'Just World News' with Helena Cobban: Those elusive permits for Gaza

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« Arafat, and other encounters in Palestine/Israel \| JWN front page \| Sharon's wall system in pictures » Those elusive permits for Gaza Posted by Helena Cobban February 20, 2004 3:32 PM EST \| Link Filed in Palestinian issues Since early January, the Israeli authorities have been handing a new piece of paper to foreigners entering their country (and also, to foreigners entering the occupied West Bank across the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge. This is what it looks like. How lovely that they promise that they will make "the utmost effort" to authorize requests to enter Gaza "within 5 working days". Too bad that these "utmost efforts" brought no results in my recent case, eh? (See this recent post on my efforts to get into Gaza last week.) « Arafat, and other encounters in Palestine/Israel \| JWN front page \| Sharon's wall system in pictures » Comments	Recent Posts on JWN • Realism, war, and pacifism (3) • Palin's performance: Insulting and very scary (28) • September 11 and the war in Afghanistan (6) • US's global dominance 'Reduced': It's nearly official! (1) • JWN redesign update #1 (2) • Oliver North??? (5) • J. Diehl criticizing Saakashvili (3) • Peres warns against attacking Iran (0) • Georgia-Hizbullah: Dept. of Delicious Ironies (2) • US probing Russian Red Lines in Georgia (0) • Women discuss Sarah Palin (26) • New vistas-- personal, and blog-related (12) • The longterm status of Georgia: Challenges ahead (20) • Text of the draft Iraq-US SOFA (10) • HRW revising its Russian cluster bomb accusations (11) • International tensions and the US election (9) • Iraq: Another Quaker in the 'Red Zone' (3) • HRW's flawed 'Research' on Georgian cluster bombs (20) • More on China in Iraq (12) • Post on China in US occupied zones-- at Japan Focus (0) • Palin and the 3 a.m. phone call (39) • China and Iraq (4) • Egyptian delegation to break Gaza siege (2) • Waiting for Gustav (5) • Italy gives Libya $$ compensation for colonial rule (17) • China buys in to Iraqi, Afghan end-games (15) • "Resolution": Palin's goal in Iraq (8) • China's way of 'Emerging' (6) • A note on US politics (6) • Conway does a Dannatt (sort of) (7) • China gets Iraq oil deal (6) • Rest-of-world saving US from recession? (5) • Russia and the world (12) • Milanovic: From Global Trade to Global War (5) • The return of geography (3) • Still no US-Iraq security agreement (yawn) (2) • Iraq-US: More disagreement than 'Agreement' (23) • NATO's supply lines in Afghanistan (27) • My CSM piece on the big-picture implications of Georgia (21) • Mahbubani on western hypocrisy, etc. (5) • Condi in Baghdad: YES on a timetable (aspirational) (8) • More on NATO, etc. (14) • NATO's crisis (8) • And another thing about Finland (23) • Where in the world is... Ban Ki-Moon? (22) • Russian military assessment: New arms race? (26) • And now for a little audio (0) • Yglesias nails McCain (4) • Sarkozy's ceasefire, Georgia's future (22) • Georgia crisis and the shifting global balance (0)

Those elusive permits for Gaza

Posted by Helena Cobban
February 20, 2004 3:32 PM EST | Link
Filed in Palestinian issues

Since early January, the Israeli authorities have been handing a new piece of paper to foreigners entering their country (and also, to foreigners entering the occupied West Bank across the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge. This is what it looks like.

How lovely that they promise that they will make "the utmost effort" to authorize requests to enter Gaza "within 5 working days". Too bad that these "utmost efforts" brought no results in my recent case, eh? (See this recent post on my efforts to get into Gaza last week.)

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