Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, first proposed the annexation of the Gaza Strip in 1949.
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As before, however, any such move into the country would be fraught with the same risks that have bedeviled past Israeli invasions of Lebanon.
The destructive force that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed in Gaza is rooted in a century-old ideology that says overwhelming power is how Israel should deal with Palestinians.
A series of poor decisions in the face of Jewish manoeuvring led to the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the creation of the Israeli state.
The Lag BaOmer pilgrimage, in which 45 people died recently, takes place each year to what is believed to be the gravesite of the second-century Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
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