That's logical. Remove the regions only patch of religious harmony, and equality.
Unfortunately even if you wiped Israel off the map, much the way the UN has fantasized (
http://www.eyeontheun.org/view.asp?l=21&p=142#02) Gaza would still be the same pit it is today. People forget that the infrastructure they're screaming they're being deprived of didn't even exist before Israel provided them with it. Electricity grids? Running water? Not in Gaza, not before 1967.
it was Israel who re-established Jerusalem as a destination for ALL major religions, and that's a fact. You can ask the Arab shop keepers in Jerusalem just how things changed in 1967... or maybe some of the Palestinian youths who worked on the archealogical digs. Meanwhile it's the Waqf who continues to chisel away at the Temple Mount, and it's the Arab's who preach about destroying religious sites. They've managed to run the Christians out in every village they control, and true to their word, they've desecrated many of the religious sites once they've gained control. In 2000 Joseph's Tomb was burned, and converted into a Mosque. Another Ancient synagogue in Jericho was burned down the same week. The Church of Nativity was sieged by Fatah gunmen in 2002. Rachel's tomb is under continous gunfire attack. The Waqf intentionally removed 13,000 tons of archealogical rubble to dig a tunnel for their new underground mosques. So now the Southern wall is near collapse, and the Waqf continue to systematically erase any trace of ancient Hebrew, Canaanite or Christian artifacts.
Who gave the Waqf control over their portion of the Temple Mount? The Knesset issued a law(
http://www.templeinstitute.org/holy_places_law.htm ) safeguarding the holy places from desecration, and it was the first time in generations that Jews could pray on the site.Bethlehem was well on it's way towards becoming the first stop of a Holy Land amusement park complete with North Star laser light shows....then the Christian populations in Palestinian territories dwindled to less then 2%. What little of a new wave of emigration for Christians there's been can be credited to Israel's influx of Russians and some weird denominations from the US. In 1948 there was 1 mosque in Bethlehem, and now there are 90. Wherever there was a Christian stronghold, there is now a big mosque. Didn't Muslims get as far as laying foundation for the largest mosque in the world that would intentionally compete with the Basilica?
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