What would that accomplish?

An increase in the (local) money supply without an increase in production simply results in price inflation.

Find me a *secular* Gaza based charity which accepts BTC ... and I'll donate.
I'll be waiting a while I guess.

I'm guessing most are Islamist, and on various 'terrorism' lists.
Not that some politician's/civil service's 'terrorism' list should really be a disincentive to BTC-wielding free thinkers - but I'll save my 'historyless' bitcoins for things that are more clearly not going to add to turmoil.

Is there anyone still living in Gaza who is not involved in wanting to bring down Israel and wishes death to America? I figured since that place is so awful, anyone with any brains has long since gtfo out of there?

Congratulations, your ignorance is spectacular.  

I see the point about more money with not more production, but I also believe that services and goods will go to where money is...

No, what they need to do is stop making war and become peaceful. Israel doesn't become aggressive unless provoked. Almost anyone who's ever visited the region is amazed by the restraint of the IDF...

Lets try it from another direction... say that Mexicans were shooting ordinance over the border and trying to hit El Paso, Texas. Exactly how long do you think it would take the US to invade? I promise you that it would either be carpet bombing or an immediate ground war, starting just after the second launch.

Gaza has constantly been the staging ground for attempts to kill citizens of Isreal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2012


Imagine any other Nation that would suffer more than 1500 launches and still allow the place they came from to exist.

I love the potential of Bitcoin to circumnavigate governments' restrictions on what you can and can't do with your money.  However, right now in instances such as the Palestinian situation I'm far from convinced it's a good idea.

I'm not telling anybody not to do it but I think the following considerations should be taken very seriously:

i) The history of militant/terrorist/liberation movements tells us corruption is likely to be the modus operandi in such circumstances.  I can't comment about the particular Gaza situation but tools such as protection rackets and the commandeering of private property and assets are the kind of things I would expect to see.  There is more than a small chance that any Bitcoin contributed would end in the hands of those who would use it for arms etc. If that's  your intention that's one thing.  But unless you're really confident in the person/organisation to which you're contributing (i.e. have verified their integrity by trusted third parties) I'd be very wary of the likelihood of your contribution not serving the well-meaning purpose you'd intended.

ii) Israel and its powerful allies, not least the US, aren't particularly fond of people attempting to circumnavigate the decisions they have made - such as the embago - which they believe to be in the best interest of their people.  To do this is I believe painting a massive target on Bitcoin WAAAY too early.  Bitcoin may well be much more distributed, used and secure than it was this time last year but on the big scale of things it's tiny and still in my opinion vulnerable to having much of its life blood squished out of it should the powers that be decide it's not in their interest to let the experiment continue.  

Whether and when an attempt is made to criminalise Bitcoin or to put such obstacles in place to make widespread use very unlikely one thing that will count for a lot is how it is viewed in the public eye.  The WordPress thing helps enormously as would things like seeing its use in bringing communities out of poverty by facilitating trading (see my charity proposal thread).  A lot of this is just going to keep happening with time with Bitcoin getting more resilient to a large attack the whole while.

But for now my preference, despite the plight of those currently suffering in situations such as Gaza, is that we each of us hold back from using Bitcoin for such controversial uses unless we absolutely feel it would be wrong to withhold our assistance and we have a realistic idea of its chances of getting to its intended beneficiaries.