Am 05.01.2009 um 18:25 schrieb Dr Hillary Shaw:
> Can anyone tell us what is / should be the role of Egypt in the
> current crisis, and the Israeli blockade situation that preceded
> it. Egypt has a border, and a border crossing., into Gaza (Rafah
> crossing), and is surely in a geographical, if not economic,
> position, to send as much food etc into Gaza as is needed by the 1.5
> million people there. If economics is a problem, couldn't the oil-
> rich Arab states such as Saudi, Kuwait etc help Egypt out here?
>
> Of course there's also a political problem - how would Israel see
> these donations across Rafah from Egypt - would Egypt in fact be
> propping up Hamas, from the Israeli viewpoint? Would Israel in fact
> object, if it vcould be guaranteed that only food and other
> humanitarian aid, and not arms, was going in. Maybe idealistic, but
> maybe international observers at Rafah would be of use? Israel has
> shown it can beat Egypt militarily, but could scarcely use it as a
> war act if food and medicines alone were going in, and what would be
> the role of the USA here?
>
> I am of course by no means excusing any act of Israel here, but
> couldn't Egypt be encouraged to ameliorate the suffering of Gaza
> that lthen seems to have contributed to the rocketing of Sderot that
> in turn produced the current Israeli invasion. Or am I being just
> far too idealistic here? Maybe this would be seen as Egypt
> encouraging Israeli aggression (the blockade)? What do the rest of
> us crit-geoggers think?
>
> Hillary Shaw, Shropshire
it seems to be quite simple: Hamas has no interest in humanitarian aid
for palestinian people, neither by Israel, nor by Egypt. That's why
they bombed the convoys with food/medical stuff from Israel to Gaza
before the war, that's why they bombed their own people resp. the
border crossings when Palestinians tried to adopt the help. That's why
nobody shows up there anymore.
For some antizionist freaks here that is to easy to see. Would mean a
change of perspectives, what nobody really likes. Especially when you
need your enemy.
By the way: the term »genocidal Israeli practises« (former mails) is
to me an inexcusable derailment in judging the situation, esp. for
left folks.
thomas
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