If you are reading this it a miracle because no one ever reads what I have written. It is raining, close our eyes and envision the World. Day by day, hour by hour minute by minute venture back through life and capture as many as possible of the moments that you have skipped over up until now. Use those every day memories of life as anchors and fill in the minutes and seconds between them with colors and sounds of a life that stretches six decades from an off-white hospital room at birth to the desert rain and thunder of this moment. Feel the sun, the touch of a hand, the water on your face for the first time, the thrill of self-propulsion, the heart break of love lost, and the heart beat of love won. The dying of each Autumn and the birth of each Spring. The heat of each Summer and the unrelenting cold of each Winter. Then hold in your minds eye the Heavens above filled with uncountable stars beyond stars stretched against a blackness so deep and wide your eyes strain to open enough to take it all in and can not. Then slowly open your eyes to the World here and now....and tell me who will you believe? Google or your Heart?
History Occupation After rule by the Ottoman Empire ended there in World War I (1914–18), the Gaza area became part of the League of Nations mandate of Palestine under British rule. Before this mandate ended, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in November 1947 accepted a plan for the Arab-Jewish partition of Palestine under which the town of Gaza and an area of surrounding territory were to be allotted to the Arabs. The British mandate ended on May 15, 1948, and on that same day the first Arab-Israeli war began. Egyptian forces soon entered the town of Gaza, which became the headquarters of the Egyptian expeditionary force in Palestine. As a result of heavy fighting in autumn 1948, the area around the town under Arab occupation was reduced to a strip of territory 25 miles (40 km) long and 4–5 miles (6–8 km) wide. This area became known as the Gaza Strip. Its boundaries were demarcated in the Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement of February 24, 1949. Are you a student?...
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