• ShroOmeric@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Displacement and replacement. If it doesn’t sound old school ethnic cleansing this I dont know what else…

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      8 months ago

      Well the difference is that Israel has invested in desalination at a widespread level. They’ve been able to irrigate the desert and turn inhospitable land into arable farmland with that investment.

      While 10,000 visas may seem like a lot, it actually doesn’t go all that far for the sort of crops that must be picked by hand.

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          8 months ago

          The land that’s farmland was previously inhospitable.

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              8 months ago

              It’s been there’s since 1967.

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                8 months ago

                And as we all know they haven’t moved an inch since then…even though that in itself was an illegal land grab.

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                  8 months ago

                  Since 2004 Israel has respected every inch of the 1967 borders in Gaza. The disengagement was designed to prove to the Israeli people that a pull back to the 1967 borders on their part would lead to peace.