I myself don’t want to live in Montreal, but I do enjoy a visit once in a while.

The provincial conservatives where I live are trying their best to destroy that universal healthcare. It’s rather infuriating.

Not useless, surgical masks reduce spread by more than 50% so far as I recall. Not perfect, but not useless.

Nope, because you fail to understand how Israel denying the movement of aid into Gaza would be a bad look for them.

And Netanyahu is still a piece of shit who needs to be removed form power, but not for allowing aid into Gaza.

Now before you continue your mental circlejerk

Pot, meet kettle.

Money is considered aid, always has been.

And now you have an even worse humanitarian crisis, and a pissed off international community because you’ve denied aid to Gaza. Congrats, you’re a terrible world leader.

But unlike sending food, it is non-perishable, and can allow a country to buy what it needs. Money is aid.

No, they did factor in food and clothing. See QualifiedKitten’s response in the comments.

Money is aid. Money can buy food, and water, and whatever other supplies a state needs.

Given the thousands of rockets fired at Israel by Hamas from Gaza every year, the international community is understanding of a blockade being put in place.

Denying the passage of aid across that blockade however would be seen as far worse.

And the current air-strikes are a result of a large scale attack against Israel, so they are seen by many as justified. Though you can see most of the world now sees Israel as going too far. Thus proving that Israel can only get away with so much before their allies drop off.

Of course they lobbied not to sanction Qatar. Once again how would it look to the world if Israel worked to deny aid to Palestine?

And I never said Netanyahu was a swell guy, he needs to be removed from power as well as Hamas.

It wasn’t Israel funds being smuggled in, it was Qatari funds. And how would it have looked if Israel blocked official Qatari aid to Gaza?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Attacks_fired_at_Israel_from_the_Gaza_Strip_by_year.png

Rockets started well before the blockade it seems.

Just as the Gazans want to forcibly relocate the Israelis, most of whom were born there, and a large percentage have families that have been there for hundreds of years.

Both sides want to ethnically cleanse the other, yet idiots on this site seem to love to support Palestine only, and ignore their own attempts at genocide.

As a result of the 1967 war of aggression by the PLO. Palestine lost a war and still had a government that mandated the destruction of Israel as their second charter. So they weren’t exactly a friendly neighbor to Israel.

So extremely slowly? Gaza’s population has doubled in the last 17 years since Israel’s withdrawal.

If they wanted a parking lot they could have had it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Attacks_fired_at_Israel_from_the_Gaza_Strip_by_year.png

My mistake, but looking it up I also found out Palestine was firing rockets at Israel for years before the blockade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Attacks_fired_at_Israel_from_the_Gaza_Strip_by_year.png

The blockade was in response to the election of a known terrorist organization that was amassing weapons.

But hey, if you think it’s okay to try and murder Israeli civilians on the daily, why are you so mad at Israel killing Palestinian civilians? Seems pretty hypocritical of you.

Israel could have made Gaza a parking lot well before any hostages were taken if that’s what they wanted to do.