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Sand boxes
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[edit]- On [[2009-03-26]], far right-wing extremists marched through the demographically Arab city of [[Umm al-Fahm]].<ref>{{cite news |title=28 injured, 13 arrested as rightists march in Umm al-Fahm |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073724.html |publisher=[[Haaretz]] |location=Israel |date=[[2009-03-26]] |coauthors=Yoav Stern, Eli Ashkenazi and Nadav Shragai}}</ref> Participants included racist extremists [[Baruch Marzel]] and [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]].
- Even when relief workers and other foreign citizens were allowed to cross the border, journalists were refused entry into Gaza by Israel while at the same Israeli commentators offered to guide the journalists around areas of Israel that had been hit by rockets. The [[Foreign Press Association of Israel]] released a statement saying, “The unprecedented denial of access to Gaza for the world’s media amounts to a severe violation of press freedom and puts the state of Israel in the company of a handful of regimes around the world which regularly keep journalists from doing their jobs.” <ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07media.html |date=[[2009-01-06]] |title=Israel Puts Media Clamp on Gaza |first=Ethan |last=Bronner |publisher=[[New York Times]]}}</ref>
Gaza War#Propaganda and psychological warfare
- The Israeli foreign ministry's public relations department organized Israeli volunteers to use news and discussion websites to spread pro-Israeli commentary related to [[Operation Cast Lead]] in [[Gaza]]. Volunteers proficient in languages other than Hebrew were particularly sought after. <ref>{{cite news | title=Hasbara spam alert |author=Silverstein, Richard |date=January 9, 2009 |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/israel-foreign-ministry-media?commentpage=3&commentposted=1 |publisher=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Latest hasbara weapon: 'Army of bloggers' |author= JONATHAN BECK |date=[[2009-01-19]] | url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292897417&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |publisher=Jerusalem Post }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Israel recruits 'army of bloggers' to combat anti-Zionist Web sites |author=Cnaan Liphshiz |date=19/01/2009 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html |publisher=Haaretz }}</ref>