Reports this week, based on satellite footage and witness testimony from IDF soldiers, reveal that Israel has carved out a nearly one-mile deep “buffer zone” inside Gaza along the border with Israel. Almost all economic and residential infrastructure within this region has been demolished and Gazans living and working in the area have been forcibly relocated.
Israel’s ongoing conquest of the Gaza Strip, the expulsion of Palestinians residing there, and the re-establishment of Israeli settlements are the principal parameters defining the new map created by the blood and fire of the Second Palestine War.
Israeli policies for the future of Gaza and its 1.8 million inhabitants based upon this foundation have been most enthusiastically embraced by Israel’s resurgent rightwing.
But they also resonate with an Israeli public forced to confront the unfinished business of the century-old conflict. …..more
