There was no Gaza Strip
Text of the video speech by the Israeli Historian
“Ilan Pappe”
Ilan pappe#Gaza
Farah Notash: Transcription 11.04.2024
There was no Gaza strip. The strip itself, is an Israeli invention!
Gaza was a cosmopolitical town on the Via Maris, the road from Alexandria up to Alexandretta in Turkey.
Many people from different countries and cultured passed through Gaza and left an impact that turned it to one of the most cosmopolitical towns before 1948. It also had a very good system of coexistence between Moslems, Christians, and Jews.
Just recently a friend of ours found an interesting declaration in1905 by the three heads of the religions in the city of Gaza, expressing their delight in 1905, and how well are the three communities deal with issues of friction, disagreement, and conflict.
Israel created Gaza Strip because unlike other places into which it could push the many Palestinians it expelled during the Nakba, during the 1948 catastrophe. Unlike other countries such as Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, that were willing to receive the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that Israel expelled, Egypt closed its borders.
Egypt refused to accept even one Palestinian. And because of that the leader of Israel, the great architect of the ethnic cleansing of 1948, David Ben Gurion, who ashamedly has a Boulevard named after him in Paris, he is a
War criminal and he decided that Israel is willing to give 2% of historical Palestine in order to turn it to the biggest refugee camp of the world.
And that is how the Gaza strip was created by the Israelis as a kind of rectangle of a structure, a geometric kind of structure, into which Israel pushed the Palestinians from central of Palestine, and from the south, that Egypt did not, was unwilling to accept it.
The last group of the Palestinians who were pushed in to the Gaza Strip were those living in 11 villages on who’s ruins?
On the ruins of these villages Israel built the settlements that were attacked on the 7th of October by Hamas.
So, the Hamas attacked settlements built on the ruins of the last villages of Palestine that were destroyed by the Israeli Army and expelled to Gaza.
In the Israeli archive we have a very well-known document called:
Order No 40.
Order No 40 is from 25th November 1948, and it was sent by the Israeli central command to the commander of Gaza. And it has the name of the 11 villages, and the Order says, and I quote literally what the Order says.
Occupy the village,
expel all the people to Gaza.
Burn the houses and demolish the stone house.
Because some of the houses of Palestinian Villages in 1948 were built of mortar and strow, and therefore it was possible to burn them. But the stone houses had to be blown up by the Israeli army.
So, one historical context we have here, is a generation of grandfathers and
grandmothers, fathers and mothers, grandchildren, that live either directly or indirectly the Nakba of 1948 in a very vivid way on a daily basis, not only because they are thinking about Jafa, or they are thinking about Beersheba,
Or any other place from which they were expelled, but also by watching the Israeli settlement on the other side of the fence from which most od their parents and grandparents came from.
And Rania mentioned the March of Return in 2018. This was exactly one of the objectives of the March of Return, to remind the world, that the settlement on the other side of the fence, from which most of their parents and grandparents came from.
And Rania mentioned the March of Return in 2018. This was exactly one of the objectives of the March Return to remind the world, that the settlement on the other side of the fence,
the ones would be attacked on the 7th of October, where Palestinian villages destroyed through the ethnic cleansing of 1948.
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