Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Another canard against Israel debunked

For years misguided liberals and fascists asserted that Palestinians were led by violent, despondent, blood-thirsty men only because of Israeli occupation. Then Israel voluntarily withdrew from Gaza and violent Palestinian men continued to send their children, social outcasts, and even grandmothers to homicidal deaths.

Israel has taken heat for its security wall around Gaza. The wall is supposed to demonstrate how intolerant Israelis are of their Muslim neighbors. But Israel isn't the only country with a realistic understanding of Palestinian aggression. Last night the security wall separating Gaza and Egypt came down, and hundreds of thousands of Gazans have flooded across the border into Egypt.

Yes, Egypt erected a wall against its Muslim, Palestinian neighbors. Yes, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians today demonstrated that Egypt, for all its faults, is an immensely more desirable place to live than the hell hole their oppressors in Hamas and Fatah have built for them in Gaza.

Now, perhaps I missed something, but I don't recall ever having read in the mainstream media about Egyptian intolerance of Palestinian Muslims. Nor have I heard of the overwhelming desire of Palestinians to go any place, even Egypt, that is not Gaza. Why, I wonder?

UPDATE: It appears that most, though not all, of the Gazans have returned to Gaza after buying food and other necessities. Of course, the media attributes the scarcity in Palestine to Israeli policy. However, history teaches that embargoes starve people only when they coincide with tyrannical leadership.

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