Siege? What siege?
I don't know how Sderot Media Center's Jacob Shrybman ever managed to get this piece published by HuffPo but a brief look at the comments will show you that the piece is out of place there - it was viciously attacked (but I'm glad to see that he managed to get the truth into such a Leftist blog). So here are some facts and figures to help you the next time a moonbat tells you that there's a 'siege' on Gaza:Without questioning the apparent Gaza suffering, one has to ask what siege Ban is referring to, when, in 2009 the IDF Spokesperson reported that 738,576 tons of humanitarian aid was transferred into the Strip.Read the whole thing. The picture at the top is a Gaza City coffee shop. Looks like they're starving, doesn't it?
The UN claims there is a siege when it has given $200 million to Gaza following a military operation that left 1,300 dead and wounded among a population of less than 1.5 million, and yet has only given $10 million to Haiti after the natural disaster there claimed the lives of an estimated 230,000. Of course, that is without noting that Haitians have not been attacking an innocent nearby civilian population for nine years.
International humanitarian aid has been flowing freely into the Strip for years, and in no way stopped after Operation Cast Lead, as 30,576 aid trucks entered the territory in 2009 while in the same period, 4,883 tons of medical equipment was also transferred to it. This past month during the week of April 11-17th 500 trucks of over 17,000 tons of humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip.
The Strip has been called "the world's largest open-air prison" allegedly because its residents are not able to leave the territory. But in 2009, 10,544 Gazans and their companions left for medical treatment in Israel. This past month during the week of April 11-17th nearly 500 patients and companions crossed from Gaza into Israel for medical treatment, while another over 100 Gaza residents crossed into Israel for other reasons, and roughly 200 internationals crossed in and out of the Gaza Strip.
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Some US politicians as well, such as Congressmen Keith Ellison and Brian Baird, both of whom visited Sderot with the Sderot Media Center in February 2009 to see the impact of the rocket fire on the civilian population, have both promoted this myth by publicly calling for Israel to end its siege on Gaza and in this effort Ellison visited Gaza through the Egyptian border earlier this month.
They must be ignoring the fact that in Sharm el-Sheikh last year US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton allocated $900 million in aid to the Gaza Strip following Operation Cast Lead. At the same time, a USAID and Department of Defense report calculating the aid sent to Haiti as of last month put the figure at just over $700 million - nearly $200 million less than the Hamas-controlled territory.
Tragically, the international community has bought this media myth about some Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip while ignoring the facts and most of all equivocating this supposed siege to the obvious humanitarian crisis.
By the way, Brian Baird represents the district in which
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:56 AM
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the real reason that so many America Jews are liberal is because of Founder Effect.
Because the rabbaim in eastern Europe opposed going to the golden medina, the least committed Jews came in the great "Fiddler on the Roof" migration.
This meant that the creme de la creme of Jewry stayed and largely perished, but also the most predisposed to having gentile grandkids, having gay kids, ignoring the holocaust, condenming the rabbinical marchetc were the ones to have come.
Israeli leftists keeo urging Israel to end the "occupation" but not a single one of them demands Israel cut loose the apron strings of Gaza.
Hypocrites.
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