re: #341 marjoriemoon

I mean that the crunch hasn’t worked with Cuba or with North Korea. Or Iran, for that matter. The only time the ‘crunch’ could be said to have worked was with the Soviet Union, and I think that was actually much more a cultural thing.

Gaza does get a ton of aid, but they really do have a shitty, screwed up economy, too; it’s hard to have a thriving one when a fucked up band of thugs is in charge and busy scavenging the infrastructure and goading the Israelis into attacking.

By any rational logic, the citizens of Gaza should have already rejected Hamas.