My friends and followers: Rowdy Rant will now give an 11 part explanation of why there is so much conflict over a small piece of land called the Gaza Strip. (Feel free to share or comment. 10 parts will actually be continued in comment sections....) John Earl Boyd Mickey Banks Mark Howard John Crary Alexis Hyde Misti Holland Stacey Pirtle Charlotte Berryman Kenneth Lowe Joyce Passmore Israel and Hamas are at war in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel, Israel has been launching airstrikes against Hamas, and, on Thursday, Israel announced it will launch a ground invasion. The violence is dominating headlines internationally. But theres a ton of backstory thats necessary to understand whats happening, both in the day-to-day conflict and the bigger picture. What is Hamas, really, and what does it want? What is Gaza, and does Israel control it? In order to give you a better sense of whats actually happening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, here are 11 basic but critical facts you need to know to understand whats going on in Gaza today. 1) The Gaza Strip used to be part of Egypt, and is totally separate from the West Bank As you can see on a map, Gaza is separate from the other major Palestinian population center — east of Israel, the West Bank. So despite both territories being largely populated by Palestinians, theyre basically separate geographic entities. Before Israel occupied Gaza, it was controlled for some years by Egypt, which borders Gaza on the west. Israel took it from Egypt during the 1967 war between the two countries, and until 2005 it occupied the Gaza Strip in the same way that it has occupied the West Bank through today.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:27:05 +0000
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