As in the present assault on Gaza, the then Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Hamas had turned UN facilities into “terrorist hotspots.”

With the creation of Israel, Palestine ceased to exist. To this day Israel refuses to recognize the existence of the Palestinians as a nation entitled to exercise self-determination.

the Israeli army, according to the Israeli magazine +972, is “once again marketing itself as a high-tech superpower, talking up the automated weaponry and supercomputer surveillance tech being ‘battle-tested’ in its war on Gaza.”[12]

Israel sees UNRWA as perpetuating the refugees’ insistence on their right of return. It believes that if it succeeds in dissolving the organization the refugee problem will be forgotten. But this is an illusion. There will be no lasting peace without resolving the refugee issue.

I would suggest that the real reason why it makes this claim is that Israel was anxious to position itself within the group of decolonized nations.

This will require months of combat, during which the Strip will be cleansed, neighborhood by neighborhood, of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives and armaments. It will exact a serious price in lives from both Israel Defense Forces soldiers and Palestinian civilians. But that’s the price required of a nation like ours, which wants to live on its own

“The extensive Hamas rocket fire from Gaza over the past month has made it difficult to justify withdrawing from the West Bank as part of a future peace deal with the Palestinians.”

The new country proceeded without delay to reinvent history in such a way as to exclude any recognition of the presence of the original non-Jewish inhabitants, not only forcing most of them out but also removing any sign of their former presence and history in the land. In support of this, Israel treated the Bible as a historical document and used

The towns and villages from which the Palestinians were forced out were quickly demolished and a worldwide campaign was waged to seek contributions for planting trees in the forests that were established where these villages had once stood, in order to completely conceal their prior existence. In some cases new Israeli towns and kibbutzim were