2-11-2018 With Gaza in Financial Crisis, Fears That ‘an Explosion’s Coming” -DAVID M. HALBFINGER New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-palestinian-authority-abbas.html

 

…A debate raged in Israel this past week, which sees the possibility of war both to its north and south, between military leaders warning about the looming crisis in Gaza and politicians questioning just how much and how soon the situation there would threaten national security.  Such a conflicted view has characterized Israeli policy ever since the blockade was imposed, analysts say, as the country sought to protect itself by cordoning off the strip.

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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