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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (19) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared BP restarts drillship system after 10-hour lapse 19 Jun 2010 BP estimates of Gulf oil spill range up to 100,000 bpd | Video 3:01am EDT New Jersey battles over tax on millionaires 20 Jun 2010 China's yuan rises after flexibility pledge | Video 3:05am EDT Chinese yuan under scrutiny before G20 meeting 20 Jun 2010 Miley Cyrus "no underwear" photo is fake, blogger says 15 Jun 2010 US STOCKS-S&P futures surge at open after China's yuan move 20 Jun 2010 China forex move could thwart U.S. hopes - Roubini 19 Jun 2010 Putin boasts new jet fighter better than U.S. plane 17 Jun 2010 Yuan jumps to 21-mth high as China c.bank steps aside 12:34am EDT BP estimates of Gulf oil spill range up to 100,000 bpd | Video 3:01am EDT Berkshire to acquire agency licence in India-paper 1:46am EDT German student attacks Hell's Angels with puppy 15 Jun 2010 Facebook '09 revenue neared $800 million 18 Jun 2010 Shot grizzly tied to hiker death near Yellowstone 20 Jun 2010 UPDATE 1-Garuda in talks for $1.5 bln funds for Boeing aircraft 20 Jun 2010 UBS co-head of Asia equity derivatives trading dies 12:59am EDT FOREX-Aussie, euro jump after China lets yuan rise 2:15am EDT China forex move could thwart U.S. hopes - Roubini 19 Jun 2010 China's yuan rises after flexibility pledge | Video 3:05am EDT Embattled Israel reverses rules on Gaza blockade Joseph Nasr JERUSALEM Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:55pm EDT Related News Q&A: What has changed in Israel's blockade of Gaza? Sun, Jun 20 2010 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) listens to an Air Force Major General during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem June 20, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Gali Tibbon/Pool JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said Sunday it was easing a land blockade on the Gaza Strip to allow in all goods except for arms and materials used to make them. World The softening of a policy criticized as collective punishment of Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians to weaken their hardline Islamist leaders follows an Israeli raid on a blockade-running flotilla in which nine activists died. The United States quickly welcomed the shift and said President Barack Obama would hold a delayed meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on July 6. Israel's old rules banned everything it chose not to let in. Netanyahu said Israel would "as quickly as possible" publish a list of banned goods and all items not on it would be allowed in to the Palestinian territory run by the Hamas Islamist group. "Israel seeks to keep out of Gaza weapons and material that Hamas uses to prepare and carry out terror and rocket attacks against Israel and its civilians," he said. "All other goods will be allowed into Gaza." Israel has been under pressure to ease its blockade since the May 31 raid on ships bringing aid to Gaza. Israel says the nine Turkish activists killed were waiting to attack Israeli commandos but the outcome sparked an international outcry. Israel's allies, including the United States and the European Union, said the blockade was a failing policy that had become counter-productive and difficult to defend. Welcoming the change, the White House announced the new date for the U.S. and Israeli leaders to meet. Netanyahu was supposed to see Obama at the White House on June 1 after of a trip to Canada but canceled to return home after the flotilla raid. "Implementation of the policy announced by the government of Israel today should improve life for the people of Gaza and we will continue to support that effort," the White House said. Hamas said the Israeli announcement fell short of international demands to lift the blockade completely. "Hamas rejects this decision. This is an attempt to sap international anger over the blockade on the Gaza Strip," Hamas official Ismail Radwan told Reuters by phone from Gaza. Under the new rules Israel will let in building materials for housing projects approved by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and supervised by international organizations. Hamas does not recognize the legitimacy of the PA, based in the West Bank. The projects included deal with schools, health facilities, water treatment and sanitation, the Israeli statement said. But it said it would keep the right to ban "dual-use" construction materials that it says could be used by Hamas to manufacture weapons and to rebuild its military facilities. BLAIR Netanyahu announced the plan together with international Middle East envoy Tony Blair, who had been lobbying Israel to limit its open-ended embargo to a list of specified items. Blair represents the Quartet of international powers seeking Middle East peace -- the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia. He said the best response from Hamas would be to stop attacking Israel and free Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured and held for four years. Blair said the