Wednesday, January 23, 2008
If you push people, people will push back
When Israel "gave" Gaza back to the Palestinians, they kept a few privileges for themselves, like using Gaza as an artillery and bombing range and a live fire maneuver area. They also left a wall on the border between Gaza and Egypt. As a result of Israel's latest border lockdown on Gaza, a group of Gazans finally had enough and destroyed seven miles of wall around the town of Rafah, opening the border with Egypt. The initial result was that Palestinians were once again able to buy food, cigarettes and other goods in Egypt, without any limits except what they can afford. It is too early to tell where this will end but it is difficult to see any return to status quo ante. With Bubble Boy in the White House, Olmert might try, because without a closed border Israel's campaign of intimidation on the Palestinians doesn't work. We can only hope that Bubble Boy remembers that Olmert was the guy who didn't give him any bling on his last trip and says "fugeddaboutit".
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