NY Times: Obama Administration Considers Israel's Gaza Blockade 'Untenable'

New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Say
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: June 2, 2010



WASHINGTON — The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach to ensure Israel’s security while allowing more supplies into the impoverished Palestinian area, senior American officials said Wednesday.

The officials say that Israel’s deadly attack on a flotilla trying to break the siege and the resulting international condemnation create a new opportunity to push for increased engagement with the Palestinian Authority and a less harsh policy toward Gaza.

“There is no question that we need a new approach to Gaza,” said one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the policy shift is still in the early stages. He was reflecting a broadly held view in the upper reaches of the administration.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/middleeast/03policy.html?ref=global-home

Enough is enough.

that has sworn destruction to them and refuses to even accept their right to exist?

How do you plan to ensure that no weapons are allowed to come in to be a threat to Israel's people? Why would Israel not want to break Hamas?

This whole deal is a set up to try and pressure Israel to not protect herself, they were trying to break the blockade, not just a mercy mission.

How do you think they should go forward?

What is the path to peace for them, the grave, to accept being scattered again, just chill a while, renounce the Jewish state, suck up any attacks and pray Hamas and the PA have a change of heart?

Really, what hasn't been tried, short of genocide. You ask great questions, but answers seem to be left wanting. Is there a path to peace? How would one recognize it? How would a Palastinian in Gaza recognize it?

You wont get any answers worth a damn here. Too busy calling Israel the biggest threat to humanity at the moment.

sort itself out.

The U.S. taxpayer should not be on the hook for this.

Obama admin needs to do more. This atrocity was horrendous and the people of Gaza are in dire need.

her own nuclear weapons and all the advanced military they have, is HELPLESS if Hamas has a few hand grenades and rockets.

How about:

a five mile DMZ between the territories, so no one gets killed by a stray rocket fired ?

customs and inspections of people passing from one nation to the other ?

adequate food, clothing, medical services and shelter, schools, and public water/sewer resources for the people in Gaza?

Poor poor Israel ?

There is no equivalency between Israel and the Palestinians.
Clearly the Israel is a superpower in comparison

Five... four... three... two...

happened the other day.

I don't think EITHER side is angelic, far from it. But killing people who are not even bad guys, just to make a point? Not at all cool, and not at all going to win the government of Israel and fans.

Their credibility with the rest of the world is on the line now- and they'll have to respond or else risk being categorized in the same vein as the Bush administration.