Tribesman

Is that a new strain of the flu you have as it appears to have affected your mind.
The flaws were obvious, there was no digging needed.
The fact that you won't even look shows that it is you who has the problem, it could best be described as blind belief which is something you earlier ridiculously claimed to avoid.
It is you that is trying to hide MH.
You are so desperate to avoid the truth of the issues that you fall back to the rather useless default position which is increasingly meaningless.

On to Penguin
You must have, after all there is apparently only MH and the other here so you must be the other

I know, he does raise some good points on some issues, on many though he clearly appears to be certifiable.

And???????
Would you like to go through it piece by piece, after all it might be the best way to show the inconsistancies in its compilation and thus its questionable validity as a definitive report on the legality.
For example.....
What did yo think about the waffle included about the historicalmaritime trade under different situations and how in any way they could be relevant to the issues in hand given the nature of the changing staus the territory has undergone and the difficulty in defining its present status.

Exactly, and given the admitted lack of input and the existance of other delivered and ongoing reports which also variously lack input it raises questions of the validity of the findings of this report without even looking at it, when you read it the inconsistancies and questions mount at a rather rapid pace.

In this case the nature and the status are core to the issue.

Israel has already made that descision, the crossing when open even at full capacity cannot accomodate the required tonnage and the changes in the restrictions show that they know their definitions of contraband at the time were wrong.
Both those issues show Israel knows the questionable legality of the blockade at the time yet are pretty much skipped over in the report.

So your issue is with some crazy statements made elsewhere.

Yes, sugar can be used in very nasty ways, should it be banned?

You mean cement. Like the red cross said, you can obtain cement ....at a very very high price from hamas as they are smuggling piles of it into the territory.
Which of course as well as touching on the humanitarian aid angle also comes back to the legality issue regarding effectiveness of the blockade, after all if Hamas is able to maintain their own imported supply and sell on their surplus it means that the effectiveness is not only "not really effective at all" but is also counter productive.

Probably because "siege" is bandied around in the media a lot, rather like your earlier "starvation" instead of malnutrition.
Slightly OT but in relation to another word youmentioned "holocaust", did you see the open letter to Fox news complaining about Murdochs network insuting Jews and diminishing the horror they faced as well as spouting the tired old anti-semitism that everyone hoped would be consigned to history by now?


Basics, one state or two?
Each has its major benefits and each has its major problems.
The current 3 bits is too much like another partition fiasco from the same time and is in fact a result of what quite frankly must have been one of the dumbest political suggestions of the last century.
But to go on the two state basis as you want to avoid the minority rule problems that came about in that other mandated territory to the North.

Settlements...got to go , making "facts on the ground" makes only one fact, they are illegal and if you want to make a settlement based on legality and claim to be following international law then they have to go without question.
Besides which they are too expensive to maintain, after all thats why the unilateral pull out went ahead in Gaza.
What to do wih the illegal settlers is simple, apply the absentee laws to the huge stock of vacant housing in Israel itself and that will also lower the housing/welfare subsidies and security cost.

Priorites. Syria, biggest problem. Forget Iran for now as Syria is more important to sort. Once again illegal settlements have to go and annexation is illegal since the Nazis fell. Demilitarisation of Golan must be guaranteed with teeth and international pressure must force syria to get rid of its WMDs and guarantee a negotioted equitable agreement on water rights.
Leb, simple screw Hezballah by pulling out of half the remaining village and turn the farms area over to Lebanon, that removes their "legitimate" claims, brings compliance on another issue and pulls the rug from Syria. If you stop feeding the beast it will weaken, keep piling it with fresh food and it gorges. Don't forget that Hez is a product of a proxy war that was the product of a proxy war.

Hamas, heres the bugger, Trimble could have given a few pointers on this. You have to talk to them, you have to make concessions to them and you have to demand concessions from them. Nothing will be achieved otherwise and the current state of affairs is simply unsustainable for all involved.
The same arguements which are now being used against this process are exactly the same arguements which have been used against the same process every time up until the point that they get past the dumb obstinacy and do it.

Would you like to go on to the other States which are still officialy at war with Israel or explore the proposals put forward by the wahibis ?