GAZA STRIP
Through the events of threating out all priorities of life, I realise how minute or gigantic architecture's role could be. Taking a picture from my friend JASMINE's facebook, the architecture is pulsating and interactive.
I have to praise the picture for giving such a vivid existence of architecture. The wall, look at the crack and stains. Time, water, life, you can almost conjure myriad stories about this little staircase. A desperate daughter caged by the manipulative parents ran away with her lover in the middle of the night on his little boat. Pitch dark, only moon light reflecting from the water surface leads their way.
And it goes beyond what's physical, architecture embodies everything, borders, thresholds. To put it in political terms is to embarass Hermes the god of transition. Yet, Gaza would always be on the map, controversy.
Western society and die heart environmentalists want to believe that Palestinians are suffering because of iron wrists of the Israeli, whereas Israel sees herself as victims and inevitably gear themselves up amongst her hostile neighbour.
It traces the history of Palestine, wiki writes, 'as a geographical, apolitical term, in its broadest application, it can be used to refer to ancient Palestine, an area that includes contemporary Israel, the Israeli-occupied territories, part of Jordan, and some of both Lebanon and Syria.In classical or contemporary terms, it can also be used to refer to the area once known as British Mandate Palestine, and today known as Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.'
This is where it comes in, a brief understanding:
1. After WWII and in 1947 United Nations partition plan declared Gaza to become part of a new Palestinian Arab state.
2. In May 1948, a day after Israel declared independence, Egypt army invaded the area from the south, starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (5-day war).
3. The war dragged on. Instead, Israeli army took over more arabic land, and expelled all Palestinian-arabic refugees into Gaza Strip.
4. To end the war, in 1949, Armistice Agreements was signed between Israel and Egpty, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, and established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line. Egypt occupied the Strip from 1949 until 1967.
5. Oddly enough, Egypt never annexed the Gaza Strip, and the refugees were never offered Egyptian citizenship. Palestinians in the strip are on their own.
6. 1967 June war broke out between Israel and her arabic neighbours. Israel took over hte Strip as a war buffer.
7. In March 1979 Israel and Egypt signed the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Among other things, the treaty provided for the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War.
8. May 1994, Oslo Accords was sign in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat. Palestinian Authority was established, declaring control over the Strip, and peace of the region. Israel would aid the reconstruction of the Strip by providing aids in electricity, water, economy and military.
9. However, many Palestinians believed that the Oslo Accords had turned the PLO leadership into a tool of the Israeli state in suppressing their own people. While benefiting a small elite, the conditions of most Palestinians worsened.
10. While 70% of the fundings to the Strip through Israel and EU were wired directly into Yasser Arafat's Geneva bank account.
11. The Second Intifada broke out in September 2000, leading towards Israeli disengagement of the strip in 2005. Israel still controls the strip's airspace, territorial water and offshore maritime access, as well as its side of the Gaza-Israeli border.
12. Even after the disengagement, questions still raised whether Israel is controlling the Strip, while closing its borders and limiting Palestinians from trade, job, access to other countries.
13. Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. The region continue to refuse recognising Israel, renounce violence and agree to honour agreements previously made by the PLO, Israel, the United States, Canada, and the European Union froze all funds to the Hamas-controlled government. They view Hamas as a terrorist organization.
14. Internal disorder between Hamas and Fatah, a major Palestinian political party supported by the EU, started in Jan 2007, cuasing further damage to the region, and shape fall in GDP.
15. Israel closed its border, destricted trade with the Strip, declining jobs, leading to further deprivation.
16. Hamas has made no effort in controlling the continued firing of Qassam rockets from the Strip across the border into Israel, targeted at Israeli civilians. According to Israel, since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip until the end of January 2008, 697 rockets and 822 mortar bombs have been fired at Israeli towns.
17. In January 2008 the situation escalated and Israel curtailed travel from Gaza and entry of goods, and decided to cut fuel supplies to the Strip on January 19, resulting in power shortages.
All these go on and on every day, now. It's not easy to put a blame, but usually we'll put it on the bigger, richer one. Human instinct. Whereas Israel did seem to have HUMAN RIGHTS issues towards the Palestinians (hot now between Tibet and China), it's still hard to tell how it could have gone that wrong if the arabs weren't killing each other, maintaining their anti-Zionist hostility, allowing corrupted and extreme government to rule. I cannot take side, just like I cannot say who more diabolic, Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker?
