McClatchy Newspapers has obtained copies of documents previously filed in court by the Israeli government conclusively proving that the purpose of the blockade is economic punishment of the Palestinians for their election to power of the Hamas party and is not related to security purposes:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/09/95621/israeli-document-gaza-blockade.html<<Last week, after Israeli commandos killed nine volunteers on a Turkish-organized Gaza aid flotilla, Israel again said its aim was to stop the flow of terrorist arms into Gaza.
<<However, in response to a lawsuit by Gisha, an Israeli human rights group,
the Israeli government explained the blockade as an exercise of the right of economic warfare.<<"A country has the right to decide that it chooses not to engage in economic relations or to give economic assistance to the other party to the conflict, or that it wishes to operate using 'economic warfare,'" the government said.
<<McClatchy obtained the government's written statement from Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, which sued the government for information about the blockade. The Israeli high court upheld the suit, and the government delivered its statement earlier this year.
<<Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha, said the documents prove that Israel isn't imposing its blockade for its stated reasons, but rather as collective punishment for the Palestinian population of Gaza. Gisha focuses on Palestinian rights.
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Those lying fucking bastards lie all the time, usually to fool the moronic American public into supporting their every crime and atrocity. The American public foots the bill for all their shit, but the MSM, with all the money at their disposal, can't
OR WON'T get to the bottom of the Israeli government lies. A two-bit Israeli human rights organization, with a tiny fraction of the budget of any one major player in the US MSM, can dig out the documentary evidence of their blatant lies, but you know what? The nitwit American public will go on trusting their MSM as it swallows one Israeli lie after another and says virtually nothing about the river of "foreign aid" milked by Israel from the US taxpayer for their criminal shenanigans.