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To: Elroy who wrote (247183)	11/2/2007 9:01:12 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"The Gaza Strip is unique amongst UNRWA's five fields of operations as the majority of its population are refugees and over half of the refugees live in eight camps. Most of the people who fled to the Gaza Strip as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were from Jaffa, towns and villages south of Jaffa, and from the Beersheva area in the Negev. In all, some 200,000 refugees came to Gaza, whose original inhabitants numbered only 80,000. Such an influx severely burdened this narrow strip of land; an area of only 360 square kilometers. Over three-quarters of the current estimated population of some 1.4 million are registered refugees, representing 22.42 per cent of all UNRWA registered Palestine refugees. The refugee camps in the Gaza Strip have one of the highest population densities in the world. For example, over 80,688 refugees live in Beach camp whose area is less than one square kilometer." jewishvirtuallibrary.org "There is one other consideration in the viability of a future Palestinian state: the Gaza Strip. Except for the rare exception of the United States and Alaska, most countries need to be contiguous in order for an outlying part to be viable. Gaza, right now, is pretty much hell. (Both Palestinian terrorists and Israel — along with Egypt, to a lesser degree, are to blame. The residents are essentially trapped, and it’s difficult to go anywhere.) Israel needs to offer the Palestinians a deal: Israel will take back the Gaza Strip in exchange for increasing the area of the West Bank (where the Palestinian state will exist) by a size matching that of Gaza. It’s an even trade. This will enable the Palestinians to have a contiguous state." samueljscott.wordpress.com Perhaps these excerpts will encourage you to study the problem and, hopefully, get you to drop your oversimplifications.