Comments on: What would Israels reaction if the Palestinians built their own airport in Gaza?

By: Peter J

Peter J — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:58:39 +0000

Which Palestinians, the moderate ones who only want to destroy Israel
or the radicals who only want to destroy Israel.
I am sure an airport in any normal society that focuses on democracy, freedom and building a useful society would find an airport to be very
liberating.
Unfortunately we know without a shadow of doubt that it would only be used to further terrorist acts against Israel.
The ” Palestinians ” in their infinite wisdom and guided by their Iranian
mentors chose only hate and death ad infinitum.

By: mohd

mohd — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:48:19 +0000

I dont think that will ever happen, but if it does actually happen it would be built by the US. This would be really interesting, and I would love to see Israel’s reaction.

By: mir miron

mir miron — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:58:56 +0000

Michael, you only ask these questions in order to make political statements.

THERE IS A GAZA AIRPORT the airport opened in 1998, it even has a name Yassir Arafat International Airport.

As for the regular chat.
Israel did not blow up anything, Gaza city is huge, Hamass was hiding in parts of the city, buildings were the hid were hit.

By: Pascha

Pascha — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:26:23 +0000

The Israelis think they have the right to exercise political control over areas outside of their own country, to the detriment of the lives of millions of people.

It is time for the international community to focus on human rights in this area of the world. Whether or not people whose human rights are violated belong to a sovereign state does not make a difference in whether they have those human rights.

Keeping so many people stateless for so long is not justifiable. Either a separate Palestinian state needs to be established or the stateless people need to be incorporated into Israel with full citizenship rights. The Avigdor Lieberman idea of “transporting” the Palestinians out of the area would just be ethnic cleansing, which is unacceptable.

By: Hatem A

Hatem A — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:45:07 +0000

Actually there was an airport in Gaza that was built with European donations in 1998, but Israel destroyed it in 2001. I think the European donors should ask for compensation. There was another airport near Ramallah, but Israel had closed it since 1967.

Gaza is still officially under Israeli occupation. Israel re-deployed its army outside population centers in Gaza to keep them out of the firing range of Palestinian resistance fighters, but at the same time maintained total control of Gaza’s borders, air and sea. Israel then implemented total blockade on the Gaza Strip for the last 3 years turning it into the largest concentration camp in human history.