I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? Far from it! But by their wrongdoing salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
Romans 11:11
Message: Chosen People Ministries
Gaza
Philistia- Goliath-Gaza
Gaza- UN Resolution 181
1967 Israel Recaptured Gaza Strip- The Six-Day War
Obama After Getting Osama, Gave A Speech and stated Israel needs to go back to the 1967 Borders.
Gaza
2 Palestinian Intifada in Gaza- Uprising prior to disengagement. The first Intifada or Palestinian uprisings were marked with violent protests, riots, suicide bombings and terror strikes.
The second Intifada, which began in 2000, was marked by intense violent protests, suicide bombings, riots and attacks.
Then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon argued that defending a population of approximately 9,000 settlers came at a high cost. Clashes in Gaza between the Israeli forces and Hamas and even Yasser Arafat’s PLO made the future of the peace process with Palestinians look bleak and the defence of Jews in the area was turning into a costly affair for Israel.
Sharron said it was too expensive to protect the 9000 Jews in Gaza- a small population of Jews among the Majority of Palestinians.
The unilateral disengagement process began in August of 2005 and by September, around 9,000 Jews living in 25 settlements were evicted and the Israeli troops completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip to the Green Line — a 1949 Armistice Line drawing boundaries between Israel and its Arab neighbours. These settlements had stood for decades until 2005 and their removal involved bulldozing, forceful eviction by Israeli troops. Although the settlers received compensation from the Israeli government for rehabilitation, the process was protracted and tedious.
Orange Ribbons Against- Israeli
Blue Ribbons Support-Israeli
A so-called Step Forward to the peace process.
Israel still has control over the airspace and maritime boundaries of the Gaza Strip and supplies electricity, and water to the region.
Hamas built an underground city.
Hamas- Muslim Brotherhood- Established In Cairo Egypt- Terrorists
In 2006, Hamas won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council election, marking a dramatic shift in Palestinian politics and the emergence of the group as an alternative to Fatah, a group that now governs in the West Bank.
Hamas failed to maintain a unity government with Fatah, which resulted in violent clashes or referred to by some experts as a brief civil war in Gaza. Palestinians v Palestinians
The Battle of Gaza was a military conflict between Fatah and Hamas that took place in the Gaza Strip from 10 to 15 June 2007. It was a prominent event in the Fatah–Hamas conflict, centered on the struggle for power after Fatah lost the 2006 Palestinian legislative election.
Fatah Means- Conquest
Founded in 1950 in Kuwait
Fatah was founded by several people, most notably the late president of the Palestinian Authority – Yasser Arafat, aides Khalil al-Wazir and Salah Khalaf, and Mahmoud Abbas, who is the current president of the Palestinian Authority.
Yasser Arafat after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Fatah became the dominant party in the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for building a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders (West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza), alongside an Israeli state.
Hamas Means- is an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Resistance Movement. The word Hamas means zeal.
The Hamas movement was founded in Gaza in 1987 by imam Sheikh Ahmed Yasin and aide Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi shortly after the start of the first Intifada.
The movement started as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and created a military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, to pursue an armed struggle against Israel with the aim of liberating historic Palestine. It also provided social welfare programmes to Palestinian victims of the Israeli occupation.
The movement believes that the “establishment of ‘Israel’ is entirely illegal”. This sets it apart from the PLO, of which it is not a member.
