Ellison: End Gaza blockade for peace
The Washington Post 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;
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: “Unless there is material change to the status quo, you’re just resetting the clock for another cycle of violence.” 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.
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.
Did I mention that Israel uncovered another arsenal of rockets hidden in a school in Gaza? Well they did. And did you know that Hamas’ command center is under a hospital. Well, yes it is. 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.
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.
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.
Category: Congress sucks, Dumbass Bullshit, Terror War
Which came first? The Chicken or the Egg? Well in this case we know what came first, and that was the Hamsa takeover of Gaza and their incessant attacks on Israel from Gaza, and in response came the Blockade.
Mr Ellis, should renounce the violence that has led to the blockade of Gaza and focus his energy on seeing Hamas dismantled. They are the true obstacle to peace in that part of the world.
He won’t though.
If the Palestinians laid down their weapos; there would be peace. If the Israelis laid down their weapons; there would be no Israel left.
Pretty much this, but there’s no politically correct way to say it, so our ever so correct media won’t.
Exactly right. Ellison is a known moron and Muslim apologist. Between Janos and Ellison Minnesota is having a bad week. At this point, and I know this will upset the delicate sensibilities of the folks here, but I wouldn’t care if the IDF continued to drive west driving all of Gaza’s residents into the sea. When that is done occupy it and resettle it as part of the Jewish state.
Could not have said it any better
+100!!!!
SPOT ON!!!!!!!!!
‘Hamas is only content when they’re killing Jews and nothing else matters.’
If they somehow managed – God forbid – to kill off the Jews, the next people they would go after would be Europeans and Americans. Count on it.
Bullshit!
For what, exactly, are you throwing the BS flag?
At Ellison…..
There will be peace in Gaza when Hamas stops lobbing rockets and mortars at Israel and digging tunnels. Simple concept really.
But then they’d have to hire a high-dollar (or sheckl, yen, Euro, or whatever) media consultant to help them devise a new mission statement, and spend millions on re-branding! Oh, yeah, and actually produce something other than mayhem, misery, and lining their pockets with looted aid. Ne-Vermind.
Minnesota is a fucking embarrassment and I live there.
I do, too, and I used to live in Ellison’s district. The commies have the population centers all wrapped up, but get out in the real world, outside the metro, and it’s pretty conservative.
This is not going to end any time soon, unless perhaps Egypt and Israel join forces.
Anything is possible.
Israel if you want gaza then just come right on in and take it! Hamas.
So much for all that peace you speak of all the time you worthless fuck. You are a selfish draft dodging piece of shit. You have blood on your hands you dumb leftist fuckwad.
And the projection of the draft dodging chicken shit war hawk comes into full view once again.
↑↑↑↑↑↑ Perfect description of VWPissedhispants.
They don’t want Gaza. They never wanted Gaza. What they want is peace. Unfortunately, Hamas wants to destroy them.
When they took the Sinai peninsula, it was because they needed a buffer zone against Egypt. When Egypt signed a peace agreement with them, they gave the oil-rich Sinai back the very next day.
You paint them as monsters because of your ignorance. Try watching this video, it might bring this into a little perspective for you.
Dear shit for brains,
For those of us (you) with the attention span of a mayfly, let me point out that Israel voluntarily gave up control of Gaza, which included expelling Gaza-resident Israeli citizens by force. That is, they already had Gaza, you blithering dolt.
This cycle of violence did not exist when Israel controlled the Gaza strip. They did everything they could to empower the Palestinians in Gaza, who used said power to elect Hamas so that organization could wipe out all the Jews in Israel.
As for Egypt, the last thing they want are nearly 2 million refugees as an extra burden on their economy, not to mention the radical islamofascists in charge.
I told you how to get peace. pay egypt to take gaza over! Otherwise the above statement stands! I am the solution person. Ever notice how the militarists are always telling the people who oppose war that they have blood on their hands not the war mongers!
What? WTF does that even mean? Pissed, you’re back on the meth, aren’t you?
It means stay off the thunderbird wine!
So, you are willing to pay the ONLY country in the entire region that actually honors its peace agreements to break that agreement?
What is Egypt supposed to do to anyone they find who launches missiles from schools and has their military headquarters under a hospital?