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Israel announced Monday it will seal the Kerem Shalom commercial border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
This means Gazans, already suffering a health emergency due to the dozen years-long siege of the refugee enclave, will be subject to even greater privations.
Israel's actions fly in the face of World opinion, and repeated rulings by the United Nations, who released a report last year saying conditions in Gaza are degrading at a rate to make the Strip "unlivable" by 2020.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's proclamation comes following four months of weekly Palestinian protest at the barbed wire and earthen berm barrier near Khan Younis, where Israel has responded with a live bullet, open fire policy killing so far more than a hundred and fifty people, (including children, medics, and journalists) and maiming thousands.
The Israeli prime minister said the Kerem Shalom closure was part of a promise to redouble his efforts to "deal with Hamas with a heavier hand."
Professor Gregory Shupak is an educator, author, and essayist. Holding a doctorate in Literary Studies, Greg teaches Media Studies at the University of Guelph in Toronto. His analyses of politics and media appear across a variety of outlets online, including: Jacobin Magazine, Electronic Intifada, In These Times, Middle East Eye, TeleSUR, and at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting among other places.
His first book, 'The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel, and the Media' is newly released by OR books, who say it, "[L]ays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the Palestine–Israel issue... [revealing] ...major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage..."
Greg Shupak in the first half.
And; as British Columbia's Site C Dam project bungles along, critics who fought against it, and who's hopes the incoming government would kill it were cruelly dashed by John Horgan's NDP, have not yet begun to give up fighting. They are legion, and their arguments against Site C cite its environmental, economic, constitutional, and geological failures.
Site C Action & Accountability for a dam site too far in the second half.
And; Victoria-based activist and CFUV Radio broadcaster at-large, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour with the Left Coast Events Bulletin of some of the good things to be gotten up to in and around our town in the coming week. But first, Greg Shupak and getting the Wrong Story on Palestine right.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/