re: #55 Romantic Heretic

I’m pretty sure Israel, or whoever is making the decisions, wants Gaza to be uninhabitable. This, they believe, will make that border of Israel safe forever.

They are, after a fashion, correct. The toll on human lives, both Palestinian and Israeli, is one they are willing to pay.

Sigh.

Before 1973, wasn’t Gaza part of Egypt? And when Israel gave back the Sinai, but Egypt agreed they could keep Gaza, why didn’t all those Egyptian citizens go to actual Egypt? (or did Egypt leave them there on purpose just to be a headache? I’m pretty sure that was Jordan’s rationale for not taking in all the Jordanians when they relinquished their claim on the West Bank.)