Congressman Calls on Obama to Halt Israel's Anti-Hamas Moves

Democratic Congressman Brian Baird has called on President Barack Obama to force Israel to allow open borders for the de facto Hamas rule in Gaza. Baird, visiting in Gaza, told students there, "We ought to bring roll-on, roll-off ships and roll them right to the beach and bring the relief supplies in, in our version of the Berlin airlift."
Rep. Baird, from the State of Washington, referred to Israel's partial ban on the flow of goods and merchandise to Gaza as a "blockade." He previously has called for cutting aid to Israel unless it opens up the border crossings, which it has closed because of repeated attempts to smuggle weapons into the Gaza region.
Baird, who recently announced he will not run for re-election, also has supported the Goldstone Report that alleged Israel committed war crimes in the war against Hamas terrorists last year. Arguing against a Congressional resolution that called for rejecting the Goldstone Report, Baird noted he had visited rocket-battered Sderot but that Israel violated human rights of Arabs in Gaza.
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