Oppression?

I can't take credit for this as much of this is taken from an article written by Scott Wheeler from The National Republican Trust political action committee:

 

On June 9, President Obama announced a 400 million dollar aid package to the West Bank and Gaza, which are currently two separate entities; the West Bank under the control of Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate by radical Islamic standards, Gaza is run by the democratically elected Islamic Resistance Movement known otherwise as the terrorist group Hamas. Obama was trying to be sneaky in announcing this "aid package" to Gaza with Abbas present thus conflating the moderate with the radical terrorist group Hamas, a clear attempt to avoid scrutiny of handing over American's money directly to a terrorist organization that has murdered American citizens. Whatever else you can say about Obama, at least he never forgets his friends. Thanks to the investigative work of Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs we know that in 2007 Obama's campaign received over 30 thousand dollars in illegal donations from Hamas controlled Gaza.

 

Curious is the timing of Obama's announcement. Israel had just taken action against ships attempting to break its blockade of Gaza, which was put into place to stop the flow of weapons and war supplies that Hamas uses to attack Israelis. And Obama joined the rest of the Islamic world in condemning Israel for taking action to defend itself against terrorists who have not only killed Americans and Israelis but have declared that it would drive the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea.

 

Since 2001, the United States has listed Hamas as a "Specifically Designated Global Terrorist" organization. The sanctions for providing support for a SDGT are harsh.

 

Even the New York Times, which is as a rule sympathetic to terrorists, stated "The details of how the aid would be used in Gaza remained unclear. Nor was it immediately clear how Mr. Abbas, who has authority in the West Bank but not in Gaza would be able to administer it."

 

But, according to the Times, "White House officials said the money would be spent on housing, schools, efforts to provide access to drinking water and other health and infrastructure projects." Of course, with Americans providing all of their financial needs it frees up Hamas' other money to buy weapons and afford them more sophisticated means by which to smuggle them into the strip, no more raggedy flotillas for these terrorists.

 

Obama also used the occasion to attack Israel's blockade "there should be some way of focusing narrowly on arms shipments rather than focusing in a blanket way on stopping everything and then, in a piecemeal way, allowing things into Gaza." Even Obama himself acknowledges that supplies still get to the Gazans, Israel just searches the incoming vessels to insure that the cargo isn't going to be used to kill people. Apparently Obama thinks there is some other magical way to find the weapons among the "humanitarian supplies" other than looking through them. Here's a thought; how about you get no supplies at all until you stop smuggling weapons and murdering innocent civilians?

 

The Times reports that international aid organizations "working in Gaza have warned of growing hardship. Deprived of raw materials, local industry has been severely damaged, and the Gaza economy has collapsed." This account seems to suggest that the poor Gazans have absolutely no control over their situation, the fact is though that they went to the polls and freely elected Hamas agents to run Gaza. These poor victims elected representatives for themselves whose stated objective is to annihilate the Jews. But we should feel sorry for them anyway, Obama and the liberals here tell us the most evil crime in the world is racial discrimination and yet they take our money and give it to people whose sole objective for their existence is to exterminate a race of people. Welcome to Obama's world.

 

It needs to be pointed out that despite attacks by Hamas, Israel maintains an ongoing humanitarian corridor for the transfer of perishable and staple food items to Gaza. This conduit is used by internationally recognized organizations including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

 

Well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months equaling nearly a ton of aid for every man, woman and child in Gaza. Millions of dollars worth of international food aid continually flows through the Israeli humanitarian apparatus, ensuring that there is no food shortage in Gaza.

 

Food and supplies are shipped from Israel to Gaza six days a week. These items were channeled through aid organizations or via Gaza's private sector.

 

Large quantities of essential food items like baby formula, wheat, meat, dairy products and other perishables are transferred daily and weekly to Gaza. Fertilizers that cannot be used to make explosives are shipped into the Strip regularly, as are potato seeds, eggs for reproduction, bees, and equipment for the flower industry.

 

In 2009 alone, more than 738,000 tons of food and supplies entered Gaza. Pictures in local newspapers show local markets aplenty with fruit, vegetables, cheese, spices, bread and meat to feed 1.4 million Gazans.

 

In the first quarter of 2010 (January-March), 94,500 tons of supplies were transferred in 3,676 trucks to the Strip: 48,000 tons of food products; 40,000 tons of wheat; 2,760 tons of rice; 1,987 tons of clothes and footwear; 553 tons of milk powder and baby food.

 

In a typical week the IDF coordinates the transfer of hundreds of trucks containing about 15,000 tons of supplies. During the week of May 18, 2010 there were more than 100 truckloads of animal food, 65 trucks of fruit and vegetables; 22 truckloads of sugar, some 27 truckloads of meat, poultry and fish; and 40 trucks of dairy products. At holiday times, Israel increases transfers. During the Muslim holy days of Ramadhan and Eid al-Adha, Israel shipped some 11,000 heads of cattle into the Strip.

 

Yet all we hear from the media is how Israel is oppressing the people in Gaza.  How come we don't hear about how our federal government has, for decades, been "oppressing" minorities here.  After all, isn't the aid the Israelis send to Gaza the same as the aid that's given here as free housing, food stamps, free medical care, free cell phones, free cars, unemployment, federal grants for everything from education to electric wheelchairs, free job training, etc., etc.? 

 

Maybe we should all be "oppressed" like that.

 

Oh wait, isn't that what's coming?