(CAMERA-UK) Adam Levick - An Economist article of April 25 stated: "The UN projects that the population of the occupied territories will more than double by 2050, to 9.5m. Half (4.7m) will live in Gaza." Yet, as they of course know, Israel withdrew every civilian and soldier from Gaza in 2005, and, since 2007, the territory has been ruled by the terror group Hamas. Israel's painful 2005 disengagement from Gaza was predicated on the premise that Israel's withdrawal from the territory would rob Palestinian extremists of their political capital and deprive them of their putative justification for engaging in terror attacks. That clearly didn't happen - as a plurality of Palestinians voted, despite Israel's withdrawal, for Hamas, the Islamist extremist party dedicated to the Jewish state's destruction. Since then, there have been multiple wars and thousands of rockets fired at Israeli cities from Gaza. The conventional wisdom that territorial concessions will deliver peace was blown to bits.
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