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<text id=89TT2355>
<title>
Sep. 11, 1989: World Notes:Middle East
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
MIDDLE EAST
Faxless In Gaza
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<p> The Israel Defense Forces have identified and banned a new
form of subversion: intifadeh by facsimile machine. Last week
the I.D.F. ruled that residents of the Gaza Strip can no longer
own or operate faxes without a special license. There were fewer
than 15 machines in the hands of Gaza's Palestinian residents,
but most of them were at the offices of local press agencies
that sell reports on the uprising to the international media.
The restriction already exists for Palestinians in the West
Bank.
</p>
<p> This antifax action could be a mistake, the Israeli daily
Ha'aretz said, because it "will obviously serve as a juicy news
item throughout the world." Since the occupation of Gaza and
the West Bank is "unjustified" and "foolish," said Knesset
member Ran Cohen, a peace activist, "such occupation produces
foolish and cruel orders." But the Israelis have banned
communications before. From February 1988 to February 1989,
Palestinians in the occupied territories were forbidden to make
overseas phone calls.
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</body></article>
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