Fuel still illegal in Gaza

People have also become more reliant on basic food products, and have severely reduced consumption of expensive goods like fresh meat.
"Now these people, reliant on these basics of life -- flour, sugar, oil, chickpeas and salt -- are even unable to cook them," Campbell said.
Some 90 percent of Gaza's bakeries run on cooking gas, and most in the southern Gaza Strip have shut down due to the lack of fuel.

EI on the still growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza 

Debbie Almostar on DN!

DEBBIE ALMOSTAR: My last words are basically urging the American public to really develop a better understanding of the political agenda that is out there by people such as Daniel Pipes and rightwing groups who are going after prominent Muslim and Arab American leaders who are trying to make a difference in this country. It is so important to allow us to bridge the gaps and build bridges of understanding among people across this country and to, you know, continue in the healing process of developing a better country and a better world for all of humanity.

New Ed Herman article

On the other hand, the truly genuine case of ethnic cleansing, and one that has had global implications because of the Arab and Muslim resentment that it inspires, has been the steady Israeli expulsion of Palestinians from their lands in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in order to allow Jewish settlements. The phrase "ethnic cleansing" is almost never applied to this case in the West. This despite the fact that it has been openly acknowledged by Israeli leaders for many years that the aim of these settlements is to displace Palestinians with Jews, and that in the process they have killed many thousands, demolished over 18,000 Palestinian homes since the occupation began in 1967