Hamas terrorists (File photo)
A report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development predicts that Israel's blockade to prevent weapons entering Gaza and the creation of an Iranian arms depot on the Mediterranean, will render Gaza "unlivable" in five years. The report, "Developments in the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory," does not mention Hamas - even once. Hamas's misappropriation of millions of dollars of donor funds and equipment to purchase weapons and construct terror tunnels to kill Israelis - instead of development - is also never mentioned. The report also dismisses out-of-hand the well-documented accounts of Palestinian mismanagement and corruption. Israel is wholly to blame for the economic shortcomings in the West Bank and Gaza, not mere "inadequacy of Palestinian National Authority policies or poor donor coordination."