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I went to Gaza twice. The first time I went, I went with a tour guide, and we visited both the settlements and the Palestinian areas. Pretty unbelievable.
I read in the paper today that Sharon’s plan for dismantling the settlements in Gaza might actually happen… What a blessing that would be. Let me fill you in on some of the facts, which I saw first hand:
1,300,000 Palestinians live in cramped conditions, with families of 20 or more members in every apartment in an area inland, dusty and crowded. 8,600 Israelis live in 1,600 homes on the sea, spaciously laid out like a subdivision.
I don’t condone the violence that has happened to the settlers in Gaza. I condemn all acts of violence as wrong. But I understand why they happened. Something like 2,000 Palestinians live in an area equivalent to what 20 settlers live in. That isn’t fair. And where did the settlers take the land from? And where did all of the Palestinian ‘residents’ come from?
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