During the 1948 war, the Egyptians took control of Gaza.
Exactly.
Eventually, they gave it back.
No they did not. Egypt occupied it from 1948 to 1956. Israel occupied it for 4 months in 1956 then Egypt had it again, until Israel took it in 1967.
"Following the first Arab-Israeli war (1948 – 49), the territory was occupied by Egypt, and the city became that country's headquarters in Palestine. The occupied area was later reduced to an area 25 mi (40 km) long, which became known as the Gaza Strip, still under Egyptian control. In the Six-Day War (1967) it was captured by Israel. "
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"The Strip's borders were originally defined by the armistice lines between Egypt and Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which followed the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine. It was occupied by Egypt (except for four months of Israeli occupation during the Suez Crisis) until it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. "
en.wikipedia.org
"When Israel declared its independence in May 1948, the Egyptian army attacked Israel from the south in what became known as the first Arab-Israeli War. Although Israel eventually repulsed the attack, pressure from the British to reach a cease-fire agreement prevented Israel from driving Egypt's defeated forces from the region. As a result of heavy fighting, the area surrounding the town of Gaza, then under Arab occupation, was reduced to a narrow strip, referred to thereafter as the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian control, and its population increased sharply as Palestinian refugees fled the fighting in southern Israel.
Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing its new refugee population. Palestinian access to Egypt was restricted, and much of the region's largely unskilled workforce was dependent on the United Nations Relief Works Administration (UNRWA); which built and maintained the local refugee camps. Egypt did not extend citizenship to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, who were therefore without any national citizenship.
In 1956 Israel conquered the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Egypt's actions in nationalizing the Suez Canal and closing off shipping routes to Israel. But Israel relinquished the territory soon afterward under international pressure. During the next decade, Egypt used the Gaza Strip as a staging area for terrorist attacks against Israel. This contributed to the outbreak of the Six-Day War of 1967, in which Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. "
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"The West Bank was taken from Jordan (then it was called Transjordan), after it attacked Israel."
No. Transjordan was the name given to the area around the Jordan River under the British Mandate of Palestine. The land east of the river was to become Jordan and the area west of the river was to become the Palestinian Arab state under the UN Partition Plan.
"The Hashemite Emir Abdullah, elder son of Britain's wartime Arab ally Sharif Hussein of Mecca, was placed on the throne of Transjordan. Britain recognized Transjordan as a state on May 15, 1923 and gradually relinquished control, limiting its oversight to financial, military and foreign policy matters. "
en.wikipedia.org
"Trans-Jordan was one of the Arab states opposed to the second partition of Palestine and creation of Israel in May 1948. It participated in the war between the Arab states and the newly founded State of Israel. The Armistice Agreements of April 3, 1949 left Jordan in control of the West Bank and provided that the armistice demarcation lines were without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines.
In March of 1949, Trans-Jordan became Jordan, and annexed the West Bank. Only two countries, however recognized this annexation: Britain and Pakistan. It is unknown why Pakistan recognized this annexation.
In 1950, the country was renamed "the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" to include those portions of Palestine annexed by King Abdullah. While recognizing Jordanian administration over the West Bank[citation needed], the United States, other Western powers and the United Nations maintained the position that ultimate sovereignty was subject to future agreement."
en.wikipedia.org
"Emir Abdullah soon succeeded in loosening the British mandate over Transjordan with an Anglo-Transjordanian treaty. On May 15, 1923, Britain formally recognized the Emirate of Transjordan as a state under the leadership of Emir Abdullah."
kinghussein.gov.jo
"After the United Nations proposed to partition the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, Jewish and Arab, the Arabs refused to accept it and the armies of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon and Iraq, supported by others, invaded the newly established State of Israel which they intended to destroy.[1] As a result, the region was divided between Israel, Egypt and Transjordan."
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"On April 26, 1948, Transjordan's King Abdullah said:
[A]ll our efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Palestine problem have failed. The only way left for us is war. I will have the pleasure and honor to save Palestine.7
On May 4, 1948, the Arab Legion attacked Kfar Etzion. The defenders drove them back, but the Legion returned a week later."
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I think what you meant to say is you still wouldn't be training kids to blow themselves up.
Correct.
And my reply to that is you don't know what you would do under other circumstances.
Put me in those circumstances now and I know I wouldn't train kids to blow themselves up. Have me grow up in those circumstances, and I'd be a different person, so there is no way to know for sure, but I think it unlikely, and if I did do it I would be wrong to do so.
That's why they say don't judge a man until you've walked in his shoes.
So since you haven't walked in Jefferey Dalhmer's or Osama bin Laden's shoes we can't say what they did was wrong? I disagree.
I disagree with you......terrorism usually results from oppression and poverty.
Look at all the poor countries with very little terrorism. Poverty isn't a major factor (I'm not saying it isn't a factor at all, but you can't look to poverty as the main explanation. Lack of democracy has a stronger correlation, but the majority of non-democracies aren't strong sources of terrorism. You can have your own opinions, but not your own facts. |
