Dear Editor,
According to The Washington Post "Israel might have avoided this fight...by relaxing the economic blockade" [Israel Strikes Dec. 28, 2008]. But the facts don't support this. Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians in August of 2005. Almost immediately, the Palestinians turned the Gaza Strip into a launching pad for rockets and mortars firing them into Israel, cease-fire or no cease-fire, incessantly. The embargo began as a non-violent means to curtail the rocket fire. Therefore, unless The Washington Post has some evidence toward the contrary, they owe their readers a retraction of the atrocious claim that relaxing the embargo would have had any positive impact at all.
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