• mwguy
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    11 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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        11 months ago

        The land that’s farmland was previously inhospitable.

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            11 months ago

            It’s been there’s since 1967.

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              11 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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                11 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.