{"id":54257,"date":"2014-07-30T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54257"},"modified":"2014-07-29T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T22:49:43","slug":"ellison-end-gaza-blockade-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54257","title":{"rendered":"Ellison: End Gaza blockade for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> has an opinion piece from Keith Ellison, the Muslim congressman, in which he tries to push the lie that if only Israel would lift the blockade of Gaza, the world would be peaceful, birds would sing and Skittle-shitting unicorns would run the Earth;<\/p>\n

I have traveled to Gaza three times since 2009 and have visited hospitals and schools there. As I have talked with ordinary Gazans, I have not encountered anyone representing Hamas. During one visit, I had the opportunity to meet Scott Anderson, deputy director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Anderson, a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Army, said it best when I spoke to him again this week: \u201cUnless there is material change to the status quo, you\u2019re just resetting the clock for another cycle of violence.\u201d Continuing to block goods and services to and from Gaza keeps the keys to opportunity away from the people who just want to live, work and travel. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d suggest that Ellison take up his rosy view for the future with Hamas. The blockade of Gaza only keeps out weapons and thing that Hamas can use against the Israelis, their geographic neighbors. And, oh yeah, everything that Hamas gets their hands on goes towards building tunnels to feed their obsession of killing Jews. They could use building material for schools and mosques, they could use labor for improving their infrastructure, but instead it all goes into the ground. Like I said yesterday, Egypt has destroyed more than 1600 tunnels along the Gaza-Sinai frontier through which Hamas smuggles war-making materials.<\/p>\n

Did I mention that Israel uncovered another arsenal of rockets hidden in a school in Gaza? Well they did<\/a>. And did you know that Hamas’ command center is under a hospital. Well, yes it is<\/a>. And apparently the media knows it, but they don’t think that you should know. You’d think that Ellison would think that it would be important to make Hamas to quit hiding their missiles in UN schools and not hide their commanders underneath a hospital.<\/p>\n

Hamas is only content when they’re killing Jews and nothing else matters. So the blockade continues for a measure of relative peace in Israel. But, Ellison, a Hamas-hugger, thinks that all of the violence will end when the blockade ends – just like he used to tell us that the violence in Iraq would end if only we’d pull the US troops out.<\/p>\n

There was violence before the blockade and there would be violence after the blockade ends. Just because Ellison didn’t see any Hamas when he went to Gaza (like I believe that) doesn’t mean they don’t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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