I have to praise the picture for giving such a vivid existence of architecture. The wall, look at the crack and stains. Time, water, life, you can almost conjure myriad stories about this little staircase. A desperate daughter caged by the manipulative parents ran away with her lover in the middle of the night on his little boat. Pitch dark, only moon light reflecting from the water surface leads their way.
And it goes beyond what's physical, architecture embodies everything, borders, thresholds. To put it in political terms is to embarass Hermes the god of transition. Yet, Gaza would always be on the map, controversy.
Western society and die heart environmentalists want to believe that Palestinians are suffering because of iron wrists of the Israeli, whereas Israel sees herself as victims and inevitably gear themselves up amongst her hostile neighbour.
It traces the history of Palestine, wiki writes, 'as a geographical, apolitical term, in its broadest application, it can be used to refer to ancient Palestine, an area that includes contemporary Israel, the Israeli-occupied territories, part of Jordan, and some of both Lebanon and Syria.In classical or contemporary terms, it can also be used to refer to the area once known as British Mandate Palestine, and today known as Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.'
This is where it comes in, a brief understanding:
1. After WWII and in 1947 United Nations partition plan declared Gaza to become part of a new Palestinian Arab state.
2. In May 1948, a day after Israel declared independence, Egypt army invaded the area from the south, starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (5-day war).
3. The war dragged on. Instead, Israeli army took over more arabic land, and expelled all Palestinian-arabic refugees into Gaza Strip.
4. To end the war, in 1949, Armistice Agreements was signed between Israel and Egpty, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, and established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line. Egypt occupied the Strip from 1949 until 1967.
5. Oddly enough, Egypt never annexed the Gaza Strip, and the refugees were never offered Egyptian citizenship. Palestinians in the strip are on their own.
6. 1967 June war broke out between Israel and her arabic neighbours. Israel took over hte Strip as a war buffer.
7. In March 1979 Israel and Egypt signed the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Among other things, the treaty provided for the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War.
8. May 1994, Oslo Accords was sign in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat. Palestinian Authority was established, declaring control over the Strip, and peace of the region. Israel would aid the reconstruction of the Strip by providing aids in electricity, water, economy and military.
9. However, many Palestinians believed that the Oslo Accords had turned the PLO leadership into a tool of the Israeli state in suppressing their own people. While benefiting a small elite, the conditions of most Palestinians worsened.
10. While 70% of the fundings to the Strip through Israel and EU were wired directly into Yasser Arafat's Geneva bank account.
11. The Second Intifada broke out in September 2000, leading towards Israeli disengagement of the strip in 2005. Israel still controls the strip's airspace, territorial water and offshore maritime access, as well as its side of the Gaza-Israeli border.
12. Even after the disengagement, questions still raised whether Israel is controlling the Strip, while closing its borders and limiting Palestinians from trade, job, access to other countries.
13. Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. The region continue to refuse recognising Israel, renounce violence and agree to honour agreements previously made by the PLO, Israel, the United States, Canada, and the European Union froze all funds to the Hamas-controlled government. They view Hamas as a terrorist organization.
14. Internal disorder between Hamas and Fatah, a major Palestinian political party supported by the EU, started in Jan 2007, cuasing further damage to the region, and shape fall in GDP.
15. Israel closed its border, destricted trade with the Strip, declining jobs, leading to further deprivation.
16. Hamas has made no effort in controlling the continued firing of Qassam rockets from the Strip across the border into Israel, targeted at Israeli civilians. According to Israel, since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip until the end of January 2008, 697 rockets and 822 mortar bombs have been fired at Israeli towns.
17. In January 2008 the situation escalated and Israel curtailed travel from Gaza and entry of goods, and decided to cut fuel supplies to the Strip on January 19, resulting in power shortages.
All these go on and on every day, now. It's not easy to put a blame, but usually we'll put it on the bigger, richer one. Human instinct. Whereas Israel did seem to have HUMAN RIGHTS issues towards the Palestinians (hot now between Tibet and China), it's still hard to tell how it could have gone that wrong if the arabs weren't killing each other, maintaining their anti-Zionist hostility, allowing corrupted and extreme government to rule. I cannot take side, just like I cannot say who more diabolic, Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker?
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