Lifting this blockade is a key demand of Hamas.
"We cannot afford this blockade," said Michael Rogowski, president of the Federal Association of German Industry.
We have a blockade, and we are going to enforce this blockade".
"The fact that this blockade [of Gaza] has not been lifted is a tragedy," said Erdogan, the self-appointed hammer of the Israelis.
But we hope that this blockade may just be the "human tipping point" that stops all the new drilling and new fossil fuel infrastructure now.
On Thursday, Harry Reid, the majority leader, challenged this blockade by scheduling a vote on Judge Bacharach for Monday.
"If this blockade blocks the port up then it's going to strangle the port and we are going to see implications back on British soil as well as French".
Fidel stood up and strengthened his country during the harshest American blockade, when there was colossal pressure on him, and he still took his country out of this blockade to a path of independent development.
He spoke about "the continuing and growing pernicious and negative consequences of this blockade," saying it was "not just the absence of reconstruction and development" after the war, "but also a situation of development going backwards".
"If WikiLeaks does not find a way to remove this blockade we will simply not be able to continue by the turn of the new year," Mr. Assange said.
Om Malik sees things differently and thinks Photobucket practically asked for this blockade (although see his more recent take).
