Moderator note, as per previous post this is reply from jeremy p to the previous post originally on SfG
That's a gross distortion of the Palestinian situation.
JeremyP
Rather than assert it's a gross distortion the same way you previously asserted that Hamas was beheading Israeli babies, which turned out to be a lie propagated by Israeli first responders, presumably you have some links to post as to why you think it is a gross distortion? Apologists for Israel routinely make false statements hoping that pro-Western, anti-Arab bias means they will be automatically believed without scrutiny.
For one thing, Israel can't turn Gaza into an "open air prison" by itself. Gaza has a border with Egypt and a coastline.
Anyway, that's all off topic for this thread, so I'll say no more.
Egypt doesn't want Israel to succeed in its ethnic cleansing by permanently expelling thousands of Palestinians as refugees into Egypt. Nor does it want Palestinian militants walking in as that endangers its peace treaty with Israel and could cause political disruption in Egypt.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-egypt-and-other-arab-nations-are-hesitant-to-take-in-palestinian-refugeesWhat's your point?
In 2004, a year before Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Dov Weissglass, an aide to Ariel Sharon, explained the initiative’s purpose to an interviewer from Haaretz:
The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process ... And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda."
Since Israel's "withdrawal" Israel maintains sole control of Gaza’s airspace and territorial waters and does not allow any movement of people or goods in or out of Gaza via air or sea.
Since 2007, all exports were banned, and just 131 truckloads of foodstuffs and other essential products were permitted entry per day. Israel also strictly controlled which products could and could not be imported. Prohibited items have included A4 paper, chocolate, coriander, crayons, jam, pasta, shampoo, shoes and wheelchairs.
Israel controlled no-go zones within the Gaza strip and even the population registry, meaning Israel gets to determine who is a Palestinian and who isn’t inside the Gaza strip. Israel also continues to control electricity, water and telecommunications in Gaza. It has regularly conducted raids in Gaza, often arresting “wanted” men; and carrying out so-called “targeted killings”, in air strikes which have claimed a high toll on civilians.
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/the-gaza-strip-is-no-longer-occupied/I could go on describing the daily discrimination, indignities and humiliations since 1948 - Israel's bulldozing of Palestinian homes, annexation of privately-owned land, destruction of private property, restriction of water, its pollution or razing of Palestinian orchards, enabling settler violence, lack of access for young and old to medical care and education, poverty, mass unemployment, generations trapped with no future and nowhere to go - but you already know all this and clearly you don't see it as wrong.
