Yep my bad, its was the West Bank not Gaza.
But still the point remains, why is Israel occupying the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, land Israel can never own, and land Israel has no business in.
Israel has occupation/control because the arabs ceded the territory to Israel and the Palestinians in those territories afterwards showed no wish for peace with Israel but encouraged conflict on Israel population centeres
After 43 damn years its long past time for the world to tell Israel to get the hell out of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
Who is going to ensure that the reason that Israel is there, will not happen again. Hamas just demonstrated that they are itching for another conflict.
But Israel does not want peace, it wants to keep occupying Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. And will never agree in any peace talks to voluntarily leave what amounts to a totally illegitimate occupation.
Israel does not want Gaza - it gave it up. It wants the Palestinians in Gaza to allow Israel to live in peace; not have to worry about rockets and suicide bombers. It is Gaza that continually demonstrates that they want war not peace.
The solution is simple, have the world impose a total economic embargo on Israel and they will leave and not before. And then we can remove the Israeli embargo just like that other Apartheid State in South Africa.
economic embargo will kill Gaza and hurt the West Bank much more than Israel. Remember, that Gaza is completely dependent on Israel as a lifeline.
But then we can have some peace in the mid-east as Israel lives within secure recognized borders and the Palestinians can finally have an economy of their own.
The key word is secure - will the Palestinians and Arab countries accept such. At present, the answer has been no.
Isn't 43 years of an illegitimate Israel occupation 43 years too long! Its long past time to demand Israel gets the hell out of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem yesterday.