Israel Resembles a Failed State


by Ali Abunimah
Aljazeera
2009-12-28


One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there, time might as well have stood still. Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones — more than 1,400 persons, almost 400 of them children — there has been little healing and virtually no reconstruction.

According to international aid agencies, only 41 trucks of building supplies have been allowed into Gaza during the year.

Promises of billions made at a donors’ conference in Egypt last March attended by luminaries of the so-called “international communityâ€