Monday, January 21, 2008

Israeli fuel cuts cause hardship in Gaza

    Human rights groups condemned the fuel cutoff.

    The British group Oxfam called it "ineffective as well as unlawful." Gisha, an Israeli group that has fought the fuel cutbacks in Israel's Supreme Court, said "punishing Gaza's 1.5 million civilians does not stop the rocket fire; it only creates an impossible 'balance' of human suffering on both sides of the border."
Call me odd but when this
    The army said five rockets were fired on Sunday, down from 53 in the two previous days.


is in there. It sounds like its being effective. And where exactly is there a law that one state must suppoly fuel to another state? Particularly a state that seeks the destruction of the supplying state. Which is the real unlawful act.

UpdateAppears that Yahoo has decided to change the article since Israel has decided to open the border.

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At January 21, 2008 10:05 PM , Blogger The Contentious Centrist said...

The problem is that gaza is not yet a state and refuses to be a state... as long as it can weigh like an albatross on Israel's neck.

 
At January 22, 2008 3:25 PM , Blogger Gary said...

Good point

 

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