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size of gaza

solidarity | 08.01.2009 12:52 | South Coast

thought i'd send this to a few people and it might be useful for someone. i was wondering how big the gaza strip was. turns out its about as long as from seaford to worthing but with about 3 times the population. not far off the area covered by a supersaver bus ticket... just helped me get it into perspective a little bit...

brighton-gaza

solidarity

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This is historical Gaza.

08.01.2009 13:42

Map of Gaza

Your quite right, 1.5Million crammed into a space that you could drive across in half an hour. And yet who has all the de-salinated water, formal agriculture and infrastructure that goes along with it. Not the Gazans.

Gaza is that chaotic bit in the left. The neatly farmed fields on the right are Israel.

Position of Gaza.

Here's the Israeli map of the area, no Palestine here ..

08.01.2009 15:45

It's pretty obvious that the Israeli plans of ethnic cleansing are coming towards the end game.
They set up Hamas as part of their divide and rule strategy which has conveniently divided Gaza from the West Bank. Once they have dealt with Gaza they will invent an excuse to obliterate the West Bank.
It's not about Hamas and their fireworks it's about driving the Palestinians into the sea and let's face it what is going to stop them achieving this. The worlds corporate media is an accomplice and if they can get away with massacring the Palestinians as they have been doing for the last 10 days lets face it the sonner the Palestinians get out of the hell whole that they are living in the better for them. Don't ask me where they should go but go they certainly will. Here's the Israeli map of the area ...

from

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/Israel%20in%20Maps/Israel%20within%20Boundaries%20and%20Ceasefire%20Lines%20-%20200

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Interesting...

08.01.2009 21:37

Do Brighton fire rockets in the ripe area of Burgess Hill?

loppy

Emotional map

09.01.2009 00:36

A thin line between love and hate

Critter

No.

09.01.2009 09:14

"Do Brighton fire rockets in the ripe area of Burgess Hill? "

If they did would that give the ripe area of Burgess Hill the right to send the RAF in to bomb Brighton, and then send the army in on a land invasion?

What the maps show is the disparity between one side and the other along the lines of recources and there equitable distribution. As a previous poster says, the rocket attacks are just an episodal enactment of a conflict that has gone on for a long time. Until there is an adaquate addressing of this problem this conflict will just continue to be presented in such a way that you are either for or againstr one side or the other.

A fact much exploited by both sides.

The justification for the actions of the Israeli's is, and can plainly be seen, to be dispraportionate.

Interesting to note that Lebanon's firing of rockets into Israel yesterday was dismissed out of hand by the Israeli's. If only they had thought to do that with Hamas. Hamas would still be firing their rockets, but those rocket attacks would dwindle in proportion to Hamas maturing its understanding of self-interest which as we all know, goes hand-in hand with democracy.

Snuff democracy out and what are you left with?

Interesting?

Let's keep Burgess Hill out of this, shall we?

09.01.2009 16:15

I'm from Burgess Hill, and although I'm not massively proud of the place I resent it being associated in any way with crazy Zionists.

Crawley, on the other hand...

Bloke from Burgess Hill

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