Don't litter.
Don't walk in the street.
Bring your book to class.
No food allowed.
Don't be late to class.
For American school children, rules form a huge part of the school experience. Consequences are generally enforced, and students start complying or paying the price.
Rules have another quality here. They do not govern the small behaviors of the day, they govern the larger framework of society.
Don't go to Jerusalem.
Don't travel on this road.
No books ordered from outside sources.
Pay Israeli tax on everything you buy.
So many big rules exist that small rules like "don't throw your candy wrapper on the ground" seem silly. Why not seize any big of freedom available, by scaling a wall, staying at recess past the bell, or deciding whether or not to do homework. American students make the same decisions, but in a context of much greater relative freedoms.
The rules that describe how the reconstruction of Gaza will be carried out (under Israeli and Palestinian Unity supervision) give a sense of the different degree of freedom to choose that Palestinians face. This is from the following article in The Middle East Eye
Don't walk in the street.
Bring your book to class.
No food allowed.
Don't be late to class.
For American school children, rules form a huge part of the school experience. Consequences are generally enforced, and students start complying or paying the price.
Rules have another quality here. They do not govern the small behaviors of the day, they govern the larger framework of society.
Don't go to Jerusalem.
Don't travel on this road.
No books ordered from outside sources.
Pay Israeli tax on everything you buy.
So many big rules exist that small rules like "don't throw your candy wrapper on the ground" seem silly. Why not seize any big of freedom available, by scaling a wall, staying at recess past the bell, or deciding whether or not to do homework. American students make the same decisions, but in a context of much greater relative freedoms.
The rules that describe how the reconstruction of Gaza will be carried out (under Israeli and Palestinian Unity supervision) give a sense of the different degree of freedom to choose that Palestinians face. This is from the following article in The Middle East Eye
The report lists the known components of the agreement as follows.
Firstly, the security arrangements will closely resemble the ones agreed (but never implemented) after the November 2012 operation “Pillar of Cloud”, with the notable addition of the expansion of the fishing zone to six nautical miles.
Secondly, construction materials will be pre-ordered through Israel, where Israeli teams of engineers will have to approve exact quantities of materials for each specific project. The materials will be ferried in to Israeli-authorised international organizations, who will store them in special facilities under 24-hour CCTV supervision, with footage accessible to Israel.
The reconstruction sites will then be monitored by Israeli drones, to make sure no materials are used for any other purpose and that each bit of materiel is accounted for.
Private homes will be rebuilt by private but also Israeli-vetted Gaza contractors, who will manage the construction materials through special software accessible also to Israel, and whose works will also be monitored by drones.
I will look at these rules with my tenth graders this week, who are in a unit on Rules and Authority. 
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