The breakdown of an entire society is happening in front of us, but there is
little international response beyond UN warnings which are ignored. . . .  How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children – more than 50 per cent of the population – benefit anyone?

Read Roy's detailed article, which is to be published Jan. 1, 2009, at the London Review of Books or at Information Clearinghouse. For Background information, please read Stephen Lendman's article, published by the Centre for Research on Globalization.