Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: "Nowhere to Run": Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis [View all]polly7
(20,582 posts)"So what of Gaza? What does it mean when Israel threatens, bombs, and kills to ensure its compliance? Its compliance with what?
Note that the territorial and demographic reality that is the Gaza Strip is itself, to begin, an ominous reflection of Israeli colonial strategy to date: When transfer doesnt work, concentration is tried.
In 1948, the greater part of Palestines population was forcefully displaced beyond Israels pre-1967 sphere of control to clear the way for Israels anachronistic pioneering. A great number of the transferred ended up in the Gaza Strip. Their nearby existence quickly gave rise to an abiding Israeli wish: If I believed in miracles, declared David Ben-Gurion in an October 1956 Knesset speech, I would pray that Gaza would be washed down into the sea.[8] After 1967, Gazas inhabitants not only remained above water but came under direct Israeli rule.
Several decades later, they surely arent taking up very much room. Taken in isolation, Darryl Li wrote in 2006, the Gaza Strip is often described as one of the most densely populated places on earth: 1.4 million Palestinians crowded into 365 square kilometers. But in the broader Zionist calculus of minima and maxima, this fact can be redescribed as follows: some 25 percent of all Palestinians living under Israeli control have been confined to 1.4 percent of the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine.
http://www.zcommunications.org/for-israel-imperialism-isn-t-enough-by-dan-freeman-maloy