UPDATED:Is Hamas using Sanctions to starve their own people?

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 8:13 PM PDT

2010/06/03 · 20:13

Is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza? I think that is a certainty. Is it possible that Hamas is creating shortages in order to control the population? Perhaps.

Hamas has every reason to want the world to demonize Israel, and has every reason to want to import weapons again. The blockade and strict sanctions is working in that regard. However it really been a hardship for the people of Gaza. Shouldn't it be possible for Israel to flood Gaza with food, clothing, medicine and goods that are not military and still maintain sanctions against weapons?

Isn't in Israels best interest to make sure that there is more than enough AID getting through?

BuckM

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Thursday February 05, 2009 · 10:10 AM PST

2009/02/05 · 10:10

Human rights groups including Amnesty International admit that they ignore some war crimes.

If we believe in anything as a group it is that we know equal when we see it. We always try and see if the playing field is level. If Microsoft gets too big and is acting like a bully, we investigate and if proved to be true we do something about it. However if we thought anyone )Google?) was acting that way, it would only be fair to investigate them as well. It would be wrong to ignore some bullying. In court we bend over backwards to be fair to accused. You might even say that the basis for our society is equality or fairness.

So very often we use numbers to prove our point. We use links to human rights groups to show where our anger comes from. It would seem to me to be one sided if you only investigated what one side was doing, and almost ignored the actions of the other side.

It might obvious to some but if the war crime is “blatant”, then it does not need to be investigated. It is just a war crime... No press release, no investigation.

Of course if it isn't investigated then a good part of the population never gets to know about it.

BuckM

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Tuesday January 27, 2009 · 11:02 AM PST

2009/01/27 · 11:02

Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national event in the United Kingdom. Simply dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. Since January 2001, it has been on the 27th January. That date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union in 1945.

Although not a memorial day here, every year on this day, I do try and pause to think about what happened. I don't think about the six million jews who were slaughtered in histories worse attempted genocide. I don't don't think about the other 10 million victims of that war. My thoughts don't center around the massive cost to the future of humanity, the huge hole in advancing knowledge caused by the senseless war and the tyrants who caused them.

What I think about is the people just before the massive killing machines started up. I think about all the people who could not seem to see what was going on right in front of them. All the warning signs they missed. All the speeches and discriminatory laws they seemed to ignore.

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