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When Gibraltar was to be swapped for Spanish Ceuta
Just under 100 years ago and as the world was still embroiled in the horrors of WWI, Great Britain was considering a deal with Spain and France that would allow it to swap Gibraltar for Ceuta (Spanish territory in the north of Africa). Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesgive back Gibraltar to Spain!!!!
Feb 02nd, 2010 - 04:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Give Ceuta, Melilla and all the other plazas de soberania back to Morocco!
Feb 02nd, 2010 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0roberts is right and fortunately he is starting to understand!!
Feb 02nd, 2010 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0give back ceuta & melilla to morocco!!
gibraltar to spain!!
malvinas to argentina!!
What you just don't get is handing Gibraltar “back” to Spain, or Ceuta “back” to Morocco or the Falkland Islands “back” to Argentina (who never had them in the first place) and ignoring the people who live there, is treating them just like they were cattle to be bought and sold, and it is that which is wrong.
Feb 02nd, 2010 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UK ignored and attack the argentine people living in malvinas in 1833; Uk has a record in her history of treating people like cattle to be bought and sold; not argentina.
Feb 02nd, 2010 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Justin, are you the POV-pusher who owns Gibraltar's article in wikipedia? You really are obsessed, aren't you, bloke?
Feb 05th, 2010 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If Argentina has never had the Falklands, then Morocco never had Ceuta. Gibraltar, on the other hand... Is a colony, you know.
Fair enough Sñr Kuntz, poor choice of words on my part. I was just trying to illustrate how absurd and unworkable the “give it back” argument is. Where would it end? Should Spain be given “back” to the Italians because Spain used to be ruled out of Rome?
Feb 05th, 2010 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually Lola, Britain did not attack those living on the Falklands in 1833 and nor did they ignore them. Please read up a bit more about the subject and get your facts right.
And Lola, since you so confidently state that Argentina has no record of treating people like cattle - may I draw your attention to the Conquest of the Desert, where Argentina treated people WORSE than cattle, can I also remind you of all those people who were rounded and “disappeared”. Even cattle do not get pushed out of the back of aircraft alive...
Its very easy to shout 'Give it back'<br />
Feb 07th, 2010 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0<br />
But what is Gibraltar? Its the home of the Gibraltarian people who have been here for over 300 years, longer than the last Spanish settlers. We have built roads and houses - the old ones were knocked down by foreign cannon fire. We have built schools and hospitals, a telephone network, generating stations, desalination plant and are currently building a new GBP 50m airport terminal. Gibraltar is economically self-sufficient and its OUR home, it is not for sale and even less are we giving it away to anyone, EVER. <br />
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So Jorge, if you still want that which is mine and to steal my childrens future, come and try and take it, but write a will first.<br />
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PS: No Richard, its not 'a Colony', Shame on you.
We may to swap Isla Maciel for the Falkland/Malvinas... Isla Maciel has a much warmer weather.
Feb 08th, 2010 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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