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From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: Final Solution for Gaza ?
Message-ID: <1993Apr26.180040.19076@das.harvard.edu>
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 18:00:40 GMT
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In article <1483500354@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:

	Other people have commented on most of this swill, I figured
I'd add a few comments of my own.

>The Gaza strip, this tiny area of land with the highest population
>density in the world, has been cut off from the world for weeks.

	Hong Kong, and Cairo both have higher population densities.

>The Israeli occupier has decided to punish the whole population of
>Gaza, some 700.000 people, by denying them the right to leave the
>strip and seek work in Israel.

	There is no fundamental right to work in another country.  And
the closing of the strip is not a punishment, it is a security measure
to stop people from stabbing Israelis.


>The only help given to Gazans by Israeli
>Jews, only dozens of people, is humanitarian assistance.

	Dozens minus one, since one of them was stabbed to death a few
days ago.

	Adam

Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu

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