Yeah you guessed right, I'm talking the "freedom" flotilla here. First, Israel warned it would not allow the peace flotilla to enter Gaza. but they still continued. There were even reports of babies on board. This smacks a bit of deliberate provocation, doesn't it. The activists are actually provoking Israel. What do you have to say, as you see it? Secondly, Israel has proposed to deliver aid from freedom flotilla to Gaza. But this has been rejected. Does this mean the activists and hamas are actually more interested in scandal and exploding the suffering of the Gaza ppl ? In our point of view, there are two issues here. The first issue is the navel blockade. Which is for Israel a military necessity, Because if there was unfitted navel access to the Gaza strip, Iran and Syria would be sending in rockets, and those rockets would obviously be fired at Israel. It's true that inside Gaza they can endogenously produce dangerous rockets. But the most formidable weapons, those with the longer range, with the more powerful warheads and the greater accuracy, have to be imported. And we CANNOT allow that. Therefore we have to keep the navel blockade. As for the civilian sanctions on the Gaza strip on the crossings. Let me say we have over the last few months expended the volume of the products going in to the Gaza strip by some 20 percents. We've expended the variety of products that are going in to the Gaza strip. We've agreed to building projects, when there's an internationally third party involved. Moreover we are prepared to do more! most of us would be happy to do much more, if the palastinian govermant could exercise its autority in the gaza strip. unfortunately they have no longer authority on the Gaza strip. That's why we are unable to have any kind of business with the Palestinian government. I pray for the day when the Palestinian ppl understand that Hamas is nothing but an obsticale on the way for peace.
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