"Keith can you come up with ANY argument that the naval and land blockade of Gaza represents anything other than collective punishment in order to push the Palestinians and make them create a pressure on Hamas after it won the parliamentary elections?"

The Israelis argue that Iran for instance would try to get weapons in.
Do you have any arguments that they would not?

"Can you justify that this represents proportinate action? "
No.
If it were my son though, I might well answer yes.

"The have consitently refused to let in concrete to rebuild the schools and ospitals they razed to the ground in their last incursion.
Jim Carroll "
They say they have refused concrete to build bunkers and rocket silos.

Aid is held up when Hamas attacks the crossing points.
Why do they do that?
Has Hamas allowed in the aid carried by the flotilla yet?
Why the delay?