Pledges are empty words as Israeli siege continues

Billions of dollars in reconstruction pledges from the Saudis and Americans is all very well but when the necessities still have to be smuggled in through tunnels it is meaningless. As we have been pointing out on this blog no reconstruction has been taking place because the Israeli criminal state (collective punish is illegal) has been refusing to allow in heavy lifting equipment to start removing the rubble and damage let alone rebuilding anything.

"John Ging, head of the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) in Gaza, said they were currently not even able to get donated food and medicine through.

Unless the crossings are open we cannot expect any improvement in the situation here," he said.

And of course if and when the aid pledges are transformed into facts on the ground it will supposedly be threw the corrupt hands of Fatah - whi have been in bed with the US and Israel in their plans to destroy Hamas. But the Palestinian Authorities does not exist in Gaza either in physical form - Israel destroyed all the buildings - or institutionally. So how is that going to work. As Hamas political adviser to prime minister Ismail Haneyya , Dr. Youssef, pointed out yesterday:

the organizers of the Sharm Al-Sheikh conference on the Gaza Strip who invited Salam Fayyad to represent the Palestinian people went to the wrong address, saying that Fayyad [Fatah] represents only the international and American will.

Hillary Clinton talks about 'a significant aid package' but refuses to put any pressure on Israel, or Egypt for that matter, to opens the crossings. As such they are accomplices to the crime of collective punishment. Yesterday Blair said he was appalled by the damage and destruction in Gaza but still refused to deescribe the Israeli war on Gaza as disproportionate, instead preferring to talk of the 'violence emanating from Gaza'. The man is a total waste of space.

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