Technically, as a territory, Gaza's citizens would become Us Citizens.

I guess, welcome, our fellow Palestine Americans is in order.

#Gaza #Palestine #UnitedStates #Citizenship

@Linux Yeah, but they'd be like Puerto Rico and be forced into taxation without representation. For all the talk about making Canada/Greenland/Gaza/Mexico/whatever the fifty-first state, I don't see this Congress welcoming in a new overseas state full of brown people who don't speak English. #uspol

@colin

Unfortunately, true.

Still, while this move is widely surprising and unpopular, I can see this possibly working. -- Lots of pushback, but I can still see this working.

When Gaza's footprint is overlaid onto New York City, it covers an area roughly the size of Manhattan, the Bronx and Hoboken, New Jersey, combined (see photo). The population of Gaza was only 2 million before the war, and imagine it is less now.

#Gaza #Palestine #Territory #UsTerritory

@Linux @colin The US needs to stay out of stuff it has no business being in. I'm sick and tired of the president threatening of taking over sovereign nations all because he wants it at this rate it feels like he's trying to be Nazi Germany and wants to take over the world

@snow @colin

You'll get no argument out of me, as I truly agree with you.

But unlike his other land grabs, which were only "talk", this time it is real. Israel seems to be onboard and more than happy to give America, Gaza. That means, this is actually happening.

@Linux
But why do we want Gaza?
@snow @colin
@Fishtiks @Linux @snow Because Trump’s sons’ business can redevelop it into profitable gentrified housing and leave room for plenty of military bases targeting the Middle East.
@colin
I'm not for listening to the UN, but UN law has made changing borders very difficult, in spite of the UN supposedly being for self-determination, which is why I'm not for listening to the UN. Why is there no Kurdistan? What does the UN do? So, whatever makes people able to settle.
@Linux @snow
@Fishtiks @colin @Linux @snow this has nothing to do with settling and everything with decennia of repression en forcing people out. Settling means give and take from both sides. Israel only takes.
@Noctania
Hamas is more Palestinian than the Palestinian Authority, or it wouldn't have been able to take over, and the people would have elected a new leader, making it impossible for them to be abused as martyrs for money. Israel has problems, I admit, but Palestinians need decent leaders, better than the oppressive Palestinian Authority even. They need free press. They need freedom from their own government.
@colin @Linux @snow
@Fishtiks @colin @Linux @snow if it is not for us to decide for Israel how they move on in this conflict it is not for us to decide for indigenous Palestinians.
@Noctania
Everyone has been staying there their entire lives. Shut the hell up about putting one side over another right now!
@colin @Linux @snow
@Fishtiks I had Jewish acquaintances in my youth in the Netherlands who were fine here but decided to move to Israel in the 21st century. About 1 million Russian Jews emigrated to Israel after Perestrojka. There is no room for Palestinian refugees to return to Israel. How is that just?
@Noctania
Some of the Russians that moved to Israel were treated badly, and became neo-Nazis. Taxes are high, so it's not as you seem to think in Israel. Settlers are the only ones that avoid taxes much, and the government doesn't protect them while using them. Israel should also take black Jews from Ethiopia, but it has refused.
@Noctania
Israel would not support Palestinians with electricity or water, because if they did, they were funding terrorism, while they certainly don't expect it to change by cutting those off.
@Noctania
So, then, what did I do? I had some people there look into some energy research, which would have been clean and put Palestine on the map if it had worked out well. Unfortunately, it didn't, but you try. They could still fund their own electricity and filtration, if martyr funds were spent on those, but they would often lose funding from other nations.
@Noctania
It was biofuel research, which has picked up and is becoming quite impressive, but I suppose they didn't have the research team there.