re: #39 Fozzie Bear

What is on the list and what isn’t is sort of baffling. Having said that, nobody is going to die because they can’t get frozen salmon or coriander. They have all the necessities, and alot of things that clearly aren’t needed to survive.

Clearly, Gaza isn’t starving, and equally clearly, some of the items not allowed into Gaza are harmless, and there’s no good reason to not allow them.

Well… a NPR reader knows the answer…

“”The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, told the Israeli media. Quote from a few years ago but still the Isreali objective just like the Nazis did feed the just just enough so they could still do work in the forced labor camps.”