increased flow of goods into Gaza would allow for the "expansion of economic activity" there. The United Nations says the blockade has not only deprived the poorest in Gaza of basic needs but suffocated the enclave's chances of trading. It insists building materials be allowed in. The coastal strip, where 1 million Palestinians depend on aid from the United Nations and other international relief agencies, suffered severe damage in a three-week Israeli offensive launched in December 2008. There has been practically no reconstruction since thousands of homes and factories were wrecked. Israel said it would expand operations at border crossings controlled by its army to allow more goods into Gaza. It said it would consider opening more border crossings and allow more people in and out of Gaza, if calm persisted along the border. Israel's 2008/09 winter offensive was triggered by incessant rocket fire into Israel from Gaza, which caused few casualties but struck fear into southern Israeli communities. Israel says it will maintain a sea blockade on Gaza to prevent ships ferrying longer-range rockets to Hamas from its main backer, Iran. Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, seized control of Gaza in 2007 after routing forces loyal to the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the PA. Hamas is opposed to the current indirect peace talks with Israel, mediated by the Obama administration. (Additional reporting by Douglas Hamilton in Jerusalem, Ali Sawafta in Ramallah and Matt Spetalnick in Washington, Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Richard Meares) World Comments See All Comments (19) | Post Comment Jun 20, 2010 1:36pm EDT You have to wonder! Israel is bending, under extreme pressure to Western demands. HOWEVER, Hamas an Internationally recognized terrorist organization, still refuses to even recognize the state of Israel. Where is the hue & cry. Where is the will to force Hamas to bend even a little. If not to recognize at least not to threaten it with destruction. Not in Hamas leadership best interests. This way, living far from the misery they created, they can live in luxury on the backs of their own people. jerryatric Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 2:14pm EDT Should we be thankful to the Nazi when they decide to “ease” the suffering of Jews and consider more humane extermination methods? The 3+ years blockage of Gaza is no better than the shameful Warsaw-ghetto imposed by the Nazi. The fact that Israel did this is an outrage to human decency. The blockage is a big prison to collectively punish the 1.5 civilian population because they voted “wrongly”. Since then Israel has intensified her assault on Gazans via extreme violence, starvation and economic strangulation. Before we start hearing the Hasbara violins playing on how poor Israelis were killed by those “thousands” of Hamas rockets – guess what? I am pretty sure the Gazans will love to trade places with the “poor Israelis” huddled in their specially built air-con bomb shelters with plenty of food and water, easy access to hospitals, hey they can leave and travel to somewhere safe – not like they were IMPRISONED. On the other hand, the Gazans civilans were imprisoned while Israel carried out a massive assault (shooting fish in a barrel) killing 1380+ including 300+ children last year. 300+ children killed!!!! Where is the outrage? Read all about it in the UN’s Goldstone report that documented Israel war crimes and atrocities. Israel is a rogue, apartheid, trigger-happy terrorist regime. Wiz2010 Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 2:19pm EDT I am really tired of hearing the same old Hasbara excuses used by Israelis apologists. Israel’s desperate desire to hold on to the occupied lands has basically made her a morally bankrupt regime. It is painful to see the nation born out of the nightmare of Nazi persecution is now doing similar things to the Palestinians. Collective punishment and imprisonment of Gaza civilians remind us of the Nazi Warsaw Ghetto. Also the wanton killings of unarmed civilians under the pretext of “self defense” or frequent use of disproportional force have somehow desensitized killing of Palestinians. It is amazing that we now react with a shrug whenever we read about Palestinians being killed by the IDF. This is not healthy and not sustainable. Contrary to the claims of Israel supporters, Israel is a liability to the US as we stand silent while Israel continues this disastrous path of destruction and moral decay. I am a firm believer that Israel has no desire for peace. Simply put, Israel knows that she has to give up the settlements (including valuable water resources) for peace and she is not going to do that. Israel has been paying lip service for peace for the last 40 years and status-quo is what Israel wants. Also Israel has built a strong support apparatus in this country that guarantees her a blank cheque in terms of providing political and propaganda cover for her transgressions. Israel knows and uses it well. Witness all the Hasbarah that our politicians are now doing for Israel starting with