""But, alternatively, could it not reduce a big reason (excuse) that Israel has used to justify isolation-agression against Gaza? That could increase international pressure on Israel to open up it's borders to allow access for provisions for the citizens?""

What international pressure Ed? The only pressure applied to Israel, by the UN, is routinely vetoed by the United States of America, with somewhat disgusting support from the successive governments of my own country.

Anything that Israel does, no matter how vile, is overlooked by those with guilt feelings about the treatment of Jews in WW2, despite the fact that the miscreants are not the ordinary Jewish citizens of Israel, but rather the vicious Zionist fanatics who control Israel's government and seem to feel justified in getting their own back for that treatment by bashing their neighbours, who had nothing to do with it.

Don T.