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The primary use of tunnels was economic and their presence long known. Space prevents a review of
the causes of the 2014 war, which was supported by many Israeli newspapers but opposed by Haaretz,
which emphasized the repetitive nature of the attacks on Gaza and of the pattern of accusations (inherited
from the previous treatment of Yasir Arafat). An example from Gideon Levy may be noted:
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.607306 Israel responds each time to criticisms that it has
massively violated the laws of war, blaming Hamas for provocations and for sacrificing its own people.
Whatever options Hamas may think it has, this cycle would seem to reinforce hatred and, as noted by much
international press, spread that hatred especially among 1.3 billion Muslims. The US typically calls for
“restraint” while re-supplying Israel; since these are wars of choice, presumably the US is given some
advance notice of when they will begin.
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“The Gaza Cheat Sheet: Real Data on the Gaza Closure. www.gisha.org
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Sarah Helm, “ISIS in Gaza.” NY Review of Books, January 14, 2016
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An UNCTAD report on assistance to the Palestinian people: ‘Developments in the economy of the
Occupied Palestinian Territory’, 6 July 2015, concluded, “The devastation in Gaza is not only the result of
the latest military operation but rooted in a prolonged occupation and blockade and the recurrent
destruction of infrastructure. The Palestinian people need to secure their human right to development under
international law far more than they need donor aid... Donor aid is important for extending a lifeline to the
beleaguered people of Gaza, [but] should not be viewed as a substitute for ending the blockade and calling
on Israel to fulfill its obligations under international law.” It predicted: “If the current blockade and
insufficient levels of donor support persist, even with a reversion to the status quo that prevailed before the
latest military operation, Gaza will become economically unviable...” p.14-15
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Sara Roy 1995. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development. Wash. DC. Institute for
Palestine Studies
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Source: B’Tselem. Names here of the incursions are those selected by Government of Israel.
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Gaza Assault: information from the Institute for Middle-East Understanding (imeu.org) via IPMN web
page
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Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010, by Breaking
the Silence.
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Here is a popular account of promoting and partly inventing an exclusively Jewish history on the
ground: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/letty-cottin-pogrebin/eyewitness-report-on-the_b_515269.html A
detailed study of settler takeover strategies in one area, Silwan, is provided here:
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.683416 An effort to describe the process and objections
to its characterization:
http://www.worldlibrary.org/article/WHEBN0022033448/Judaization%20of%20Jerusalem A larger
framework of “ethnocracy” as a framework for Israel’s political practice: http://www.ipkbonn.de/downloads/ethnocracy-yiftachel.pdf An Emirates’ summary of the situation:
http://www.ecssr.ac.ae/ECSSR/print/ft.jsp?lang=en&ftId=/FeatureTopic/Ibrahim_Abdel_Karim/FeatureTo
pic_1517.xml
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Estimates of Israel’s military spending vary widely, from 5.3 percent of GDP (Forbes) to around 20
percent (Haaretz) when labor costs are fully accounted.
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The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid gives the
legal definitions of “apartheid”. These were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1973 and
the subsequent Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as objective criteria for assessing the
applicability of the term, without reference to any national context.
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Douglass North, John Wallis, Steven Webb and Barry Weingast, ed. 2013. In the Shadow of Violence:
Politics, Economics and the Problems of Development. NY: Cambridge U. Press.
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Recent regulations to US Customs and Border Protection reiterated the requirement for accurately
labeling the place or origin.
http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=21420&page=1&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=abi&sortb
y=&sby#