Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Israel Hate is Anti-Semitism [View all]oberliner
(58,724 posts)Israel does not allow people from Gaza to enter Israel except under very specific circumstances. Similarly, the Palestinian side does not allow Israelis to enter Gaza. In fact, Israelis are banned from enter numerous countries in the region as well.
Egypt controls whether or not people from Gaza can leave Gaza and enter Egypt. There have been serious limitations on that movement, though, in the recent past, this has changed a bit with the new leadership taking over in Egypt.
With respect to the occupation, I would re-iterate that there is no part of Gaza that contains any Israeli settlement. Those concerns are in the West Bank. I do feel that there ought to be a two-state solution whereby a Palestinian state lives side by side at peace with Israel. There are numerous factors preventing this from happening, among them the leadership of Hamas (as well as the demands of Israel of course).
Both sides are quite well represented in the international media. Israeli spokespeople do the rounds, but so do Palestinian ones. If you watch Al-Jazeera or the BBC or other outlets based outside the US, you will see more diversity of voices than in the US. Various media outlets are biased in various ways of course, some towards the Israeli side (primarily in the US), and some towards the Palestinian side (much of the rest of the world).