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The True Gaza Backstory It's About Land, Stupid
Fisk, Robert http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/10/the-true-gaza-backstory/
Publisher: CounterPunch Date Written: 10/07/2014 Year Published: 2014 Resource Type: Article
How come all those Palestinians all 1.5 million are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didnt they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out or fled for their lives when the Israeli state was created.
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Its about land. The Israelis of Sederot are coming under rocket fire from the Palestinians of Gaza and now the Palestinians are getting their comeuppance. Sure.
But wait, how come all those Palestinians all 1.5 million are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didnt they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out or fled for their lives when the Israeli state was created.
And a drawing in of breath is now perhaps required the people who lived in Sederot in early 1948 were not Israelis, but Palestinian Arabs. Their village was called Huj. Nor were they enemies of Israel. Two years earlier, these same Arabs had actually hidden Jewish Haganah fighters from the British Army. But when the Israeli army turned up at Huj on 31 May 1948, they expelled all the Arab villagers to the Gaza Strip! Refugees, they became.
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