Comments on: NEWS & OPINION: After the siege of Gaza http://warincontext.org/2008/02/19/news-opinion-after-the-siege-of-gaza/ ... with attention to the unseen Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jacob Freeze http://warincontext.org/2008/02/19/news-opinion-after-the-siege-of-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-1367 Jacob Freeze Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:22:26 +0000 http://warincontext.org/2008/02/19/news-opinion-after-the-siege-of-gaza/#comment-1367 For some strange reason, Egypt and the Egyptian guards at the Rafah crossing and the wall beyond it have been endowed with a moral neutrality entirely disconnected from the effect of the wall. Palestinians have no real friends anywhere, but for the last 60 years repressive Arab governments have been able to use Israel as a bogeyman to distract their immiserated populations from corruption at every level. Egypt is a case in point, with a tiny elite enjoying all the good things of life, while the desperately poor majority transfers all its frustration onto the scapegoat, Israel. All the walls around Palestine are morally equivalent, and the Palestinians have no friends on the other side of any of them. For some strange reason, Egypt and the Egyptian guards at the Rafah crossing and the wall beyond it have been endowed with a moral neutrality entirely disconnected from the effect of the wall.

Palestinians have no real friends anywhere, but for the last 60 years repressive Arab governments have been able to use Israel as a bogeyman to distract their immiserated populations from corruption at every level. Egypt is a case in point, with a tiny elite enjoying all the good things of life, while the desperately poor majority transfers all its frustration onto the scapegoat, Israel.

All the walls around Palestine are morally equivalent, and the Palestinians have no friends on the other side of any of them.

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