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 State of Palestine Area
• Total
    6,020[9] km2 (2,320 sq mi)
• West Bank
    5,655 km2
• Gaza Strip
    365 km2
Population
• 2023 estimate 5,483,450

Gaza Strip/Area
Area: 141 sq mi (365 sq km). Population: (2024 est.) 2,229,000.
about 14,000 people per square mile (5,500 per square kilometer).

Israel Area
Area: 22,072 or 20,770 km2 (8,522 or 8,019 sq mi)
Population: 2024 estimate 9,900,000
The population density in Israel is 434 per Km2 (1,123 people per mi2).
It is unclear whats is and is not included in the above figures as per area and population.

As per Wikipedia
The sovereign territory of Israel excluding all territories captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War is approximately 20,770 square kilometers (8,019 sq mi). The total area under Israeli law, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, is 22,072 square kilometers (8,522 sq mi). The total area under Israeli control, including the military-controlled and partially Palestinian-governed territory of the West Bank, is 27,799 square kilometers (10,733 sq mi).

The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when 200,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes, settling in the Gaza Strip as refugees. Since then, Israel has been involved in about 15 wars involving organizations in the Gaza Strip. The number of Gazans reportedly killed in the ongoing 2023–2024 war (37,000) is higher than the death toll of all other wars of the Arab–Israeli conflict.

As of 23 September 2024, over 43,000 people (41,431 Palestinian and 1,706 Israeli) have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 116-134 journalists and media workers according to various sources including over 224 humanitarian aid workers.

Whats wrong with this picture, I wont get into the current escalation …...just asking!

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Political Lies and Fantasies

Trump is selling his followers a fantasy in which the only truth is what Trump says is the truth.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a theory about this blizzard of lies. The Trump show, Sanders suggests, has shifted from mocking liberals and getting laughs with belittling nicknames for GOP rivals. The new Trump show features a magical guarantee of a Trump victory in November.  And Trump is warning his followers to ignore anyone who says he is losing.

“Clearly, and dangerously, what Trump is doing is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses,” Sanders explains.

“If you can convince your supporters that thousands of people who attended a televised rally do not exist, it will not be hard to convince them that the election returns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere are ‘fake’ and ‘fraudulent'............

I recently celebrated my 70th birthday with my family on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. If in this column, I declared that tens of thousands of people were at my birthday party and that rainbow-colored dolphins joined the festivities, my editor would no longer let me write this column.

Why is a 78-year-old presidential candidate held to a different and lower standard than a 70-year-old ink-stained newspaperman?

Juan Williams is an author and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4831657-trump-lies-dangerous-political-show/

Beware of this affliction spreading north of the border, it appears to be spreading rapidly in certain political circles both here on Ontario and across Canada.

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Israel V Palestine

The conflict between these two peoples has been going on for decades and I will not pretend to understand the history of how they reached the point where so many of a civilian population came to be slaughtered or displaced with so little accountability. I will just say that it is a sickness that seems to be spreading across the globe and I fear for the future of mankind not just where conflict is now ongoing but world wide in general. Read on and if you are not bothered you are not listening!

Israel declared war after Hamas gunmen stormed across the border on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostages. More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war to destroy Hamas and more than 53,000 have been wounded, according to health officials in Gaza, a besieged territory ruled by the Islamic militant group for the past 16 years. ….............

Israel's offensive has been one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history, displacing nearly 85% of Gaza's 2.3 million people and leveling wide swaths of the tiny coastal enclave. More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report this week from the United Nations and other agencies. ….......

Israel says it has killed thousands of Hamas militants, including about 2,000 in the past three weeks, but has not presented evidence. It says 139 of its soldiers have been killed in the ground offensive.....................

From https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-airstrikes-southern-offensive/

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people[a] in whole or in part.

In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

War is an intense armed conflict[a] between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War

You decide, I know where I stand!

Merry bloody Christmas........

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