I'm talking about the walls which have divided up the West Bank into a series of Warsaw Ghetto like enclaves and isolate Gaza from the rest of the world. Sure I agree some of the inmates are treated better than Jews were eventually treated in Nazi Germany.
A prison isn't defined by access to cell phones and education. Our prisons also allow education and in some cases cell phones. A prison is defined by walls and restricted movement and personal freedoms. You are confused about who are the prisoners and who are the prison guards. A clue about which side of the wall is which, is that on one side the people people have restricted rights and freedoms, while people on the other side have no such restrictions and man the guard towers and check points. When Palestinians take control of the walls, guard towers and checkpoints and restrict the freedoms and movement of Israelis, I'll complain about Israelis being interned in concentration camps.
Definitions of concentration camp
1) A place where large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.
2) A situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
3) A guarded compound for the summary confinement of political prisoners, racial or ethnic minorities, or other social outcasts, also called "internment camp".
I agree with you regarding Gilat Shalit. He is a prisoner and his treatment violates international law and fundamental human rights. His case is well known, unlike the nearly 6000 people including children, that Israel also detains without any due process for political/military reasons in violation of international law and fundamental human rights.
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees
1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while
5,935 Palestinians including 209 Child detainees (29 children under 16) are currently imprisoned by Israel for political/military reasons without any due process or being convicted of a crime... just like Gilat Shalit. (
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The Ottoman empire consisted of many provinces which later gained independence. Palestine's fate unlike the other provinces was determined by foreigners and immigrants. The Palestinian people (Jews/Muslims/Christians...) were never consulted. The immigrants and foreigners who violently seized control of this region, allowed Jewish Palestinians to remain in their homes. Most non-Jewish Palestinans were ethnic cleansed from Palestine, by a process God's chosen people describe as redeeming the land and most have become displaced non-citizens (aka nationless refugees). That redeeming process continues today and is the root cause of most of the region's problems.
The name Palestine to describe this former Ottoman province has been in use since at least @340 BC, when Aristotle wrote about Palestine in Meteorology in a reference to the Dead Sea: "Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in
Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.
The name is derived from "land of the Philistines", who lived in this region before the arrival of God's chosen people.
A "Palestinian" can mean a person who is born in the geographical area known prior to 1918 as "Palestine", or a former citizen of the British Mandate territory called Palestine, or an institution related to either of these. Using this definition, both Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews were called "Palestinians".
Before the establishment of the State of Israel, the meaning of the word "Palestinian" didn't discriminate on ethnic grounds, but rather referred to anything associated with the region. The local newspaper, founded in 1932 by Gershon Agron, was called The Palestine Post. In 1950, its name was changed to The Jerusalem Post.
In 1923, Pinhas Rutenberg founded the Palestine Electric Company, Ltd. (later to become the Israel Electric Corporation, Ltd.) There was a [Jewish] Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and in World War II, the British assembled a Jewish Brigade, to fight the Axis powers, that was known as the Palestine regiment.
Since the establishment of Israel, its citizens are called Israelis, while the term Palestinians usually refers to the Palestinian Arabs.
