the (recently reduced to) 600 checkpoints which Palestinians must have Israeli permission to cross when moving from one part of the West Bank where they are allowed to another in which thy are allowed. I wonder what labels the Rightists who post here would find entirely appropriate, and I would agree with them, if Jews were being treated this way in any part of this planet. And if any other ethnic/religious/whatever group was being subjected this way anywhere, the same label would spring to mind immediately, as it did when describing the Botha regime in SA.
(Well, then only the leftists found that label applicable - the Rightists then also supported the treatment of the native population using all sorts of bizarre nonsense to "justify" the murderous and vicious policies of that apartheid regime.)
Well, the Rightists will say, this is different. The Palestinians (subtext: religious Unbelievers or ethnic/tribal Others) are not like Us. "They" are determined to destroy Us. "They" are are inferior and malevolent beings which threaten our State and our Security and the Purity of our Motherland and "They," the Subhumans, need to be suppressed and driven out or imprisoned or denied access to anything beyond the minimum needed to survive.
Seeing that same old all-too-common right-wing hate-mongering theme-scheme repeated/promoted here tirelessly, endlessly, is quite sad.
This was the Hate-Fear-Kill-Supremacist-State's policy:
The "Red Lines" document explains: "In order to make basic living in Gaza possible, the deputy defense minister approved the entry into the Gaza Strip of 106 trucks with humanitarian products, 77 of which are basic food products. The entry of wheat and animal feed was also permitted via the aggregates conveyor belt outside the Karni terminal."
After four pages filled with detailed charts of the number of grams and calories of every type of food to be permitted for consumption by Gaza residents (broken down by gender and age), comes this recommendation: "It is necessary to deal with the international community and the Palestinian Health Ministry to provide nutritional supplements (only some of the flour in Gaza is enriched) and to provide education about proper nutrition." Printed in large letters at the end of the document is this admonition: "The stability of the humanitarian effort is critical for the prevention of the development of malnutrition."
In fact, the number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip is very close to the absolute minimum required for basic sustenance, as determined by the IDF itself. Data compiled by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, shows that while the minimum number of trucks per day set by the IDF is 106, in May, 117 trucks passed through the Kerem Shalom terminal; in April the number was 113 and, before the start of Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, just 37.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092196.html 
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