The Toronto Star caught up with Gaza showboater Jeff Halper. Towards the end is this inaccurate snippet — which reporter Oakland Ross does not specifically attribute to Halper:
For more than a year, the Israeli government has controlled access to the territory, by land, sea or air – a degree of authority many say is tantamount to occupation.
Meanwhile, the Israelis have ignored many of the humanitarian duties imposed upon an occupying power by international law.
“Controlled access to the territory?” Just last February, 700,000 Gazans (nearly half the strip’s population) breached the the border not with Israel but with Egypt, making a mockery of any vestiges of both Israeli or Egyptian authority.
And who the occupies Gaza anyway? The only foreigners you’ll find in Gaza nowadays are UN personnel, NGO volunteers, probably some foreign jihadis, and the occasional Western journalist.
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