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E-mailIt an interesting statement. I have been thinking, what would be the shape of the world without Gaza. Let’s see then. From the population point of view, the earth’s population will decrease with 1 million and half. Israel will not need to keep its army on alert all the time. Its borders with Gaza will be very very quit without any need to negotiate with Hamas through Egypt because there will be no Hamas. No more rockets will be launched toward Sderot or Asqalan “in Hebrew it is Ashkelon”. Nobody will be shouting or screaming or seeking for the help of the whole world that is just watching Gaza collapsing and dieing. No need for the siege to continue any more from the Israeli side. Lots of NOs I guess. The NOs that Israel likes and wishes. I still remember the say of the former priminister Rabin who said ” I wish that one day I wake up and found out that Gaza is drown in the sea”. So if it might happen, then it means for sure that the dreams of Israel will come true. In fact the situation in Gaza gives you a feeling that the whole world “in terms of governments and officials” have the same dream or wants this situation to end up but without involving in any kind of fair solution that stops Israel from continuing in put the most heavy siege in the history. Most of the governments in the world (especially USA, EU, and even some Arabs) are weeping or even crying but with crocodile tears (an Arabic expression that shows how someone would be such hypocrite) for the suffering of the people in Gaza, the increasing number of sick people whom are dieing everyday due to medicine and treatment missing, the tens of daily crisis which they face in terms of every single life detail. 2 days ago, I hardly could found pampers for me son. It seems very silly but just let’s imagine our life without almost all ordinary items that we can easily find in any market allover the world, why? Because these items can be used for making rockets. Even international NGOs (which are not Palestinian) are facing huge problems in doing their humanitarian duties to assist and help the people. So, back to the dream stuff and to the title of my article; what would be the shape of the world without Gaza. This is just an Israeli dream which the Israeli started having it 60 years ago, I mean having not only Gaza but all Palestine without Palestinians, having the world without this Gaza thing. I believe Gaza will remain the nightmare of Israeli unless they change their policy and start thinking with their brains, not with their force and guns. As someone who lives in Gaza and had gone through the suffering that is totally Israeli made, I would recommend the Israeli to try something else rather than doing their best to make us give up and force us to do what we don’t want to do. However, I may give them a promise on behalf of all Gazaians that things will change one day and you will bow and plead us not make you pay for what have you done to our life and dreams.
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Palestinians could have had their own country three times in history (1937, 1947 and 2000), yet refused each time, simply because you wanted it ALL.
You are the authors of your own suffering with the decisions made as a group and individually.
Learn to understand that decisions have consequences, and you and your generation are paying the price for the mistakes of those who made those decisions not to accept partition. To think anything else is both childish and irresponsible.
The UN Partition Plan for Palestine was voided the moment the Arab armies attacked Israel on May 14, 1948. Any attempt to return to that starting point 60 years after the fact is not only unrealistic, it contravenes international law.
Please understand one thing: international law does not forbid the conquest of enemy territory in a defensive war. For Israel, the War of Independence was a defensive war, since it was attacked by six Arab armies. Therefore, any land included in the 1949 Armistice Agreement that was not included in the UN Partition Plan of 1947 is lost to law and historical precedent.
If those six Arab armies had been successful, would the Arab countries have returned the land defined as the “Jewish State” to any remaining Jews? You should know the answer to this question as well as I do. Under those circumstances, would you have agreed to any Jewish claim on any of the land in what had been the Palestine Mandate? I think you know the answer to this question, as well.
After much research on the topic and reading articles by a number of recognized experts on international law and the laws pertaining to war and territory, I can only say that you are being very misled about what international law really says.
If you wish, I can provide a reading list of articles that might bring you to realize just how much your leaders have been lying to you.
These are corrections to some errors in your statement:
1)The Jewish population in 1947 was approximately 650,000, or 35% of the total population of the Mandate, not 16% as you claim. This is a figure from the British Mandate Authority population census, verified by the first official Israeli census taken in 1949.
(I would also like to point this out: if there were 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948, and 150,000 Arab residents remained in Israel, then the total population of the Palestine Mandate had to be approximately 1.55 million people. For your claim of 16% to be true, that would mean that there could not have been more than 250,000 Jews in Palestine, while the British counted two and one-half times that number of Jews in 1947.)
2)The “55%” allotted to the Jewish State that you refer to included the Negev Desert, which made up almost 50% of that allotment.
