Careful Screening Of Goods Is Not Collective Punishment: Here’s Why

UNRWA collective punishment lieOnce again Ban Ki-moon is back in town and he lost no time in slandering my people and nation.

Here’s the latest lie:

UN chief Ban Ki-moon described on Tuesday Israel’s Gaza blockade as “collective punishment” which he said was fuelling the flames of violence: “This situation cannot continue. It fuels anger and despair and it increases the danger of an escalation of hostilities,” he said during his fourth and final visit to Gaza as UN Secretary-General.

Israel has a blockade in place which means Israel meticulously checks the vast amount of goods that STILL FLOW into Gaza every day through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

The intent of the blockade is to stop weapons or terrorists getting into Gaza.

This is not a theoretical threat. Not one day passes when terrorists in Gaza do not dream of attacking Israeli civilians. They never, ever stop. It is their #RelentlessJihad. The only things preventing attacks on us are our overwhelming strength in defence and their inability to source all the weapons they would like.

If they got their hands on every weapon they desired, does anyone doubt they would be killing as many Jews as possible?

The only way our blockade would be “collective punishment” is if punishment was the intent of the blockade. It is not. Security, security for my family and all the civilians in Israel is the intent. Only. It is undeniable that all Gaza’s residents suffer somewhat (the elite Hamas captains far less of course) but that is not our intent.

I wrote the same when considering casualties that come about when Israel has to defend itself, including defensive invasions to prevent civilian bound rocket fire: Intentions And Goals Are Everything. This is exactly the same.

It is only the kind of extraordinary moral equivalence that can’t tell the difference between Hamas monsters and peace seeking Jews that leads to statements like this. And it is equally wrong how this desperately ineffective “leader” of the UN is not challenged robustly on this.

3 thoughts on “Careful Screening Of Goods Is Not Collective Punishment: Here’s Why”

  1. According to the UN – terrorism is collective punishment. So the Islamofascists are committing collective punishment on Israel on a daily basis yet once again we are blamed for not allowing it.

    The hypocrisy of UN Secretary General Moon is obvious to everybody with the slightest intelligence

  2. israel is in a state of war with hamas…hamas are the representatives of the gazans, until such time as the gazans kick their butts out….therefore, there is no collective punishment

    the end

  3. Do please enlighten us, Mr Ban, what do you propose instead? What should be the way of stopping the collective punishment? Let’s forego the security at the UN in New York, just for 2 hours? How comfortable will you feel?

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