The Gaza Prison Camp (Non-US pol)

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I stumbled on this article. I would like some FACTUAL feedback from people who have knowledge in the area. The statements are those of Nonie Darwish, who now lives in the US. I know that some of the statements are true, but the article goes beyond what I know. I'm looking for knowlegeable comments, with no flames. Comment?

The Gaza Prison Camp
Posted March 16, 2008 | 11:34 PM (EST)

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"Gaza conditions at '40-year low'" the BBC headlined last week. Rarely a week goes by without a politician or organization deploring the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. But I do not hear anyone describe its root cause: 60 years of Arab policy aimed at maintaining Palestinians as stateless refugees in order to pressure Israel.

I lived in Gaza as a child in the 1950s when Egypt conducted guerrilla-style operations against Israel from Gaza, then under Egyptian control. My father commanded these operations, carried out by "fedayeen," (which means, "self sacrifice"). This became the frontline of Arab Jihad against Israel. My father was killed by Israel in a targeted assassination in 1956.

Today the Gaza Strip, now under the control of Hamas, has become the Gaza prison camp for 1.5 million Palestinians and continues to serve as the launching pad for attacks against Israeli citizens.

This is the legacy of the Arab world's Palestinian refugee policy, started 60 years ago, when the Arab League implemented special laws regarding Palestinians that all Arab countries had to abide by. Arab countries could not absorb Palestinians. Even if a Palestinian married a citizen of an Arab country, that Palestinian could not become a citizen of his or her spouse's country. A Palestinian can be born, live and die in an Arab country, but never gain its citizenship. Even now I receive e-mails from Palestinians telling me they cannot have a Syrian passport, for example, and must remain Palestinian even though they have never set foot in the West Bank or Gaza. Forcing the Palestinian identity on them is designed to perpetuate the Palestinian refugee status. Palestinians have been used and abused by Arab nations, and by Palestinian terrorists, for the purpose of destroying Israel.

The 22 Arab states certainly do not have a shortage of land. Many surrounding Arab areas, such as the Sinai Peninsula, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, are very sparsely populated. But absorbing Palestinians would end their refugee status and their desire to harm Israel.

Arab wealth, which is increasing dramatically because of skyrocketing oil prices, is not used to improve the lives, infrastructure and economy of the people of the West Bank and Gaza. Instead, it supports terror groups who reject Israel's existence and oppose peace with Israel. The average Gaza man has a better employment opportunity if he joins Hamas.

Gazans' breach of their checkpoint with Egypt in January, orchestrated by Hamas, is a result of the Palestinian refugee policy. The checkpoints on the Arab side of Gaza could not keep the inmates inside. The Arab plan to overpopulate Gaza exploded in the wrong direction. After this explosion, Suleiman Awwad, an Egyptian administration spokesman, said, "Egypt is a respected state, its border cannot be breached and its soldiers should not be lobbed with stones." In other words, Egypt is not like Israel, which is a disrespected state. Gazans should not direct the violence at Egypt, only at Israel. This is Arab conventional wisdom.

Last month Hamas threatened to bring 40,000 Palestinians, primarily children and women, to the Gaza border with Israel to protest Israel's restrictions on Gaza. Some Hamas leaders hinted they would send these protestors to breach the border, once again demonstrating that the Palestinian terrorists have no qualms about endangering the lives of innocent people -- Israelis or Palestinians. Fortunately, only 5,000 showed up.

But Hamas did succeed two days later in killing an Israeli: a 47 year-old father of four during a rocket attack from Gaza while he was sitting in his car next to Sapir College near Sderot. Two weeks earlier, two Israeli brothers, Osher and Rami Twito, ages 8 and 19, were seriously injured by a rocket from Gaza while buying their father a birthday present. Osher's left leg had to be amputated.

Israel completely left Gaza in August 2005. In May and June 2007, Hamas waged war against its Palestinian brothers in Fatah to gain control of Gaza. Hamas intensified its rockets attacks on Israeli towns, compelling Israel to take economic and military measures against Gaza. Hamas has become a danger not only to Israel, but to Palestinians and to neighboring Arab countries, as well. Nevertheless, the Arab world still refuses to see its role in creating this monster. It is difficult to find a similar situation in human history: the intentional creation of a refugee status for a million and a half people, sustained for 60 years. The Arab world has cut its nose to spite its face.

The world needs to understand that this dangerous mess started when 22 Arab countries agreed to create a human prison called the Gaza Strip. Arabs claim they love the Palestinian people, but they seem more interested in sacrificing them. It is time for the Arab world to open their side of the borders and absorb the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza who wish to be absorbed. It is time for the Arab world to truly help the Palestinians, not use them.

Nonie Darwish, who grew up in Cairo and Gaza City, is the author of, "Now They Call me Infidel."
 
The reason most of the so called "Palestinian refugees" Left Israel in the first place was Arab propaganda, not anything the Isralies did. All the talk of a Pestinian homeland is crap! The Brits spit the Palestine Mandate into two areas in the 1920s, one third is now Israel and two thirds is called Jordan, there is the Palestinian homeland!
The refugees in Gaza and those in Lebannon have been kept in tent camps for 60 years by their fellow Arabs as propaganda tools.
 
