Looking back, should the Israelis have given Gaza back to the Palestinians?

[zork]

Israel retreated from Gaza in the 2003-2005 time frame, land that was acquired back in the late sixties war. It was a grand gesture in the ill fated land for peace gambit.

http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...d-israel-give-up-territory-after-gaza/244995/

In retrospect, should Israel have given the Gaza territory back?

interesting pro/con summary:
https://peacenow.org/page.php?name=tsws-the-gaza-experience-proves-that-land-for-peace-doesnt-work

history:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/w...l-lowers-its-flag-in-the-gaza-strip.html?_r=0

recent commentary:
http://www.juancole.com/2015/07/amira-blunt-concentration.html

 

[Horns11]

If Israel really wanted peace, they'd follow the pre-1967 boundaries like they promised they would to every international body at the time. I know pro-Israel people will say "it's not that easy," and while that's true, sometimes the simplest path is the one that's the most difficult to wrap your brain around.

I consider it kind of a hard-core level of illegal immigration. If Mexicans started to create well-funded towns and cities in South Texas with weapons they bought from the Russians and Mexican politicians arguing that it was their birthright to do so because of heritage reasons, I'd like to think that Americans would freak out.

 

[zork]

2002-2003 was when Saddam was paying suicide bombers. It was hell in Israel with the random bombings. Then they decided over the coming years after the Allied invasion of Iraq to do the grand gesture of returning Gaza to the Palestinians and they built a wall.

Then the Palestinians voted for HAMAS as their leadership. From that point on, to me, the signal from the Palestinians was clear that the grand gesture was only seen as weakness to press. The Palestinians made their own bed and now the don't get to work in Israel.

 

[Horn6721]

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I ask this because I do not know. You posted, "If Israel really wanted peace, they'd follow the pre-1967 boundaries like they promised they would to every international body at the time"
Did Israel really promise this ? When? Do you have a source?

 

[huisache]

as for the OP, likely not. The larger question, since we are backtracking, is whether Israel should have been founded to begin with. It is not as if a lot of people weren't warning about what this act of beehive kicking was likely to stir up. Start with George Marshall.