Friday, February 04, 2022
Elder of Ziyon
It quotes Ibrahim Ghabin, director of the Agricultural Association in Beit Lahia, Gaza, who says that there will be an increase of exports of strawberries to the West Bank.
In the middle of the article comes this sentence:
Ghabin stated that the Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza contacted Agriculture in Ramallah several times in order to export strawberries abroad, but to no avail.
All Gaza exports need to go through Israel, but Israel isn't stopping these exports. The Palestinian Authority is.
Gaza farmers are held hostage by the PA, which hates Hamas and therefore collectively punishes Gazans with arbitrary decisions like this. It happens all the time.
This is one of the many stories of how Palestinians are suffering at the hands of their own leaders that "human rights organizations" and news media actively refuse to cover. Because they have a narrative of Jewish oppression of Palestinians, and especially Gazans, and any story that doesn't follow that formula is simply not reported.
Ironically, if the media and NGOs would simply write letters to the PA or call them up asking them why they are blocking exports from Gaza, that would shame the PA into changing its policies and help Gaza farmers and Gaza's economy.
Which means that the hate and bias that the NGOs and media have against Israel ends up hurting Palestinians - the very people they claim they are trying to protect.
