the google ad here is from aipac.org. thought you might want to know

I'm curious what Israel's official explanation/rationale is for prohibiting items like Chocolate to private citizen? Has anyone even asked that question? Supposedly, at least all I hear, is that Isreal claims that is has a right to defend itself, on so it invokes the rationale of security for arguing the necessity of this blockage. But, how is that related to items such as candy and chocloate, jam and ginger? I read that Pizza is on the list of items banned. Rationale anyone?

Snow: Kasama doesn't have any control over which ads Google displays on the site, just whether or not they're displayed at all.

the logic of colonialism, banning items that provide for self sufficiency.

But many of those items go beyond creating dependence for livelihood. They seem also aimed to harass, i.e. no candy, chocolate, pizza. Why? Because you like those things and so we will harass you by not letting you have them. Its a level of psychology that goes beyond the material calculus of economic colonialism and oppression, but a very twisted kind of petty kind of insults added to injury, no?

Thinking about this, denying people diapers, tampons, dish detergent, toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, and detergent is fascinatingly manipulative. Does the Israeli government feels like it will help the case they are attempting to sell to the world that the Palestinians are akin to animals if they make every possible effort to force the Palestinians to live without basic dignity? I cannot imagine the rage Gazans must have felt at being denied the right to tampons, toilet paper, and diapers for their children. It's almost as though Israel is deliberately trying to create hatred and terrorism.
Is it the case that Israel is deliberately provoking the Gazans into attacks so that they can be pointed to as the "terrorists" who deserve all the the punishment the murderous IDF can unleash?