Gaza is Out

In my thank-you notes to readers who donated money via PayPal, I said I was planning a trip into Gaza with the IDF. As it turns out, this will not be possible and I can’t do anything about it. I don’t want to get into the specific reasons why this is, but I will say that that it has nothing to do with Israeli censorship of the media. As far as I know, there is no censorship of the media in this country at all. No one has pressured me in any way whatsoever aside from asking me politely (once) not to take pictures of a single front line military site during the war.
Sorry about missing Gaza. I tried. Maybe on my next trip when American journalists aren’t being kidnapped. In the meantime, I will try to figure out what’s happening in there from a distance and report what I can.
UPDATE: Just so we’re clear here (and I can see from the comments that this is not clear), I am being prevented from going into Gaza against my will. It’s for security reasons, not for government media censorship reasons. That’s just the way it is, and I cannot control it.