Pelosi. It is pretty pathetic and sad. All this in the long run is not sustainable and something is going to break/give. What Israel needs is some tough love from USA, unfortunately this is not going to happen anytime in the near future. Israel knows that she will be the international pariah, she is determined to drag us into it. Wiz2010 Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 4:49pm EDT To equate Israel’s position, surrounded by enemies sworn to destroy her to Nazi Germany is a travesty. You anti semites cannot see past your pure hatred of the Jews. Israel would settle for peace in a minute, but first get Hamas, Syria & Iran to recognize Israel’s right to existwithin secure borders! But I guess it’s no use in trying to explain rationally to MORONS filled with hate. Go to your mosques & catholic churches & get another refill from the cup of hate. U.S. & Canadian soldiers are dying to protect women & children from Jews? NO FROM Muslims. Maybe the Muslims, when they rape & murder another several thousand civilions, you will see past your hatred of Jews But I think not, as your all incapable of rational thought. jerryatric Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 5:14pm EDT And in return… It’s tough to negotiate a peace agreement when the side who started the hostilities, has been targeting civilians and non-combatants for over sixty years and has lost every battle and war gives nothing. It’s diplomacy in the bizarro world. tergen Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 5:18pm EDT @jerryatric, if the Israelis continue their shameful actions there is no doubt that anti-Semitism will increase. It is Israel and its religious fanatics that are endangering the world. Israel should adopt a more balanced approach. The Israelis are a deeply traumatized people which is understandable after the holocaust. But what it is sad is that they now feel they need to do the same to others. The situation in Gaza does make you think of a Ghetto. The illegal (according to the ONU) occupation of Palestinian territory, the inhumane manner in which they conduct as occupiers, etc make one think of the Nazi. This is only possible history has made the Jews a nation of hard liners with an unquenchable thirst for their enemies (and those they have made their enemies or who they create as tehy enemies) blood… Most paedophiles have been themselves victims of paedophilia but that does not excuse them. Pedro07 Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 6:06pm EDT Shameful actions are those of Hamas, Syria, Hezbollah & Iran! They, as group, are bent on destroying Israel & driving the Jews into the sea. They have tried several times & failed. Religious fanatical Jews are not causing the wars in the world, nor are they responsible for the World Trade Center, or London subway bombing. IT’S MUSLIMS! The Jews of Europe who managed to escape the Nazis were turned back by Western countries – NONE IS TOO MANY! Jews have been driven out of their homes of centuries in the other Arab countries. Now the Jew says NEVER AGAIN! And by the actions of the West & the U.S. President, Israel has itself to defend herself, NO ONE ELSE! So let Hamas keep their populace under a terrible situation while their leaders live it up in comfort at a safe distance, & foment violence. jerryatric Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 6:40pm EDT It is doubtful whether the new Israeli moves, agreed to with a patently suspect negotiator, Tony Blair of the Iraq War, is anything but reformulation of the terms of the Blockade which Israeli leaders are happy to acknowledge. The same tactic was and is used before. The settlements in the West Bank are one example. But Israel’s resort to the national three-card trick politics is historic, and dates bank to the inception of the troubled and troubling state. In the case of the Gaza Blockade, there is, however, a difference. Until it is lifted, there will be no end to flotillas, and no end to Israeli ‘commandos’ raiding civilian ships in international waters and attacking and probably killing civilians – and ‘killing civilians’ has been the hallmark of Israeli military operations – some say since the massacre of Arab villagers in 1949, according to Israeli historians. This only means one thing. The world will continue to hear the vapid stories about Israel’s right to exist (Who is denying whose right to exist? Israel or the Palestinians?), and turning anti-Semitism into a tool to silence criticism of Israeli policies. RBurton Report As Abusive Jun 20, 2010 6:48pm EDT Jerryatric, you display the typical traumatized behaviour where the past justifies anything at the present. Always screaming “never again” while at the same time they are doing it to others all over again. I think killing 300+ children and 300+ women as the Israelis did in their Jan09 attack is shameful. I think making Gaza a ghetto is shameful. I think extrajudicial killings are shameful. Don’t you? C’mon are you blind? Pedro07 Report As Abusive See All Comments (19) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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