{"id":5989,"date":"2010-06-17T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:05:36","slug":"israel-eases-gaza-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/17\/israel-eases-gaza-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel eases Gaza blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5990\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Gaza-strip-map-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gaza strip map\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/is.html\">Israel<\/a> announced a\u00a0<a title=\"relaxation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-gaza-blockade-20100618,0,7827616.story\" target=\"_blank\">relaxation<\/a> of the 3-year-old blockade of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/gz.html\">Gaza<\/a>, promising to ease the importation of some goods by land but not offering to lift its navel embargo.\u00a0 The move came weeks after Israeli commandos killed nine people on an aid flotilla trying to breach the blockade.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/\">International\u00a0relations<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Hezbollah: A Short History\" href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8363.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah: A Short History<\/a><\/em>&#8221; and authority on Middle East politics, says if Israel was serious about improving the living conditions in Gaza, it would stop preventing the exports of agricultural goods and allow the strip&#8217;s simple manufacturing sector to resume making and selling everyday essentials.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis latest decision is an arrogant in-your-face to the U.S. and other concerned members of the international community.\u00a0 Watch the U.S. government spokespersons\u2019 reaction.\u00a0 If they commend Israel, then you may heavily discount Obama&#8217;s commitment to Middle East peacemaking.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Agustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel announced a\u00a0relaxation of the 3-year-old blockade of Gaza, promising to ease the importation of some goods by land but not offering to lift its navel embargo.\u00a0 The move came weeks after Israeli commandos killed nine people on an aid flotilla trying to breach the blockade.\u00a0\u00a0International\u00a0relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, author of &#8220;Hezbollah: A Short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3113,2987,518,3070,3115,202,540,3071,2528,3191,3190,1759,2937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}