Israel has expressed outrage tonight following complaints from European Union Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton that they had failed to live up to their commitments to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Israel grudgingly announced the easement of the blockade in the wake of the May attack on a Gaza bound aid ship, an attack which killed a number of aid workers. Despite the pledge successfully calming criticism of the blockade for a time, Israel kept the system largely in place, including blocking the UN from building schools in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Information Minister Yuli Edelstein slammed the complaints, saying that Israel has done all they intend to do but that “there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” a claim which Israeli officials have been making since the blockade began.
Israel’s blockade has included a number of bizarre restrictions, including a blanket ban on chocolate and cardamom. Though Israel appears to have eased these bans somewhat, the more pressing issues of construction material, still banned after Israel destroyed half the strip in 2009, and a blanket ban on all exports, remain in place.
Mr. Edelstein, why don't you go there and live for a year and see how you like living with restricted resources.
SHAME ON ISRAEL!!!
Yes. It seems the Israelis are like most other humans. After being handsomely given gifts and special rights, and met with salutations, and seen as a victim, a corrupt, spoiled and lying creature emerges.
Some of the same goes with any "welfare state". It suddenly consists of much smaller people, with little care for fellows, and especially humans not known to them. Also the Americans started out as victims of the Empire, wich probably completely blinded them to their own.
How else explain the general acceptance of illegal bombings, torture, kidnappings, or 1 million extra dead Iraqi's?
To all partys involved.., EU or US.., there is no other language that Israel will ever understand then a international embargo of Israels goods and a political isolation.., otherwise the talks are been done for years by the EU and US.., if there is no action then Israel will dry the EU and US on their demands after demands and people of both continent will suffer. It costs the US tax payer 250.000 dollars per imigrant chosing to imigrate to Israel alone.., now think about all other donations that are made to Israel.
Actually that $250,000 per imigrant sounds pretty cheap if that immigrant is one of our dual citizens in the congress or senate. It is a nice thought but we will never get rid of the traitors like Joe Lieberman. We once had a system were they appointed senators. After looking at what we have it is clear this is another case of our founding fathers being genius. As an appointed individual the senator was interested in keeping his start happy. As an elected individual the senator only has to keep happy those that are funding his campaign which usually is AIPAC.
saying that Israel has done all they intend to do but that “there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” '
Of course because they are not the correct religion and anyone not the correct religion are not considered human. It is amazing what happens when a religions rules a nation. This is so much like Spain a thousand years ago. If they had wood in Gaza they probably would be putting people to the stake and burn them.
The only hope is that the USA finally stops funding the insanity in the middle east but given the fact that our prostitutes in the congress just gave the most overly armed nation on the planet free $98,000,000 stealth aircraft it will not happen.