Israeli food(!) blockade of Gaza

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 12:31 AM PST

2008/11/12 · 00:31

According to BBC News the Israeli government continues to enforce a food blockage which threatens UN relief operations. The UN Relief and Works Agency (Unwra) is responsible for food distribution:

In a statement, Unwra spokesman Christophen Gunness said food distribution operations would end on Thursday unless Israeli authorities allowed deliveries of wheat, luncheon meat, powdered milk and cooking oil without delay.

"This is both a physical as well as a mental punishment of the population - of mothers and parents trying to feed their children - who are being forced to live hand to mouth," he said.

"It is a further illustration of the barbarity of this inhuman blockade."

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 1:38 AM PDT

2008/03/26 · 01:38

Given that both candidates had a realistic chance of nomination in this primary contest it was always likely that one group of supporters would be alienated by the eventual outcome.

Was there ever an outcome which might have ensured a harmonious Democratic party leading up to the GE?

Now that Hillary's gratuitous lies about her experience have rendered her candidacy dead-in-water, I want to suggest that even her most ardent supporters do not have the luxury of pointing to underhanded, or Rovian, tactics employed by the Obama campaign to plot her downfall.

From the Party's perspective, isn't this a most desirable outcome to a bitterly contested primary?

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