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Palestine Chronicle
February 2, 2018
When considering Gaza's dire humanitarian conditions, it is impossible not to remember what Israeli government adviser Dov Weisglass said in 2006 when the Israeli siege started: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” How much of that callous, initial calculationÃâà...
LobeLog
December 28, 2017
Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw all Israeli forces and settlements from the Gaza Strip, and to remove four small settlements from the West Bank, demonstrated, as intended, how politically difficult evacuating settlements was for Israeli leaders—pouring, as Sharon's aide Dov Weisglass put it, formaldehydeÃâà...
Mondoweiss
November 16, 2017
Salwa Salem-Copty hopes to someday return to live in her family's village in the north of Israel, but at 70 years old, she thinks it is unlikely. Instead she has one request — she would like to be allowed to visit the grave of her father, who was killed when a bus full of workers traveling to Haifa was attacked inÃâà...
Middle East Eye
October 14, 2017
Israel also has reservations about the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signed this past Thursday (12 October) in Cairo. A bulletin from the Prime ... That was Sharon's working assumption; it was in that context that the split between the West Bank and Gaza was so essential to him. Ehud Olmert as primeÃâà...
Mondoweiss
May 30, 2017
Nearly seven years have passed since the ICRC noted that “The whole of Gaza's civilian population is being punished for acts for which they bear no responsibility”, that “the closure therefore constitutes a collective punishment imposed in clear violation of Israel's obligations under internationalÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada
October 24, 2012
Although Dov Weisglass was adviser to Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of the day, few observers treated his comment as more than hyperbole, a supposedly droll characterization of the blockade Israel was about to impose on the tiny enclave. Last week, however, the evidence finally emerged to prove thatÃâà...
