dmallord
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And returning to the present day ... neither side has found a peaceful resolution. Most of that stems directly from religious intolerance. Never mind who owned or lived were - that's a non-starter solution. Those people are gone. The present people must come to grips with how to get along with one another.
How do you overcome that hatred to achieve a lasting peace? It will not happen with Hamas using textbooks to school children positing science questions on gravity illustrated by Arab gunmen shooting Israelis down in the street or a stated political aim of irradicating all Jews within its core documents. It doesn't come by attacks against one another that precipitate counter-attacks ad infinitum.
Israel is not helping the issue with further land grabs and extreme treatment of the Palestinians. Nor by controlling waterways, food supplies, medical access, and work restrictions on some two million nearly subjugation situations. That only feeds the region's despair, poverty, anger, and continuous strife.
It's as if the whole region needs a UN interdiction. An outside force that steps between the two parties and acts to disarm Hamas and corrals the leaders - perhaps Gitmo as a place to cool off until they are no longer a threat. That would still involve bloodyness, but at least it would be a unified battle against both warring parties. I suspect Israel would be open to ending such A legal body that imposes restrictions on Israel and a force with sets of rules that allow the Gaza region to heal and begin to prosper without oversight by Israel. An outside force that benevolently governs until a few generations have expired, and Gazans see some prosperity by co-existence and a threat by the UN that any more attempts will be met by harsh reprisals set into the governing rules for the region.
Some would say that's been tried before, and yes, it failed when the Brits pulled out. Shows that no one stayed the course long enough or set into stone a set of 'iron-fisted' benevolence. Maybe we could send in Trump - he'd declare 'victory' within a day and set things right.
How do you overcome that hatred to achieve a lasting peace? It will not happen with Hamas using textbooks to school children positing science questions on gravity illustrated by Arab gunmen shooting Israelis down in the street or a stated political aim of irradicating all Jews within its core documents. It doesn't come by attacks against one another that precipitate counter-attacks ad infinitum.
Israel is not helping the issue with further land grabs and extreme treatment of the Palestinians. Nor by controlling waterways, food supplies, medical access, and work restrictions on some two million nearly subjugation situations. That only feeds the region's despair, poverty, anger, and continuous strife.
It's as if the whole region needs a UN interdiction. An outside force that steps between the two parties and acts to disarm Hamas and corrals the leaders - perhaps Gitmo as a place to cool off until they are no longer a threat. That would still involve bloodyness, but at least it would be a unified battle against both warring parties. I suspect Israel would be open to ending such A legal body that imposes restrictions on Israel and a force with sets of rules that allow the Gaza region to heal and begin to prosper without oversight by Israel. An outside force that benevolently governs until a few generations have expired, and Gazans see some prosperity by co-existence and a threat by the UN that any more attempts will be met by harsh reprisals set into the governing rules for the region.
Some would say that's been tried before, and yes, it failed when the Brits pulled out. Shows that no one stayed the course long enough or set into stone a set of 'iron-fisted' benevolence. Maybe we could send in Trump - he'd declare 'victory' within a day and set things right.
