Rebuilding Gaza in accordance with the US plan is facing considerable objections across diplomatic and humanitarian circles. In two years, Israeli media reported, one million Palestinians could be moved to a newly built residential area that will be controlled by the Israeli military, thus coercing Palestinians to move into military occupied territory in Gaza. 

Referring to the proposal, an unidentified Arab diplomat stated, “Palestinians may not want to live under the rule of Hamas, but the idea that they’ll be willing to move to live under Israeli occupation and be under control of the party they also see as responsible for killing 70,000 of their brethren is fantastical.”

And yet this fantastical process has been repeated since the 1947 Partition Plan. It is the differentiation between past and........

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