Netanyahu says Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar has been killed

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53. I don't know if your post was meant as sarcasm. Here is some more history..

A majority of the current inhabitants of Gaza are descendants of some of the 700,000 Palestinians who were expelled or forced to flee from their homes and lands in what is now Israel - during the Nakba in 1948. They are refugees because they were never allowed to return to their homes. Those things had nothing to do with the British Mandate that I assume you are referring to. I'm not sure what you mean by the surrounding Arab states setting up Gaza. Gaza has a known history of 4,000 years, all traces of it turned to rubble now by Israel's bombardment and levelling.

Gaza was a much larger area under the 1947 UN Partition Plan than it is today - much like what happened to the West Bank.

The Partition itself was an unfair allocation of the land - giving 55% of the land to the Jewish minority comprising 1/3 of the population - most of them immigrants within the last 20 years. But by the end of Israel's War of Independence, Israel had "conquered" another 23% of land, leaving Palestinians with only 22% of the land that the British had promised them would be theirs (true to form, the British played both sides).

Both Gaza and the West Bank have shrunk for Palestinians. Israel keeps taking more of their lands through decades of land confiscation and forced dispossessions enabled by the illegal occupation. Because of the illegal settlements, Palestinians now occupy far less than 10% of their original lands. After the planned ethnic cleansing and annexation of Gaza, there will be nothing left but isolated little bantustans in the West Bank, cut off from each other and unable to form a contiguous state. But I think ethnic cleansing is coming for the Palestinians in the West Bank too.

When you take all of these facts together...I don't know, seems like land theft to me. With a big serving of ethnic cleansing to make the dream of Greater Israel a reality.