>>The incident with the Turkish ship worked out just as a the blockade runners had hoped, and in that sense I think the Israelis made a big mistake, but I think the blockade of Gaza or at least some attempt to control Hamas's access to weapons is the only rational thing to do.
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>Netanyahu thinks letting Iran establish a port on the Mediterranean isn't a good idea:
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Israeli+accuses+critics+hypocrisy/3105048/story.html>
>Blockade basics:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/03/gaza-is-blockaded-for-a-good-reason/>
>And, those esteemed humanitarians, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, have offered to "escort" vessels to Gaza:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=3119752And these are very good examples of my point that the greatest danger to peoples with legitimate grievances is that they will led by their worst elements and become pawns manipulated by those who do not have their interests and heart and who may be more prepared to sacrifice them than are their "oppressors". I think the Arabs who lived in Palestine prior to 1948 and their descendants may be one of history's greatest examples of that principle.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
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