On Wednesday night, Israel halved the Gaza Strip fishing zone as a form of collective punishment against the Gazans. Officially this was retaliation for fires started by incendiary balloons.
Of course, the people launching the balloons are not the same people who need to fish. The blockade severely limits Gaza’s access to food, and taking the exterior half of the fishing zone will more than reduce their fishing output by half.
Israel has regularly used fishing limits to “punish” the Gazans, and dangles increases of fishing as an incentive to get their way.This is always temporary, keeping Gazans on a more or less permanent diet.
The incendiary balloons are an ongoing problem, but again Israel’s response is to attack people unrelated to the balloons. It’s likely to be popular domestically as they are doing something, and punishing the Palestinians is politically a safe choice.
The Jewish State wants it all.
You are correct, but the Palestinians also want it all.
As they should.
1.There were always some Jews living in the area since biblical times.Would you expel them? Saladhin recognized and tolerated them-you would evict them.
2.There were many Jews who lived in the middle east since Roman times, and were expelled by the Islamic neighbors in the 1940’s and 1950’s. This was after centuries of enduring the second class status as Dhimmis-a vicious Jim Crow like treatment. They came to Israel. Would you expel them as well? Send them back to Iraq,let us say, so the warring Sunnis and Shiites could kill Jews instead of each other?
3.Some lands were purchased by European Jews during the first half of the 20th century-would you void these purchases 70 years later and evict their descendants?
1.There have always been some Jewish people living in the area since biblical times. Would you expel them as well?
2. during the 1940’s and 1950’s, apx 600,000 Jews were expelled from the Islamic world, where many of their ancestors had resided since before the birth of Islam.Would you expel their descendants?
3.During the first half of the 20th century, many European Jews PURCHASED land in what is now Israel. Would you expel their descendants?
Israel needs to stop fishing boats going out far where they can rendezvous with ships carrying weapons that Palestinian terrorists want to use to murder Jews.
Do the Palestinians get to stop Israel from importing weapons to murder Palestinians, or is that a one-way street?
The Palestinians are squatters and have no rights. They are lucky to be allowed to live there.
This is taking hasbara to a whole new height.
They are descendants of squatters who lost that 1948 war that they were heavily favored to win. They didn’t due to their inferiority and were graciously given land to live on and work. They being lazy and unskilled didn’t want to farm and wanted handouts. They were given some but wanted more and more. When they didn’t get what they wanted they threw rocks. This cannot continue. They are not getting their land back which wasn’t theirs in the first place. So what do they want. Even that overweight Ahed Tamimi gave up on them and fled to Western Europe.
Which part of “bootin buddin is a mediocre sarcasm troll” memo have you not grokked yet?
What! Hootin is my hero.
He’d have to improve to reach “mediocre” status.
The halving of the fishing zone was done in response to the balloons and had nothing to do with any attempt at smuggling in weapons. Practitioners of budding Apartheids like using collective punishment because they can.
“Apartheid” is good when the other guy wants to kill you.
Or Apartheid is the reason the other guy wants to kill you. Or when you’re the brutal caretaker of an outdoor prison.
If a neighbor of different ethnicity moves next to me, I have no right to question it. If European Jews bought land nearby to an Arab village, that is their right,and they should not have been molested in any way.
The history of the Jewish minorities in the Islamic world had some instances of decency,compounded with a great deal more bitterness. Massacres, forced conversion, special taxes collected with a brutal face slap,ect,ect ect. Special laws-no Jew may ride a horse,less his head be above that of a Muslim. No Jew may leave his abode while it is raining, less the pollution wash off onto a Muslim.
“The history of the Jewish minorities in the Islamic world had some instances of decency,compounded with a great deal more bitterness.”
And the same can truthfully be said of the history of Arabs living within the jurisdiction of, or in territories occupied, blockaded, or coveted by, the Israeli regime.
They are victims of the European and Islamic persecution of the Jews. However, when someone down the roads build a farm-do you sneak around at night and molest hem? This is what happened. The 1929 Hebron massacre helped set the tone. Both sides got more and more ruthless.