On a historical point of order I will point out that although Israel was not the original inhabitants of the Gaza strip, neither were the Palestinians. The original inhabitants of the Gaza strip were the Philistines. Remember the story of David and Goliath? Goliath was a giant fighting for the Philistines and David knocked him out with a slingshot and cut his head off with his own sword.
It is interesting but strange to note that the name Palestine is derived from the term Philistine. The Philistines were not Jewish or Muslim, they were uncircumcised and they were not religious. I’m not sure why Arab Muslims would want to name themselves after uncircumcised unbelievers.
Circumcision was a token of the covenant Abraham made with God and Muslims do practice that law. Surely there is an Arabic word for covenant that would better portray the fact that Muslims seek to follow God and be an example for the world to follow. Somehow the world just doesn’t see terrorism as godly.
Not to say that Israel has fulfilled her destiny of being an example to the world either. My point is that although Arabs have a right to live in Gaza, Arabs were not in Gaza before the Jews. Historically the Jews were in Judea before the Arabs and do have a valid claim on that land. Therefor Hamas’ campaign to drive Israel out of Judea is wrong.
Interesting to note that although the Philistines inhabited the five main cities in Gaza, the land was at the time owned by Egypt. Instead of having Gaza form an independent country, perhaps the land should be given to Egypt and the Palestinians could continue to live there as guests or immigrants. Just a thought.
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