Parihaka

A butter cookie embargo has been placed on Hamas by the EU, and good thing too

Bluesman

As long as the 'leakage' of baked goods through the sanctions regime isn't too bad or doesn't erode over time...this is dire news for HAMAS, indeed.

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troung

I don't think this will work... cookies from France, Russia and China will enter through Egypt into Gaza... only the Palestinian people will suffer... we are punishing the people not the leadership...

Bluesman

But with a reasonably-fair electoral process, the Pallies would be able to hold the leaders accountable. Only in totalitarian regimes do the dictators become stronger realative to their own poor people.

I say that with tough enforcement, this may make HAMAS feel the pain.

NOT ANOTHER BUTTER COOKIE FOR THE WEST BANK!

troung

Blues;

It would not be their leaders commiting this crime against humanity...

This could radicialize the Pali population. They will suffer from the hardships. Their leaders and elite could get them smuggled in and a black market would rise up with possibly 40-50 dollars per tin but the average Pali would not be able to afford it.

We have seen how Saddam got fat on butter cookies in the 1990s.

They will know this blockade was aimed at making them suffer. We are punishing them for their vote which is far to exterme an action to do to fellow humans. You will be able to see it in the childerns eyes that longing look for even a crumb.

I for one cannot support this action it is far to harsh. Nobody should be denied a butter cookie, it is in the UN charter for gods sake.

We must not sink lower then the terrorists... think about the childern...

Bluesman

Wow...good points, man.

I better eat a cookie, and think this through some more...

Tronic

these embargoes are completely absurd... The Pallies finally got a democratical system, they should be awarded for that not punished... just because the party that the US doesn't like won doesn't make Palestine any less of a democratic state... You can't force someone to do something... if the Palestinians don't want to recognize Israel then so be it, it is because they have a beef with Israel, so why punish them???

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highsea

Well, why reward them?

I agree that they democratically elected their leadership. And now it's up to their leaders to provide for the people. If those leaders choose to be enemies of the west, that's something the Palestinians have to take into consideration when electing them.

Cutting off aid to terrorists is the prerogative of any country or group who is providing that aid in the first place. This is a one-way flow of money- we are not obligated to provide for them, we do it out of humanitarian concerns. If they choose terrorists to lead them, so be it. They will just have to figure out some other way to get their bread and circuses.

Most of us in the US have not forgotten the images of Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11.

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Anon

It's an OUTRAGE that the EU sold lethally addictive Butter Cookies to HAMAS to begin with. Every Palestinian that blows himself up with a Butter cookie belt is just more dough on the hands of the EU as far as i'm concerned.

Yet another reason to hate the Euros.

Anon

FUKKIN' A RIGHT.

No Butter Cookies for them.

troung

Blocking butter cookies is pretty fukking serious... far from completely absurd...

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ZFBoxcar

We have no way of knowing that butter cookies sent to them won't be used for terrorism, and even if they aren't used for illicit purposes, the butter cookie aid would free up other pastry resources to be used in attacks on civillians.