DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO

The United States has told Israel that it should reconsider its economic blockade of Gaza.

Israel decided to put an economic blockade on Gaza after violent incidents including Gaza shooting rocket powered explosives into Israel, killing Israeli citizens.

If a small neighbor county had even THREATENED to shoot rockets into to US, we would blockade them. WAIT, we did that.

IN FACT, even after they removed the rockets, we continued the economic blockade for the next FORTY EIGHT YEARS. But, Israel should be reasonable.

Frankly, I think that embargos and blockades may be counter productive. Recent history has shown us that trade can cause a country to change, while blockades can cause a county to blame others for why they cannot change.

Heres an idea. Let's tell Israel that we will stop our economic blockade of Cuba, if they will stop their economic blockade of Gaza.