Comment by cglan
2 years ago
You're once again taking a western/American view. Israeli jews largely look exactly the same as the Palestinians in gaza because guess what? Many come genetically from the same place. Gaza
Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is tiny. It's small sure, but there are many other countries that have and do make do with it.
Beyond that, "ancestral homeland" is stupid. Jordan is their ancestral homeland and the Jordinians keep them in camps as second class citizens. The impoverished city thing is self inflicted too. They receive bilions in aid.
The real issue is that the Palestinians cause has been hijacked by Iran and other governments that hate israel in order to engage a proxy war. Other than that, other muslim countries want nothing to do with the Palestinians
> Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is tiny. It's small sure, but there are many other countries that have and do make do with it.
This argument carries no weight.
Countries smaller than Gaza, and their populations:
1. Vatican City (0.19mi^2): 764 (4,038/sq. mi.)
2. Monaco (0.78mi^2): 39,050 (48,624/sq. mi.)
3. Nauru (8.1mi^2): 10,834 (1,243.2)
4. Tuvalu (10mi^2): 11,900 (1,232.5)
5. San Marino (24mi^2): 33,660 (1,346)
6. Liechtenstein (62mi^2): 39,584 (613.8)
7. Marshall Islands (70mi^2): 42,418 (603)
8. Saint Kitts and Nevis (101mi^2): 47,606 (424.8)
9. Maldives (120mi^2): 590,297 (5,130.4)
10. Malta (122mi^2): 519,562 (4,270.9)
11. Grenada (133mi^2): 124,610 (825.1)
Gaza: 2,375,000 @ 16,853/sq. mi.
Most of those countries with three exceptions have less than one per cent of the population of Gaza (even the biggest exception is at less than 24%). With the exception of Monaco, the population density of these countries is approximately seven per cent of Gaza.
The only countries in the world that are more dense than Gaza are Macau, Monaco and Singapore and no-one with a straight face could credibly claim that they are remotely comparable.
The commentary of "they should be able to make do just fine" is insulting to the extreme.
> Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is tiny. It's small sure, but there are many other countries that have and do make do with it.
Many? Here’s a full list of independent states that are not larger in land area than that:
Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, Maldives, Malta, and Grenada
Some of those are contrived. Which of those are claimed as the exclusive ancestral homelands of ethnic groups?
> Lets also not pretend that 141sq miles is tiny. It's small sure, but there are many other countries that have and do make do with it.
There's nothing about contrivance. The initial claim was that Gazans should be happy in a country of 141 sq miles, with 2.4 million people, making it one of the densest populations on earth...
... while the Israel government routinely turns off electricity to the entire country for days at a time, and at times the fresh water. The miracle there is that there aren't epidemics just ravaging the population.