After Israel began settling Gaza in 1970, it built a resort in Gaza called the Palm Beach Hotel in 1986 and banned the Palestinians from the area including the beach and ocean.
The Zionists always use the same cover story to hide their true intent, and their fascism and colonialism, especially the settlers, who’ve been listed as violent extremists (terrorists) by Canada.
Settlers turn hotel into Gaza fortress
Israeli extremists dig in for last stand against expulsion by Sharon
Conal Urquhart in Gush Katif
Sun 5 Jun 2005 01.41 BST
RIght-wing Israeli extremists are turning a Gaza hotel into a fortress to resist the Israeli army’s attempts to expel them forcibly in August when Gaza is cleared of its Jewish settlers. Among them are supporters of Baruch Goldstein, a settler who shot dead 28 Palestinians as they prayed in 1994.
The activists, who have come from Hebron and Gush Etzion in the West Bank and Jerusalem, have taken over the deserted Palm Beach hotel and are stockpiling food. They say 15 families have moved in as they carry out renovations and they expect a hundred more to arrive by 15 August, when Israeli forces are set to begin their withdrawal.
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Many see the fight to thwart Sharon in apocalyptic terms. Shalom Woollens, 44, who arrived in Israel five years ago from New York, said the Gaza settlements are the Jewish line in the sand. ‘This is the fulcrum of the battle on terror. I am putting my life on the line for this.’
Matar added: ‘This is not just a fight for these settlements. It’s a fight for Western civilisation. If we lose here, Arab terrorists will see that their violence is rewarded.’
The hotel was built in Gush Katif in the Eighties on a beautiful beach closed to the Palestinians. Since the beginning of the intifada in 2000, it has had no customers and was closed down.