The refugees in Gaza and those in Lebannon have been kept in tent camps for 60 years by their fellow Arabs as propaganda tools.

Proof, please....and not from Fox.

Lebanon is spelled this way. Do you realize how your constant misspellings make you appear?
 
CLOUDY

C'mon! You can get all the info you want online or from the library.

The Brits partitioned Palestine into Israel and Transjordan in 1947. The Arabs attacked Israel in 1948. The Palestinians left Israel. The Arabs lost the war.

In fact, most Arabs dont like Palestinians.
 
CLOUDY

C'mon! You can get all the info you want online or from the library.

The Brits partitioned Palestine into Israel and Transjordan in 1947. The Arabs attacked Israel in 1948. The Palestinians left Israel. The Arabs lost the war.

In fact, most Arabs dont like Palestinians.

That wasn't what I was asking. Read it again. C'mon, James...keep up!
 
Jordan is not a Palestinian homeland, it's a Bedouin homeland. Bedouins and Palestinians are two different peoples and the king of Jordan has specifically excluded any more Palestinians from moving there because he doesn't want any more trouble with Israel being started by either Fatah or Hamas.
 
VM

No one is arguing where the players call home. In fact, everyone to come along since 3000 BC has fought over Palestine. The Jews were originally from Iraq, I think. Hebrew means vagrant, in one of the old languages.

But the Brits controlled Palestine and they partitioned it how they pleased.

Personally, I suspect no resolution is possible. I suspect the oil companies pay Hamas and the others to incite shit, just to keep the price of oil high.
 
Jordan is not a Palestinian homeland, it's a Bedouin homeland. Bedouins and Palestinians are two different peoples and the king of Jordan has specifically excluded any more Palestinians from moving there because he doesn't want any more trouble with Israel being started by either Fatah or Hamas.

Oh, I'm sure that to DesertPirate, all brown people are the same.
 
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The refugees in Gaza and those in Lebannon have been kept in tent camps for 60 years by their fellow Arabs as propaganda tools.

Proof, please....and not from Fox.

The 'refugees' from Palestine have 'chosen' to live in camps. The camps are located in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. You can Google up the info from any number of sources.

The camps aren't 'tent camps,' but mainly built of cement block.

The situation in the camps can best be described by reading the article written by the Arab woman. The Palesitinians in the camps are basically prisoners. They can't get jobs in Lebanon and the Palestinian 'leadership' has made it effectively impossible for the people in the camps to earn a living, as they're too busy planning to kill Jews.

The Palestinians in the camps are pawns of the Arab governments in the middle-east. There are large numbers of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel. The Palestinian Arabs don't want any Jews at all living in the West Bank or in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Arabs living in Israel can have jobs, vote and are represented in the Israeli Knesset [Parliament.] The Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon aren't allowed to work and earn money. The Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip can't make a living, because Hamas forces them to live in a combat zone.

Yasser Arafat, the Egyptian, destroyed Lebanon. He then returned to the West Bank and again destroyed the lives of the Palestinians living there. You can read all the propaganda you want from either side. What you need to Google up is the average Israeli yearly earnings and the average Palestinian yearly earnings.
 
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The refugees in Gaza and those in Lebannon have been kept in tent camps for 60 years by their fellow Arabs as propaganda tools.



The 'refugees' from Palestine have 'chosen' to live in camps. The camps are located in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. You can Google up the info from any number of sources.

The camps aren't 'tent camps,' but mainly built of cement block.

The situation in the camps can best be described by reading the article written by the Arab woman. The Palesitinians in the camps are basically prisoners. They can't get jobs in Lebanon and the Palestinian 'leadership' has made it effectively impossible for the people in the camps to earn a living, as they're too busy planning to kill Jews.

The Palestinians in the camps are pawns of the Arab governments in the middle-east. There are large numbers of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel. The Palestinian Arabs don't want any Jews at all living in the West Bank or in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Arabs living in Israel can have jobs, vote and are represented in the Israeli Knesset [Parliament.] The Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon aren't allowed to work and earn money. The Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip can't make a living, because Hamas forces them to live in a combat zone.

Yasser Arafat, the Egyptian, destroyed Lebanon. He then returned to the West Bank and again destroyed the lives of the Palestinians living there. Yoy can read all the propaganda you want from either side. What you need to Google up is the average Israeli yearly earnings and the average Palestinian yearly earnings.

I asked for proof - look the word up. I certainly didn't ask for another boring, biased, and incorrect diatribe from you.
 
I asked for proof - look the word up. I certainly didn't ask for another boring, biased, and incorrect diatribe from you.

If I'm incorrect, please tell me exactly where I'm incorrect, so that I may improve. TIA.
 
Jordan is not a Palestinian homeland, it's a Bedouin homeland. Bedouins and Palestinians are two different peoples and the king of Jordan has specifically excluded any more Palestinians from moving there because he doesn't want any more trouble with Israel being started by either Fatah or Hamas.

Britain created "Trans-Jordan" from two thirds of the Palestine Mandate they were giver to govern by the League of Nations. What was left became Israel.

Gaza was kept in squalor by Nasser of Egypt as a way to build anti-Israel sentiment in Egypt, since the Gaza strip is actually part of Sinai and therefore Egypt.
 
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