nonessential necessities
Context?
But wait...
Food is allowed in; Gazans aren't starving. But tight restrictions remain on construction materials for rebuilding homes and public buildings and on many of the nonessential necessities of life (Israel recently lifted the ban on cigarettes). Israel has suggested three conditions for lifting the siege to Hamas, which controls Gaza: no more rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, no arms smuggling into Gaza and the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas in June 2006. The rocket attacks have pretty much stopped and the arms smuggling -- I am told -- is an issue that can be negotiated, but the fate of Shalit has been an insane sticking point.
But wait...
Gaza. Hamas. Get ready for it.As soon as he was inaugurated, the President went directly for the big prize: a comprehensive two-state solution. But the timing was lousy.
It might have been more profitable for Obama to have concentrated on trying to fix Gaza first.
But if Obama's policy really is about engaging our enemies, he needs to engage Hamas -- and Hamas needs to respond. Quickly.
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Michael Savage is on the radio discussing the Fort Jackson 5 Food poisoning investigation
ReplyDeleteIn the wake of Fort Hood - muslim soldiers trying to do harm to the military, the gov't refuses to accept the reality of Islam, kept this report under cover since December