The people of Palestine are still suffering for their election of Hamas earlier this year. The financial embargo placed on the Palestinian Authority by the US and Europe has lead to:
- over 165,000 civil servants not being paid for six months
- businesses closing
- people buying sugar and tea on credit
- hospitals running out of money, resulting in patients dying
- the economy of Palestine being taken back 13 years
- rubbish collection, sanitation and sewerage systems in other urban centres under threat
- 2.4 million Palestinians living under the poverty line
- The average monthly household income declining from 644 to 343 dollars.
So what did Condoleezza Rica have to say when she visited Israel? According to Haaretz, Rice said that:
This despite the fact that the embargo is only hurting the poor people of Palestine and is even increasing support for Hamas. Once again, the American government allows the poor to suffer and no doubt turn more and more people to radical answers to the questions posed. Have they learnt nothing from the last five years?
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