Political tension and outbreaks of violence often led Israeli authorities to close the border for extended periods, putting many Palestinians out of work.
Israel had closed the borders for Passover, but some West Bank Christians were allowed to cross for Easter celebrations.
Well, if we consider the interrelationship between the Turkish and the Syrian populations perhaps for centuries, there can be no argument for closing the borders for Syrians (MFA interview 2, Ankara, February 2014).
Tensions between the two countries rose after the siege, as the authorities in Myanmar closed the border for two months and strengthened their military presence.
When the Aurora docked, its cruise-from-hell image took on different overtones: Spain, citing public health, closed the border, for the first time since the dictator Franco shut it for political reasons in 1969.
"Here, in order to avoid the taboo of racism, we find ourselves in the grotesque situation where African states close the borders between themselves for fear of spreading Ebola… whereas we leave them wide open without doing any medical checks on who is arriving in our country from who-knows-where".
"If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade (or) for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy," he said.
If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade [or] for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy".
Colonel Shammari said the Americans in Al Qaim sometimes closed the border crossing for days or even weeks at a time, and once for a month starting April 17 as they tried to stamp out the insurgency raging around the city.
In 2008, the Pakistanis closed the border crossing for several days after American aircraft bombed a Pakistani paramilitary post in Mohmand, another tribal area.
