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82. Israel controlled Gaza whilst under Egyptian occupation

Reply to intaglio (Reply #81)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:33 AM

Sep 2014

Prior to 1967 ?

Very interesting grasp of history. Do tell is all how that worked...

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International Group Says It Will Take 20 Years To Build Adequate Housing For Gaza [View all] Purveyor Aug 2014 OP

Even longer, if Hamas keeps diverting cement and timber to build tunnels. n/t ColesCountyDem Aug 2014 #1

They need the tunnels to import goods past the illegal blockade cpwm17 Aug 2014 #3

They don't need tunnels into Israel hack89 Aug 2014 #6

The Egyptians say the tunnels are illegal, too. n/t ColesCountyDem Aug 2014 #8

You mean Egyptian strong man, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says so cpwm17 Aug 2014 #9

Even though the Islamic Brotherhood said so. n/t ColesCountyDem Aug 2014 #23

Doesn't stop them being primarily for humanitarian imports intaglio Aug 2014 #10

Who says they're 'primarily for humanitarian imports'? ColesCountyDem Aug 2014 #24

Mainly the UN and the Palestinians intaglio Aug 2014 #26

Show me where the UN says that the tunnels are used primarily for 'humanitarian imports'. ColesCountyDem Aug 2014 #27

*crickets* n/t ColesCountyDem Sep 2014 #64

You mean shorter, in case you had trouble reading it was the shortages that are the issue Exultant Democracy Sep 2014 #59

I read quite well, thank you. ColesCountyDem Sep 2014 #63

Do you really doubt this is what Israel wants, and ahs planned? How obvious must it get? Threedifferentones Sep 2014 #65

These questions are complete non-sequiturs, in response to what I posted. n/t ColesCountyDem Sep 2014 #66

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Assuming that housing isn't bombed or blown up as fast as it's built. Sancho Aug 2014 #2

Exactly what I was thinking. nt Chemisse Aug 2014 #29

Me too. GoneFishin Aug 2014 #51

Let me fix that for you. PDJane Aug 2014 #4

Aren't you the smug one. HERVEPA Aug 2014 #5

Not smug. Tired of the narrative that isn't and never was. PDJane Aug 2014 #32

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Looks like Hamas has some soul searching to do hack89 Aug 2014 #7

Perhaps Israel has some soul searching to do intaglio Aug 2014 #11

Yet the blockade was declared legal by one UN organization hack89 Aug 2014 #12

The blockade is a unilateral action intaglio Aug 2014 #13

But unilateral in response to an unilateral act of war hack89 Aug 2014 #19

Errr - totally and completely wrong intaglio Aug 2014 #21

Let s remember what history tells us about revolts hack89 Aug 2014 #22

And what happens when they try to extend the revolt? intaglio Aug 2014 #25

They get crushed hack89 Aug 2014 #28

So in your world might makes right intaglio Aug 2014 #35

There is a fundamental difference hack89 Aug 2014 #36

The people of Gaza have a way out??? intaglio Aug 2014 #37

There was no blockade before the rockets. No wall before the suicide bombers hack89 Aug 2014 #38

What a perfect mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda you are intaglio Aug 2014 #39

Does Hamas have the right to acquire whatever weapons they want? Yes or no. Nt hack89 Aug 2014 #40

Does Israeli have the right to acquire any weapon they want? intaglio Aug 2014 #41

So we have two states at war hack89 Aug 2014 #42

Well the alternative would be for Israel to stop its oppression of innocent Palestinians intaglio Aug 2014 #43

But the rockets have to stop first hack89 Aug 2014 #44

And Hamas would say the oppression has to stop first intaglio Aug 2014 #45

But Hamas is the weaker party hack89 Aug 2014 #46

So you are back with "might is right" again intaglio Aug 2014 #47

I suppose Israel could stop retaliating hack89 Aug 2014 #48

No. Might is often wrong hack89 Aug 2014 #49

Yeah, right intaglio Aug 2014 #50

Hamas has a long history of suicide terror attacks hack89 Aug 2014 #53

"Since it inception it has always been under Israeli control" King_David Sep 2014 #80

I did not say occupation intaglio Sep 2014 #81

Israel controlled Gaza whilst under Egyptian occupation King_David Sep 2014 #82

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Both Hamas and Israel need to do some but they both are assholes so they wont. eom cstanleytech Aug 2014 #18

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The Arab countries that support, fund and encourage Hamas should pay hack89 Aug 2014 #20

There are two portions of Hamas; the political wing and the military wing. PDJane Aug 2014 #33

No one forced Hamas to shoot rockets at Israel either. hack89 Aug 2014 #34

Your Zionist ideology is bankrupt. That land was theirs, not yours. PDJane Sep 2014 #54

I understand that you want Israel to disappear hack89 Sep 2014 #55

I am not a Zionist - I am an atheist. hack89 Sep 2014 #56

Then stop acting like a zionist. You fool, I am a Jew. Lapsed, but most of my family isn't. PDJane Sep 2014 #57

So tell me exactly what borders Israel should have hack89 Sep 2014 #58

Personally, I think that, if Israel can't live with its neighbours, PDJane Sep 2014 #61

I think partial RoR and reparations are the answer hack89 Sep 2014 #62

Perhaps. For the Palestinians, yes. PDJane Sep 2014 #68

The issue is not necessarily the West Bank hack89 Sep 2014 #69

That's if you listen to what Israel says, without actually paying attention to what Israel does. PDJane Sep 2014 #70

Judged by their actions the same can be said for the Palestinians hack89 Sep 2014 #71

You are forgetting something. You are forgetting that, PDJane Sep 2014 #72

Suicide bombings of buses and restaurants are not allowed by the Geneva conventions hack89 Sep 2014 #73

No, but Israel is. And Israel kills more Palestinians and restricts everything that gets into Gaza. PDJane Sep 2014 #75

So there is good Hamas and evil Hamas hack89 Sep 2014 #77

You just love to misinterpret things. PDJane Sep 2014 #83

Nothing in your lists says the Geneva conventions allow violence resistance to occupation hack89 Sep 2014 #84

The Geneva Conventions do not grant an explicit right to resist occupation hack89 Sep 2014 #79

+++ Chemisse Aug 2014 #30

but that was the point, wasn't it? nt MisterP Aug 2014 #31

That was the point. To repurpose the land for settlements, the existing structures must be removed. GoneFishin Aug 2014 #52

No it wasn't oberliner Sep 2014 #74

True Scootaloo Sep 2014 #76

Uh, no. joshcryer Sep 2014 #78

That is a very creative interpretation of reality Scootaloo Sep 2014 #85

It is very much the reality joshcryer Sep 2014 #86

Give it time. They have tipped their hand. It could not be any clearer. GoneFishin Sep 2014 #87

When I mow the grass there is a lot less ethnic cleansing involved. Exultant Democracy Sep 2014 #60