Sorry, by your own words it is NOT occupied as the native residents have elementary civil rights. They have their own government with elections, they have their own civil administration and they have ownership of land. To be honest, there are more rights in Gaza under Israeli control than in most other Arab countries.
If the native residents would stop launching missiles into Israeli towns, stop sending suicide bombers into Israeli stores and stop teaching their children that a good Jew is a dead Jew then maybe they would have more rights. As is, the rights that they are lacking is travel and transport. They can't get into Israel without going through a security checkpoint which stops a LOT of weapons and bombers and they can't ship in stuff without it being inspected for weapons. Those are 2 rights missing where they have all others. > Occupied is the correct term for any territory where the country in charge > denies the native residents elementary civil rights, such as the right to > vote in general elections, it does grant its own citizens. And that > definition has nothing to do with ownership or whether the territory ever > was (part of) a country. That definition has to do with de facto control > and civil rights. > > Jochem > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Stay Ahead of Hackers - Download ZoneAlarm Pro http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=65 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169383 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
