Gaza's 1.5 million people are getting 350 calves today -- the first Israeli delivery in nine months
It apparently takes American pressure to get the Israeli military to allow 350 cows into Gaza today -- the first in nine months. This, it should be noted, is for 1.5 million human beings.However, the Israeli military's "Coordinator of (Israeli) Government Activities in the Territories" (COGAT) has reportedly determined -- after a supposedly-careful and somehow-scientific analysis redolent of other notoriously disastrous historical precedents involving social engineering experiments on a captive population -- that 300 cows per week are the minimum needed in Gaza in order to avoid malnutrition, and a "humanitarian crisis" (which U.S. President Barack Obama said in Germany in early June already exists).
The Israeli Defense Ministry was put in charge of administering the drip-feed sanctions on the population of Gaza following the Israeli Government's decision on 19 September 2007 to label Gaza an "enemy entity" or "hostile territory". In response to vigorous petitions, appeals, and protests by Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations, the Israeli military promised the Israeli Supreme Court it would not allow a "humanitarian crisis" to develop in the Gaza Strip.
