Ed Krayewski on Gaza and the Horrors of Government

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Last week the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a piece about a "317,000,000-State Solution" for the Middle East, a riff based on the "two state solution" for Israel and Palestine. The proposal for co-existing, independent states of Israel and Palestine in the territory currently comprising the state of Israel, its occupied territories, and the land in Gaza and the West Bank administered by Palestinian authorities has been around for decades and in fact was part of a proposed United Nations plan for the partition of Palestine when it was a British mandate. Since then, writes Ed Krayewski, Gazans have been occupied by Egypt, Israel, and Hamas—a victimized population whenever the governments have warred.