...the incident is an indictment of a much broader policy toward Gaza for which Israel
does not bear sole responsibility...
International condemnation and calls for an inquiry will come easily, but many who will issue them must acknowledge their own role in the deplorable treatment of Gaza that formed the backdrop to today's events. the policy of isolating Gaza, seeking to turn its population agauinst Hamas, and endorsing a "West Bank first" approach was
not an exclusively Israeli one.[...]
[...]...opening the humantarian tap is not an approapriate answer to a policy whose fundamental premise is morally callous and politically counter-productive. Instead,
Gaza should be open to normal traffic with adequate international end-use monitoring.
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