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To: EternalVigilance
Bringing it back to the basics, I have a question:

Isn't the Gaza Strip and West Bank part of Israel?

OK, two questions:

Why doesn't the IDF reclaim these areas and 'deport' anyone that does not want to live by Israeli laws? Heck, are these Palestinians even classified as Israeli citizens?


deport = probably have to kill half of them because they'd shoot back.
15 posted on 10/24/2003 2:51:59 PM PDT by tazman3 (Why is this so complicated?)
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To: tazman3
Isn't the Gaza Strip and West Bank part of Israel?
Historically, it varies. For the moment, I'll just talk about the 20th century.
In 1922, the British colonial outpost of Palestine was divided. 3/4 of the territory, Trans-Jordanian Palestine became the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, which was to be home for the Palestinian Arabs. The boundaries are roughly those of modern Jordan. The Golan Heights were given to French Syria.
The remainder, or Cis-Jordan became the British Mandate of Palestine for the creation of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Unfortunately, the British continued to allow Arab immigration after 1922 and then installed a viciously anti-Semitic Grand Muft, Haj Amin Al-Husseini (Abdul Raouf Husseini, aka Yassir Arafat, claims to be a cousin of this friend of the SS). The Grand Mufti used his position to incite both the pre-1890 Arabs and the immigrant Arabs against the Jews. There were a series of riots and massacres, the worst being one in Hebron where a 3000 year old community was expelled in 1927 after many members were killed. The British responded by arming Arab militia and suspending Jewish migration to Palestine. The inevitable result was a large surge in Arab population to prevent the creation of Israel.
In 1947 after years of terrorism, the British decided to give up and turned the problem over to the UN. The UN divided Palestine roughly along ethnic lines. The Arabs rejected teh plan and invaded. At the end of the Israeli War of Independence, Palestine was divided into Israel and the Egyptian occupied Gaza strip and Jordanian occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem (traditionally Arab my ASS!).
The Gazans became Egyptians adn the West Bank Arabs became Jordanian. (Tranjordan became Jordan in 1949?).
Israel Captured Gaza, the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Sinain peninsula in 1967.

I consider Gaza, the West Bank (also called Judea and Samaria), and the Golan Heights to be part of Israel. Israel annexed the Golan Hieghts and all of Jerusalem. The rest is up for negotiation.

Why doesn't the IDF reclaim these areas and 'deport' anyone that does not want to live by Israeli laws? Heck, are these Palestinians even classified as Israeli citizens?
Arabs who chose to remain in Israel during and after the war of Independence are full citizens. Those in the contested territories are not.
I support deportation with compensation.

31 posted on 10/24/2003 4:45:51 PM PDT by rmlew (Peaceniks and isolationists are objectively pro-Terrorist)
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