Gaza Myths and Facts: What American Jewish Leaders Won't Tell You

Myth: Gaza is free. Fact: it has been under Israeli occupation since 1967 to this very day.

Peter Beinart
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If you’ve been anywhere near the American Jewish community over the past few weeks, you’ve heard the following morality tale: Israel left the Gaza Strip in 2005, hoping the newly independent country would become the Singapore of the Middle East. Instead, Hamas seized power, ransacked greenhouses, threw its opponents off rooftops and began launching thousands of rockets at Israel.

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