> Gaza residents have been in control of their own fate since at least 2005. I wouldn't want to litigate the Arab-Israeli conflict on a message board but this

> Gaza residents have been in control of their own fate since at least 2005. I wouldn't want to litigate the Arab-Israeli conflict on a message board but this is just such a fundamentally absurd thing to say that I thought I should respond. They have a "government" but are not citizens of an actual country and they do not have a real economy because they are under blockade. They are not in control of their own fate, except in some existentialist way that invites comparison with prison inmates or something.