Human Shield https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/11/human-shield/

November 25, 2013 | Walter Russell Mead

About the author: Walter Russell Mead is a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute, professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College, and editor-at-large of the American Interest. His books include Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2004), God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2007), and The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (forthcoming 2017).

As Israel loosens restrictions on the Gaza Strip, humanitarian conditions there have worsened—because Hamas refuses to pay tax to the Palestinian Authority on the import of fuel.

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