Gaza Suffers And No One To Blame But Hamas

60 have been wounded as Egyptians open fire on Gazan protesters.

About 60 people were hurt, including one woman who was hit by gunfire, as Egyptian border guards fired in the air and used clubs and water cannons to drive back hundreds of Palestinian women who surged across the border from Gaza Tuesday.

The protesting Palestinians were demanding that Egypt back their demands for the border to be opened for shipments of food and essential provisions, in short supply due to Israel's closure of its borders with the Strip.

Meanwhile, with Kassam rockets continuing to hit the western Negev, and despite the easing of the blockade on Gaza, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that peace talks with Israel must continue, regardless of the escalating confrontation between Israel and Hamas.

Israel will inevitably be blamed for this, despite the fact that this is a crisis wholly of Hamas' own doing.

Hamas has had all the food and fuel it needs, and yet they decided to forment a crisis by shutting down a power plant in Gaza. Gaza receives most of its power from Israel.

Abbas continues to demand negotiations with Israel, just days after claiming that he would stop talks over Israel's attack that killed a bunch of Hamas thugs. He can barely keep his story straight. Then again, the media has a hard time trying to keep it straight either.

Israel is engaged in self defense and actively provides most of Gaza's power and energy requirements despite the fact that the Palestinians there seek Israel's destruction. No other nation would willingly place itself in that kind of peril. Israel does, and leftists and Palestinian sympathizers around the world slam Israel for even suggesting that the Palestinians be left to figure out how to power their own territory (which they have the capability to do so if only they put as much energy into building an infrastructure as they do to building kassams, mortars, and suicide bombers).

The human rights groups and Palestinian sympathizers continue to claim that Israel is committing crimes - all the while ignoring the very real kassam rocket attacks and mortar attacks against Israel. They've got their blinders on.

Even dovish Shimon Peres is realizing that the UN is operating with blinders on. He's noting that the UN should spend more time focusing on the Palestinian rocket attacks.

As always, check into Carl in Jerusalem and Aussie Dave at Israellycool for the latest.

UPDATE:
As the UN is set to take up yet another anti-Israel resolution in the Security Council (the US says it will veto), 17 kassams fell on Israel today. Where's the resolution condemning the same Palestinian terrorists who manufactured this whole energy "crisis"? They are, after all, one in the same.