When Malaysia condemned Israel there was no mention why this blokade was done. It was to pressure the Hamas Terrorists from firing rockets and mortars into Israel. So tell me, is there no border with Egypt ? Why would not they ask for help jobs or energy from the Egyptians? Why do they want to continue using Israel's hospitals and energy? Guess the Egyptians don't want to be engulfed by 1.5 million or so Palestinians, joining up with the Moslem Brotherhood to overthrow their government.

You may not like Mubarak, but his actions in this respect are quite rational. He has no wish to strengthen a group of terrorist thugs. Murdering Jews is an ancient and respected tradition, of course, not to be condemned. There is a border between Egypt and Gaza, and Palestinians are not supposed to cross it. That is not a problem as there are no Jews there. It is not a siege, nor is it notably brutal. Israel has been pumping out the same amount of electricity as before. It is Hamas who have switched it off. For a long time now, Israel has been sending in supplies of food, medicine, and essentials. All this while the rockets have been raining down into Southern Israel. How brutal does that seem? Presumably neither Hamas nor the Palestinians who so gleefully elected them to power bear any responsibility for this. They are treated as people with no moral responsibility.

While the poor oppressed Palestinians of Gaza walk in and out of Egypt unimpeded, bringing back new televisions, mobile phones, huge quantities of cigarettes and other survival necessities, Hamas and their Syrian cronies are calling for more murder.



Hamas already 'governs' Gaza. Peace with Israel and the prospect of further peace through the West Bank would surely open the possibility of an immediate end to the pressure. Again and again the international community lays blame on Israel while remaining silent about the intransigence of the other side. Hamas is not a nice organization, its aims are totalitarian, its inspiration is an extremist interprtation of Islam, its methods show no distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and their refusal to enter into negotiations hurts the Palestinian people more than anything Israel does. Perhaps after 60 years it is time to accept the fact that political boundaries in other parts of the world have changed many, many times since Israel was founded, and no doubt will change again. It has always been the way of the world. In the case of Pakistan, brutally torn from India, to cater for the ancestors of the genocidal maniacs who invaded and settled in India. Or Istanbul, which was Constantinople or the current Kosovo being claimed by Albanians from Serbia. Better still our neigbourhood, Indonesia, where Indonesian New Guinea's problem is festering, which might likely lead to a new drawing of borders, I hope, as in the case of East Timor. Or even Kalimantan, another hope.

And recognize a few other truths, among them the fact that the UN has expended so much of its time demonizing Israel, is the same UN which created the original partition of Palestine, a partition which was accepted by Israel, but rejected instantly and violently by all the parties which have since used the same UN to condemn Israel's existence. Israel will always be condemned and the US will always veto any resolution against it, why? There are 57 OIC countries stacked against it plus innumerablee countries whose interests are vested in oil.

The 22 member Arab League are responsible for the continued destabilisation occurring in Gaza. Instead of immediately sending fuel and food supplies by the truckload through Egypt to Gaza to relieve their so called suffering Arab brethren, the Arab League is apparently happy for that crisis to continue to worsen as it chooses to play the political game, running off to the United Nations calling for it "to hold international investigations into the Israeli crimes." Resolutions or pious self serving declarations cannot end a humanitarian crisis. They will not turn on the lights or put food in the belly. The Arab League needs to wash its hands of Hamas and to show its complete repudiation of what Hamas supports and stands for. The League has become an accessory to endorsing the Hamas Covenant, which rejects Jews having their own state in the region and urges Jihad - not initiatives, proposals and international conferences, as the only solution.

The Arab League needs to expressly and unequivocally reject the alternative of Jihad. Unless the Jew-hatred endemic in the Arab League, Gaza's Government and its population is ended, Gaza is in for a tough time and the Arab League will have to share the major responsibility for allowing a deteriorating situation to become far worse. There can be only one truth, according to Arab politicians and apologists, and it belongs to them: Palestinian refugee's function is to hang around and be constantly useful as a goad .

The same is the lie about "illegitimacy" of the blockade :"Prof. Michael Krauss of George Mason University Law School pointed out in a commentary last year when Gaza was designated "hostile territory" by the Israeli cabinet. If Gaza is territory under the control of the enemy, as it manifestly is under Hamas then the Israeli government is both within its rights and arguably obliged by its responsibilities to its citizens to treat the strip as "hostile territory." Siege and blockade of a hostile territory is a legitimate tactic of war, used in declared and undeclared (e.g., Cuban) conflicts and explicitly recognized by the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The Conventions' sole limitation is that there be "free passage of all consignments of food-stuffs, clothing and tonics intended for children under fifteen, expectant mothers, and maternity cases" (Fourth Convention, art. 23) and even this exception was conditioned on there being "no reasons for fearing [t]hat a definite advantage may accrue to the military efforts or economy of the enemy" (for example, if resources destined for humanitarian aid will be commandeered by the enemy). Israel has carefully respected this requirement.

Israel is starving no one. No one responsible has suggested cutting off food supplies to Gaza, which, ironically, exported food (grown in Israeli-built greenhouses, which were demolished by Palestinians after Israel's withdrawal) before 2005. In addition, Israel is not a party to Additional Protocol I (neither is the United States). Even if that treaty bound Israel, the official commentary to the Protocol does not preclude the right to blockade a declared enemy. In cases of siege the Protocol provides for relief of besieged civilians "subject to the agreement of the parties" (art. 70) does anyone think Hamas will sit down with Israel anytime soon? Similarly, the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court can be read to make it a war crime to deprive civilians of "objects indispensable to their survival" (art. 8 (2) (b) (xxv)). But Israel is not a party to the Statute and, in any event, the context of the provision makes it clear that it refers back to the Geneva Convention's "food-stuffs, clothing and tonics" for children and pregnant women, which Israel is not blockading but which, in any event, Israel is certainly not obligated to itself supply."

When Hamas fires missiles into Israel, they create a state of de facto war with the Jewish state which has to take fierce counter measures. Gazans can hardly be immune to the consequences. Palestinian Terrorists continue to have it both ways. They will fire weapons at Israel when it suits them, knowing there will scarcely be an outcry in the West, and then cry foul when Israel retaliates, knowing that gullible do-gooders will swallow their lies. This is the war of propaganda that the Arabs have waged for so long and which, with the help of the BBC and liberal do-gooders, they are sadly winning.

As soon as Israel allowed the convoy of fuel into Gaza, the 'Thanks' that was offered was 7 missiles fired at Israeli citizens. Israel is the only country in the world that is supplying fuel and other resources to a 'territory' that is openly hostile to it and firing missiles at its citizens. It is obvious that the responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of Hamas who control the territory and de facto control the firing of missiles (regardless of which group fires them) Immediately prior to the closure close to 200 missiles were fired over three days. If the Palestinians think they can fire missiles and expect 'business as usual' vis a viz the supply of basic necessities then they are deluded. Its very simple - Hamas prevents the firing of missiles and the supply of fuel, food etc. through the Karni crossing can resume at normal levels - it couldn't be simpler -edit.

This is a letter from Israel -edit. Your prime minister is the last person on earth to teach the Israelis about humanity and equality while his regime is discriminating Malaysian minorities like the Indians in your country. I can prove many cases. Continue to this Israeli's letter in Malaysiakini, which I posted for posterity in my blog .