re: #330 LudwigVanQuixote

Yes. They can only continue as they have because they are so artifically propped up. If the aid came with real strings, things would change for certain.

You don’t need to guess. Everyone else that started a genocidal war and lost paid for it.

No that really is it. If you remove the aid, the Palestinians will quickly want a new government that will bring the aid back. The Arab league knows this and that is why there is UNRWA. The Palestinians were always a pawn kept just hungry and angry enough to subsist. Forcing them to sink or swim would remove the corruption and force behavior right away.

Also let’s be clear, they do a lot more than “misbehave.”

All of those rockets, terrorist attacks, kidnappings and mutilations of families in their homes are acts of war.

What I am proposing is the nice option.

The not nice option is to remind the world that Gaza was claimed by Egypt and the West bank of Jordan used to be Jordan and that yes there was a two state solution already (actually three) set up with the formation of modern Egypt and Jordan and push the Palestinians into their own actual countries by military force.

I am going to go out on a limb at this point and say that I think you’re wrong here LVQ.

If the current governments attacks on Israel cost Palestine their aid… I honestly see this fact would be used as yet another rallying cry against Israel rather than a lever to allow moderates to come to power. Much like how the end of the first world war only ended up creating still more resentment among Germans towards France, (among other targets) I think that your “nice” strategy of trying to use financial pressure on Palestine would decrease the amount of material resources they have to work with, but in the end only create more anger and thus give them more physical resources to work with.

So while yes I am a catnip smoking room above the basement living liberal… I think LVQ that at this point a “nastier” solution is called for (invasion, occupation, and reconstruction like we did to Japan) would be a plan with far greater chances of success (and if you can see the possible logic behind that I’ll go into crafting a theory about they might find the forces to do such a thing in my next post…)