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News Flash: Gush Katif lands to be divided among Hamas officials
Hamas announces that it will distribute land in the Gaza Strip to officials as compensation for the nearly two years in which many government employees received only partial salary payments.
Most of the land set to be handed out are in the area of Gush Katif settlements, which were evacuated by Israel in 2005 during the unilateral pullout from the Strip.
The Fatah party criticizes the move and says the decision is both dangerous and illegal, and symbolizes the Hamas government’s corruption.
This really bothers me. I was very much against Israel withdrawing from Gush Katif when it was withdrawing from the rest of Gaza. I argued we shouldn’t set a precedent of giving every inch.
When Hamas took over two years later, Israel should have gone in and taken back the land.
Its not too late to do so.
Yes, in addition to the other re acquisitions.
In the future, how far I have no idea, Israel may have an opportunity to purchase portions of Sinai from Egypt as part of security measures to finally rid the peninsula of “workplace violence”, for good.
The upheavals in the region are not only creating new security and defense paradigms and algorithms today, but are certain to change regularly for the foreseeable future. This is just one reason why Glick’s prescriptions in her relatively “old” book, which she is now attempting to revive, are outdated and absolutely obsolete.