Re: The Myth Of Occupied Gaza

Peter Webb wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you happy to change your opinions if your "facts" turn out to 
>>>>> be wrong?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.btselem.org/english/gaza_strip/gaza_status.asp
>>>>
>>>
>>> That site does not claim that Israel is stopping anything or anybody 
>>> entering or leaving Gaza, other than weapons.
>>
>> That site clearly states:
>>
>> "Air space and territorial waters: Israel continues to maintain 
>> complete control over the air and sea space of the Gaza Strip. Control 
>> of the air space provides Israel with the ability to effectively and 
>> easily control actions on the ground, and to interfere with radio and 
>> television broadcasts.
> 
> It doesn't actually say that Israel does any of those things. It says it

> gives them the capability to do it, but not even this very biased site 
> actually claims that Israel does this.
> 
> 
>> Control of the coastal area and territorial waters enables Israel , 
>> among other things, to restrict the activity of Palestinian fishermen.
> 
> Of course, not even this biased site claims that Israel does any of 
> these things; merely that it could if it wanted to.
> 


Biased? I guess anyone who is not celebrating the murdering of 
Palestinians is biased.



>>  Israel 's control is also manifested in the need to obtain Israeli 
>> approval to operate a sea****t and air****t, the lack of which impairs 
>> freedom of movement to and from the Gaza Strip and impairs the 
>> Palestinians' conduct of foreign trade."
>>
> 
> Of course, not even this site claims that Israel has actually restricted

> the right to construct them.
> 

This site does not have to. Gazan fishermen canot even venture into sea 
to fish.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6047764.stm

"Every night off Gaza beach you can see the lights of fi****ng boats 
rising and falling in the swell. But they are defying an Israeli ban on 
all Palestinian fi****ng, and Rami al-Habeel knows how dangerous that can 
be."

Therefore, tehre is a ban on fi****ng, and those who dare to go out to 
find food risk being murdered by Israelis.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=99701

So, nobody can deny that the terrorist state of Israel is committing 
gross human rights violations



> I also find it interesting that this site talks about the potential for 
> Israel to block TV broadcasts in Gaza (which it has never in fact done),

> but doesn't mention anything about Israel actually blockading anything 
> at all, not even weapons funnily enough.
> 


So, this site does not even mention that Israel is blockading weapons. 
Therefore, stupid people can conclude that Israel is not even blockading 
the entry of weapons.

VV