The second border crossing
Here’s an instance of the Arabs in Gaza being waiting behind a locked fence to be allowed temporary exit from their hellish imprisonment and blockade by Israel which has shut their border crossing. Er... one small detail. As happened last January, they are actually leaving here through Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt, which is opening it for three days.
Question: when does a sealed border with one country cease to exist in the western media mind?
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ndm
July 2nd, 2008 5:55pmMelanie Phillips asks and answers:
-- Question: when does a sealed border with one country cease to exist in the western media mind?
-- Answer: when the country controlling the other border is Israel.
No. Wrong answer. But Melanie Phillips knew that because in the preceding sentence she wrote that it is being opened for THREE days.
As Melanie Phillips knows full well "ceases to exist" implies a permanence certainly not provided by a three-day opening.
Mark Pollock
July 3rd, 2008 3:05amNDM, The Egyptians know the violence and damage that Hamas would inflcit on them and like Israel have no viable choice but to keep them contained. The brief Egyptian border opening was negotiated as a humanitarian gesture after which the border was again sealed. It is foolish to imagine that the problems of the Gazans are purely of Israeli origin.