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> Their whole strategy since 1948 has been about distracting the Palestinians with fake peace processes that were never meant to lead to anything

Totally untrue. Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005 [1]. The current divides aren't as entrenched as the belligerents would have us believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the...



From the Wikipedia article you linked:

> Bernard Avishai states that the Gaza withdrawal was designed to obviate rather than facilitate peace negotiations [...]

> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weissglass, explained the meaning of Sharon's statement further: 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 [...]

> Shimon Peres, then Vice Prime Minister, stated in an interview that: "We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography"


The first two are suppositions. The last...I don't know what to make of it. Isn't the whole point of delineating Israel and Palestine demography?




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