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Originally Posted by hiredgun
If you look at the list of goods restricted, it is obvious for anyone with eyes to see - really, truly obvious, and I dare you to say otherwise - that a primary purpose of the blockade (along with keeping out weapons) is to deprive the Gazan population as political leverage. Make of this whatever you will. Many sanctions regimes work this way, and sometimes they are preferable to the alternatives. But please do not deny it or offer 'weapons' as a misdirection.
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And why not? If elections are held as a means of representing the wishes of the citizenry, the choice of Hamas wasn't exactly the most inspired. What kind of backward thinking does it take to elect a 'government' that you know is incapable of competent governance, is for the destruction of Israel, and is really only capable of bringing further pain and suffering to Gaza? And why wouldn't you as a concerned, responsible citizen who just voted in Hamas speak out against them after they started murdering members of other palestinian political parties??