More on the history of Jewish Gaza
This is a 2005 JPost article by Sarah Honig that was sent to me by reader Zelig R. It's from two and a half months before the Gaza expulsion. Until the Sharon-Olmert government expelled all its Jews, Gaza was as much a part of the Jewish State as Yad Mordechai and Nitzanim (which are within the 'green line') and Kfar Etzion (which is in Judea, but which most Israelis would argue should remain part of Israel in a hallucinatory 'settlement' with the 'Palestinians' - you commonly hear that referred to as a 'settlement bloc' that will be kept in any future 'arrangement'). Here's an excerpt:Read the whole thing.All four once-lost settlements were lovingly revived. Nobody nowadays would imagine ceding Yad Mordechai or Nitzanim. Their earlier liberation placed them within the Green Line. For now, the vast majority of Israelis consider it sacrilege to even suggest giving up Kfar Etzion. Its bloodletting and courage are still part of our fading national lore.
But phoenix-like Kfar Darom - twice destroyed and twice arisen from its ashes - is about to be surrendered. It isn't because of battlefield disasters but because an uncoerced Israeli government decided to unilaterally sacrifice it. That's all that differentiates Kfar Darom from Kfar Etzion (also liberated from Arab occupation in 1967), or from Yad Mordechai and Nitzanim (fellow victims of genocidal Egyptian aggression).
What will the sacrifice of Kfar Darom prove? Only that trendy defeatist dogma considers Jewish losses irretrievable, while Arab losses are inherently reversible and mandate a return to square one.
Jews are portable. They can never legitimately regain territory forcibly wrested from them. If they do, they'll be branded unlawful occupiers. This is something for all the good folks in Yad Mordechai, Nitzanim and Kfar Etzion to lose sleep over.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:18 AM
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Jews had as much right to live Gaza as Arabs have within Israel proper. It is considered racism to suggest expelling Arabs from Israel but it was viewed as an act of justice to expel Jews from Gaza. Israel's Left sees Jews as the enemy not the Arabs and this is underscored both by its demands for Israel to surrender to Arab terror and in prosecuting Jews who simply point out the obvious truth that Arabs breed terror. So a significant part of Israel's establishment is not only devoted to cutting the Jews down to size but to making sure the Jews don't become powerful enough to threaten them again.
Here's an excellent post from Elder of Ziyon on the topic.
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