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People *do* realize that, prior to 1967, the Gaza Strip was part of Egypt, right?

*sigh*

And whose was it before Egypt. ;-)

Unlike a good chunk of the region, Egypt's been Egypt in one form or another for ages.

Yes, but IIRC, that particular bit became part of Egypt rather more recently than most of the country.

Sort of but I'm pretty sure that the only really constant part of Egypt was right along the Nile so something as far flung as the Gaza Strip would have had to been fairly recent.

??-1917: Ottoman Empire
1917-22: Occupied by the British
1922-48: British Mandate
1948-9: originally slated as a chunk of the Arab successor state which never existed; left to Egypt at the end of the first Arab-Israeli war

(Thanks, Wikipedia!)

1600s for the Ottoman Empire IIRC, but yeah, I just wasn't up to searching for it, thanks.

If you go back far enough, it was part of Canaan, and who knows what before that.

Where 'left to Egypt' means conquered and occupied by Egypt. Just as the West bank was conquered and occupied by Jordan before the Israelis conquered and occupied it in 1967.

Kol Tuv

Larry

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