On his radio program in the late 1990s, the late Harry Browne, erstwhile libertarian candidate for president, regularly made the point that the Constitution squarely applies to the government itself, and not to whomever might be on the receiving end of the government's actions.
The blockade is a form of collective punishment and is thus unambiguously illegal according to Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is party and which is not overturned by the Palmer Report.
Israel has an obligation to lift the blockade and to treat the Palestinians according to the "What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man..." teaching of Hillel.
The opposite is true. The 9/11 attacks were a direct response to the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by U.S. sanctions on Iraq during the 1991-2001 period. Iraq had everything to do with 9/11, just not in the sense that Dick Cheney hoped for.
"...these rights belong to 'all men'.”
On his radio program in the late 1990s, the late Harry Browne, erstwhile libertarian candidate for president, regularly made the point that the Constitution squarely applies to the government itself, and not to whomever might be on the receiving end of the government's actions.
The blockade is a form of collective punishment and is thus unambiguously illegal according to Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is party and which is not overturned by the Palmer Report.
Israel has an obligation to lift the blockade and to treat the Palestinians according to the "What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man..." teaching of Hillel.
"Iraq was not related to 9/11."
The opposite is true. The 9/11 attacks were a direct response to the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by U.S. sanctions on Iraq during the 1991-2001 period. Iraq had everything to do with 9/11, just not in the sense that Dick Cheney hoped for.