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economic strangulation

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Noun1.economic strangulation - punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them; "the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party"
penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment - the act of punishing


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The international boycott of Palestine's democratically elected Hamas government, combined with Israel's policy of deliberate economic strangulation has resulted in severe poverty for Palestinians, rivaling that of some African nations.
No one doubts that they have the firepower and the resolve to militarily occupy the West Bank and Gaza and by economic strangulation to force the Palestinian population into peonage or exile.
She mentions the corruption of the Palestinian Authority as one of the reasons for the economic decline but points out that the effect of corruption is minor in comparison to the economic strangulation Israel imposed through the ongoing closures of the territories.
 
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