The Guardian has published a new map of the #Gaza yellow line. You can see that #Israel has now seized more than half of the entire strip. But this is also the very substantial majority of all Gaza's agricultural land.
This means that even if peace is restored, Gaza cannot feed itself unless Israel withdraws.
This is, in effect, a giant #ConcentrationCamp.
@simon_brooke
Something that has not happened, even with all the power settlers have on the Israeli government, is any sort of settlement in the Gaza Strip. It seems that this is pressure from the US government that is actually working.
Under the right conditions, Israel will pull out of the Strip. One major condition is a reliable roadmap for ending the rule of Hamas in the Strip.
@tzafrir the reliable road map for ending #Hamas rule in #Gaza is the establishment of reliable, durable peace. No one would support a gangster regime if it were not the only thing protecting them from a ruthless, barbarous and untrustworthy enemy.
What's the roadmap for getting #Likud and the settler parties out of #Israel?
@simon_brooke
Right. But how do we get there if both Hamas and the Israeli government prefer the status quo?
There are elections on September of October this year. Hopefully we'll have a new government by the end of the year.
It's still not clear what would be the agenda of that government regarding the Palestinian issue: most of its parties ignore that issue in their platform. I hope, though, that it will be a more pragmatic government that will not be able to ignore the issue.
@cford @tzafrir @simon_brooke I take that under strongest advisement.
Israel and Palestine alike deserve better than this.
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