Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Pigs, Flying?

That's what I thought when I saw this headline from the AP:

Scared Gazans clamoring to enter Israel

Israel's new defense minister ordered the army on Wednesday to allow into Israel any of the hundreds of Gazans holed up at a fetid crossing who might desperately need medical treatment.
A teenager with leukemia was on his way through shortly after, the military said....

Wonder if they can vote for the return of the hated occupiers in their next election cycle - assuming Hamas ever allows another election, of course...

Anyway, you can cancel the flying pigs alert - the AP, rather than discuss the ironies and decisons that created the hordes of Palestinians clamoring for Israeli help, instead devotes much of the article to a complaint from a liberal Israeli group that this whole "humanitarian crisis" is actually not the fault of the rampaging Hamas militia, but the responsibility of Israel itself:

But the humanitarian cases are being processed dangerously slow, the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights contended in a petition before the Israeli Supreme Court.
Ran Yaron, a doctor with the group, told Israel Radio on Wednesday that the lives of 15 of the patients were in danger and the necessary treatment was not available in the Gaza Strip.


"Israel has a responsibility since it closed the ... crossings," Yaron said. "It has the responsibility to find a solution for these patients."

Let's see...the Israelis succumb to international pressure, leave Gaza to the Palestinians (complete with all infrastructure) and pay them millions monthly in tax revenue. The Palestinians then destroy all said infrastructure and elect a Islamists militant group to lead them, who then wages war against Israel and turns the Strip into a chamber of blood, fear, and death. Ergo, the responsibility lies with the Israelis...

Of course! Logic so subtle only a liberal (or the Boston Globe editorial board) can parse it for us....

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