The PLO is moving forward with plans for its high profile statehood bid next Friday, but left entirely out of the discussion is where the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, actually fits in.
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The geographic issue of Palestine is something that nobody has addressed yet. One look at the map tells a kin observer the challenge – ney, the mess – that Israel has made of what once used to be Palestine. Essentially, Israel took a big hunk of land and poked holes in it (vis-a-vis the settlements) and now, what the Palestinians will inherit is, essentially, a Swiss cheese holes and all. Those idiots at the UN who came up with the idea of splitting Palestine and giving more than half of it to a minority of jews should have been hung by the balls for what they did. This is, bar none, the worst wrong ever done to a people in the process of righting a wrong done to another people that had nothing to do with them.
It was wrong from the start and is just as wrong now.Israel has broak more laws than any country in the last 200 years without ever being punished.The Palistinians have been treated worse than animals since 1948.Its long past the time Israel pays the piper.In my life time have never seen such an evil country although Americas government is making America get close and fast and not close to the amount needed of American civilians protestingf or doing nothing for it to be stoped.In the end people are not going to have sympathy on the American civilians.If your muslem and protest there is a good chance they will be arrested and called terrorists.Its sick and I'm a white Canadian and it bothers me night and day.
Actually East Jerusalem seems to be the area that is least talked about