Thursday, January 27, 2005

And Why Not?

Back on 7 January, a BBC story I read reported that: "Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and sees it as its exclusive domain...The area is often called Arab East Jerusalem because the majority of its inhabitants are Palestinian."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4153465.stmMay

Given this premise, I ask would, then, would the BBC refer to the Gush Katif area, which is a larger area than East Jerusalem, built on lands that were uninhabited for centuries, as "Israeli" or maybe even "Jewish" because the majority of its inhabitants are Jewish Israelis? And why not?

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