Give this logic from Greens senator Lee Rhiannon a rocket

 

COULD Greens senator Lee explain those hundreds of rockets being fired at Israel from Gaza?

You see, Rhiannon even this week was still claiming Gaza was "the world's biggest outdoor prison and ... has been under blockade for quite some time".  Blockaded by Israel, that is, which Rhiannon wants to boycott "as a way to promoting Palestinian human rights". 

On the blockade, senator: from where came the almost 2000 rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory into Israel since January, including some big enough to hit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv? The answer? Many from Iran. Some blockade, which allows such weaponry to be smuggled in.

Perhaps that blockade isn't as strict as you claim, and certainly not along Gaza's border with Egypt, now controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Next question: if Gaza is the "world's biggest outdoor prison" strangled by a blockade so severe that Palestinians are left, as activists such as Professor Juan Cole claim, short of food and medicine, why would Hamas smuggle in rockets instead? 

Strange priorities, especially when rockets are not weapons of self-defence but of offence. Of terror. Which is the stock in trade of Hamas, pledged to Israel's destruction. 

Next question about that blockade, senator: can you now understand why Israel, while allowing in food, medicine and other goods, does try to stop imports to Gaza of weapons and material to build them? If it did not, would there be more rockets or fewer? More dying or less? 

Last question: if Hamas put as much effort into developing Gaza as it does into smuggling rockets, wouldn't its people be safer, richer and more trusted by its neighbours? More likely to make peace?

Look at those rockets, senator, and ask yourself if you've become a dupe of terrorists, rather than a voice for human rights.