrant in a few decades to learn the simple lesson.
But thanks for the grade 8 history-esque schtick. Give it a good hug for me.
Alan: you seemed to have missed the point by the proverbial country mile: high population density isn’t necessarily a road to poverty.
Care to put the Class Clown hat away and answer the point?
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