re: #563 drcordell

I’m not saying there’s an ulterior motive. I’m saying the entire reason that Israel enacted the blockade for one reason, and one reason only. To stop the rocket attacks. And guess what? By that metric The fucking blockade has failed.

Hamas still gets its weapons. They get to profit from the smuggling of all the goods that can’t be imported because of the blockade. And Israel furthers its isolation from the international community.

Nonsense, the blockage dramatically reduces the number and size of rockets that the Hamas terrorists are able to import. Hezbollah is supplied by the same nations, Iran and Syria, and due to there not being an effective blockage, they have much more deadly ballistic missiles to fire at Israel.

What is needed is an end to the weapons smuggling from Egypt as well, but the blockade is vital. Besides the obvious propaganda value for people like you to imbibe, the obvious motivation is to open up a sea route for weapons that are too big to smuggle through tunnel. Hamas does not have a reliable over-land route for this as does Hexbollah.

If you were not biased you would see this, it’s obvious.