Minister Vilnai’s Time Travels

Posted on February 7, 2012
It’s odd that the home front defense minister chose to quote a resolution from which the current government has been trying to backpedal for over a year and a half. Photo: Reuters. Photoshop: Gisha

The answer of home front defense minister Matan Vilnai to a parliamentary question of MK Zahava Gal-On makes us wonder: Where was Vilnai in the last 4 years? Continue reading →

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Six more misconceptions about Gaza (the international edition)

Posted on January 26, 2012
all it takes is a few photos of a bustling market to refute a very simplistic understanding of the closure. Feras Market in Gaza City

In the last post, we attempted to delineate some of the common misconceptions or simplifications about Gaza, which, broadly speaking, are heard most often in Israel. This week, we’d like to list a few more that usually come at us from abroad. Continue reading →

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Six common misconceptions about Gaza that are so 2011

Posted on January 5, 2012
And one wishes to move to the West Bank? Rafah crossing, 3.30.2005. Photo: PHR

The civilian closure has been lifted? Israel gives Gaza money, electricity and water? Six Common Misconceptions about Gaza Continue reading →

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Christmas, take II

Posted on December 22, 2011
Santa is back. Photo: stock.xchg

COGAT didn’t bother to post a separate update notifying about its decision to change the criteria but instead chose to quietly alter the original notice posted on its website, the one that reported the “easings” in the first place Continue reading →

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Who stole Christmas?

Posted on December 19, 2011
a closer look at the goodwill gesture suggests that the Grinch – and not just Santa Claus – has been at work. Photo: stock.xchg

Whether they have been naughty or nice, at least two-thirds of Gaza’s approximately 1,500 Christians, including all those between the ages of 16-46 who are excluded from the gesture, won’t be able to celebrate the holiday with their family members Continue reading →

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Al-Haq’s Rejoinder to Gisha’s ‘Scale of Control’ Report: Israel’s Continued Responsibility as the Occupying Power in the Gaza Strip

Posted on December 18, 2011

In November 2011, the Israeli human rights organisation Gisha published the position paper ‘Scale of Control: Israel’s Continued Responsibility in the Gaza Strip.’ Readjusting its own previous assessment of the situation in the Gaza Strip after the 2005 unilateral ‘disengagement’1,  … Continue reading →

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We don’t have a problem with you, we have a problem with students

Posted on December 14, 2011
Al Azhar University

Israel’s security establishment has been preventing students from Gaza from studying in the West Bank since the year 2000, in a blanket ban. The students are not asked to undergo individual security checks; they are considered a security threat simply because they are students Continue reading →

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Three export tales

Posted on December 13, 2011
As always, shipping is key. Photo: stock.xchg

Burning furniture, dangerous potatoes and the run-away cherry tomatoes. Behind the fine print of the export from Gaza. Continue reading →

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It’s the export, stupid!

Posted on November 30, 2011
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Three days ago two truckloads of strawberries exited Gaza and passed through Israel on their way to Europe. They were the first truckloads of export allowed out of the Strip in over six months, part of a program funded by … Continue reading →

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Scale of Control: Israel’s control over the Gaza Strip

Posted on November 14, 2011

Ever since disengagement in 2005, almost every discussion about Israel’s policy toward the Gaza Strip eventually raises the question: Does Israel still control Gaza? On one side of the argument, there are those who claim that Israel no longer controls … Continue reading →

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