| Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| So They Loaded Up the Trucks and Moved to Jerusalem |
Some things don't make sense to me. And this is one of them: Israel occupied Gaza for 38 years and then declared that the settlers would have to move out.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did not require anything of the Palestinians as a trade. 38 years ago the Palestinians did not even inhabit Gaza because they had declared it a wasteland. After the land was captured in the Six-Day War, Israelis moved in and settled on the land.
The people of Israel are well-known for their desert reclamation techniques and began to turn the area in a thriving community--a flourishing, green community. Now Israelis are dragging Israelis out of synagogues and kicking them off of the land on which they have raised families? There could possibly be three generations of settlers that have called Gaza "home".
Now Palestine has access to the Mediterranean which opens up a port for them to radical terrorist nations to supply Hamas and other extreme groups. Palestine doesn't have to give up or do anything to get the land. And Hamas has declared a victory.
Doesn't that sound fishy? So this whole thing sparked an interest in me to read through the book of Joshua. But I'll save that for another post.
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