Saturday, June 23, 2007

End the Hamas boycott now!

End the Hamas boycott now!

22.06. 2007
http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000397.html
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Many politicians, analysts and op-ed contributors in Europe are insisting that the Hamas boycott must be ended now. Indeed, they blame the boycott for the terrible Hamas butchery that has taken place in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people. The UK UNISON trade union confederation has called for ending the boycott, though they want to start one of their own. Former UN Middle East Special Coordinator Alvaro De Soto scored the Hamas boycott as the source of all the problems in Gaza even before the Hamas coup.

We have to agree that the Hamas boycott is non-productive, and even evil. Boycotts are wrong. How can anyone boycott a legitimately elected democratic government? Therefore we call on the EU and the United States and the UN to pressure the Hamas to end its boycott of Israel, end its campaign to destroy a member state of the UN, and enter into immediate negotiations for a peace treaty. ..