Dos,

Please excuse me if I have it wrong but my impression is that the only time you and others are concerned about the welfare of the children of Gaza is when you can somehow blame their situation on the Israelis. I suppose I wouldn't have this impression if every now and then you might acknowledge that perhaps the Hamas share some small part of the responsibility for the welfare of their own children. I might be even more disabused of my impression if their unwillingness to allow UNICEF to sign a contract with an Israeli company to build a desalinization plant that would supply clean water to the thirsty children of Gaza, met with a smidgen of disapproval on your part rather than with more whitewashing, excuses and pathetic justifications. 

Habesor

More information on the poverty in Gaza

Life of Luxury in “World’s Largest Concentration Camp”
June 17, 2012 12:54 by Pesach Benson

Monaco or Gaza? The Economist notes this slice of life from “the world’s largest concentration camp.”

In the meantime, Hamas leaders seem increasingly content to enjoy the fruits of splendid isolation. The parliamentary car park, full of rickety bangers when Hamas first took office, now gleams with flash new models hauled through the tunnels under the Egyptian border. Two Hummer H3s and a golden Porsche were recently spotted cruising the streets. Ministers and members of parliament seem unbothered by the lack of accountability as well as reports of money-laundering. “We’re hunted and targeted,” explains a self-pitying MP on Hamas’s parliamentary ethics committee, who recently spent $28,000 on a new car with the help of a $12,000 loan from the movement.

I wish more hunted Hamas members were dumb enough to drive around Gaza in shiny gold Porsches.

honestreporting.com/life-of-luxury-in-wo...

Where Hamas decides to spend its money is quite telling. They are obviously not spending their money in order to help the people of Hamasistan.

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' Dos, are you also one of those "humanitarians" who judge Middle Eastern events only in terms of how they can be used to bash Israel?  It seems that your concern for the state of the Gaza sewage system only relates to how you can use it to blame Israel. You seem to show no concern for the Palestinian children's lack of drinking water or the Hamas decision to perpetuate that lack.'

Habesor you are wrong. You have this 'bash Israel' in your mind and everything is colored by this. You did not deny that Israel destroyed sewage system and a lot more but went ot blame Hamas etc..

Your argument is just because Palestinians deny Israeli company to built desalination plant they don't love their children.

 You would not trust your enemy neither would I, why should they. It might all change in 50ys time but for now it is reality.

Dos,

You spend much time and effort bashing Israel. You do not have one word of criticism for the Palestinians. The Hamas officials are blocking the construction of a desalinization plant because an Israeli company might make some profit. So, perhaps you could criticize this Hamas position which adversely effects the wellbeing of Gaza's stunted children; rather than seeking to "explain" why the Hamas position is justified.

Habesor 

You keep referring to Israel as Gaza's 'enemy', Dos.  The Israelis do not feel that way about the Gazan people - only about HAMAS, and only because HAMAS declares in its Charter (its declaration of purposes, etc) that HAMAS exists to destroy Israel, which it doesn't even name or call a 'state' but refers to 'the Zionist entity'.

So it is HAMAS which defines itself as 'enemy of Israel' for(part of) it's raison d'etre.

What you seem unable to recognize, Dos, is that neither the Israeli people nor the government has defined themselves as 'enemy of Gaza'.  So it is not 'reciprocal' - which some have claimed. 

And as long as someone makes excuses for rockets coming out of Gaza aimed at the children of Sderot and other Negev towns, I don't see where they are being at all 'pacifist' or realistic.  

Incidentally, refusing to let the people who can build Gaza the desalination plant best, fastest AND cheapest is exactly 'not loving their children':  the result is condemning the children to shortages of potable water for even longer.   And why?  Simply to refuse to deal with Israel.

DUH - If they won't even let the Israelis build the infrastructure their children NEED NOW - on someone else's dime! - what does that say about the Gazan 'GOVERNMENT' having any desire for peace with Israel????

I believe the phrase 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face' was invented for just such occasions......