re: #438 drcordell

I might add, who do you think the blockade benefits? Have you ever thought to think about who is benefiting from the fact that all goods have to be smuggled into Gaza?

Guess who controls all of the smuggling tunnels! Hamas!

Guess who profits from every single object that flows into Gaza in the smuggling tunnel. Such as the smuggled cocoa puffs mentioned in that washington post article? Hamas!

Don’t you get it? Hamas fucking LOVES the blockade. It makes Israel look bad so they can rile up the Gazans. AND it grants them an almost unlimited license to profit off of smuggled goods! It’s a win win! And you support it!

As Bibi himself has stated — yes the smuggling happens, and yes Hamas is able to get weapons and profit from the smuggling. But that is NOTHING compared to the flow that would rush into Gaza if the blockade were removed.