The Realities and Timeline of Gaza and the West Bank History Few Seem To Realize Or Ignore; Wacky Qaddafi Knew

I remember sometime ago having a back-and-forth, relatively tame argument with a Spanish pro-Palestine activist on LinkedIn, and during our very public discussion, where it became glaringly clear that she knew nothing about the history of the Middle East, the history of Israel (ancient Israel to its modern reestablishment) and most of all, she knew zilch about the history of Gaza and the West Bank. She was a classic example of someone who was more interested in virtue signalling, having a pet cause to be part of, and attention-seeking.

She kept on about Israel’s “80-year occupation”, and applied this specifically to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. I found her benightedness amusing.

I asked her who occupied those enclaves before 1967. She didn’t know. I pointed out to her that Israel first occupied Gaza and the West Bank in 1967 after the Six-Day War (June 5–10), not before that, therefore it has not been 80 years.

I had to explain to her that Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied the West Bank, and that neither Arab nation made any efforts to create an independent Palestinian state, and that both Egypt and Jordan ruled those enclaves far more brutally than she probably imagines.

King Hussein of Jordan officially severed ties with the West Bank in 1988— and I remember when this happened.

Of course, many of those Western leftist pro-Pali activists will claim 80 years of occupation while hiding that they are actually referring to all of Israeli land as it is today, not just the enclaves. Other Western leftist activists openly admit the goal is Israel’s destruction.

Besides, Gaza in particular has been under no occupation since 2005, when Israel completely withdrew and pulled out the Gaza Jewish communities.

In fact, Gaza has been self-ruled under a Hamas Islamofascist government, governing unilaterally and separately from the recognized PLO‘s Palestinian Authority (PA) government based in the West Bank since 2007; this happened after the Battle of Gaza (7–15 June 2007).

The Battle of Gaza was the final battle between Fatah (the PLO’s military wing) and Hamas as to who would end up in control of the enclave after two years of tensions and brutal violence, following Hamas’s winning the 2005 local elections. (After the battle, Hamas did a clean up; Fatah supporters, i.e. fellow Palestinians, were tortured, imprisoned, executed, thrown off buildings, etc.)

There are reasons that the President of the PA (and the PLO), Mahmoud Abbas, has cancelled elections since 2005.

Meanwhile, in the clip below, see former Libyan leader Wacky Qaddafi at the Arab League (2008[?]) calling out the history of the Arab world and what it did and didn’t do regarding the Palestinians, Gaza and the West Bank.

He specifically points out that while Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied the West Bank, they never gave the Palestinians a state. Qaddafi goes on to raise some other of his typical Qaddafi perspectives and points of view regarding the Arab world, Israel and those two enclaves.

See: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DaK6AlDAjOU/ :

‘A vintage clip of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addressing the Arab League has resurfaced, showing him dismantling the post-1967 narrative with pointed questions that have reignited debate across social media.

“What happened to the Palestinian cause we had before 1967? Were we lying to ourselves?” Gaddafi asks Arab leaders in the footage. “The Jews left you the West Bank and Gaza for 19 years, so why didn’t you create a Palestinian state then? Now you demand Israel return to the pre-1967 borders?”

In the address, Gaddafi mocks the Arab world’s sudden fixation on the 1967 lines, pointing out that Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt held Gaza from 1948 until the Six-Day War — yet neither established a Palestinian state during that period. He jokingly suggests suing Arab nations for damages caused to Palestinians under their own rule, challenging the hypocrisy of blaming Israel alone.‘ — thenovatimes

–RdM