From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/israel-gaza-collapse-wikileaks/
By Reuters
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Israel told US officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza’s economy “on the brink of collapse” while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.
Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks, showed that Israel kept the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv briefed on its internationally criticized blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The territory, home to 1.3 million Palestinians, is run by the Islamist Hamas group, which is shunned by the West over its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence or accept existing interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deals.
“As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to (U.S. embassy economic officers) on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge,” one of the cables read.
Continue reading at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/israel-gaza-collapse-wikileaks/
Then go to http://guerrillanews.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/gaza-youth-manifesto-for-change/ and read what the kids suffering from this crime against humanity feel.
Women Born Transsexual 
January 7, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Yup, just as Egypt and Turkey did before Israel.