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Jul 9, 2014
reconnect with gaza or disconnect even more?
There is no shortage of opinions being offered as to what should be done to solve the current security situation between Israel and Gaza.
Even on the right-wing edge of the Likud there seems to be conflicting opinions.
While some believe, and I thought this was the more common opinion of people on that edge of politics, that Israel should reconquer and occupy Gaza. Take control. Re-engage. It was clearly a mistake to disengage, so it is time now to solve the problem by re-engaging.
I hear this argument fairly regularly, especially now during the current conflict.
MK Tzippi Hotoveli (Likud), who is considered by most people to be on the right-wing side of the Likud party, has suggested something completely different. Just the opposite, as a matter of fact. Hotoveli does not say to re-engage, but to disengage even further.
Hotoveli is calling on the government to stop supporting the infrastructure in Gaza, the electricity and water systems, and to financially disengage from the Gaza Strip.
I get both arguments, and maybe even Hotoveli's is a suggestion only because she knows Israel won't re-engage (perhaps - I dont know if she thinks that, if she thinks it would be a bad idea or something else)... but I find it interesting that people on the same side, and in the same corner, of political ideas can come up with entirely opposing solutions to the same problem.
Even on the right-wing edge of the Likud there seems to be conflicting opinions.
While some believe, and I thought this was the more common opinion of people on that edge of politics, that Israel should reconquer and occupy Gaza. Take control. Re-engage. It was clearly a mistake to disengage, so it is time now to solve the problem by re-engaging.
I hear this argument fairly regularly, especially now during the current conflict.
MK Tzippi Hotoveli (Likud), who is considered by most people to be on the right-wing side of the Likud party, has suggested something completely different. Just the opposite, as a matter of fact. Hotoveli does not say to re-engage, but to disengage even further.
Hotoveli is calling on the government to stop supporting the infrastructure in Gaza, the electricity and water systems, and to financially disengage from the Gaza Strip.
I get both arguments, and maybe even Hotoveli's is a suggestion only because she knows Israel won't re-engage (perhaps - I dont know if she thinks that, if she thinks it would be a bad idea or something else)... but I find it interesting that people on the same side, and in the same corner, of political ideas can come up with entirely opposing solutions to the same problem.
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The disengagement plan that was proposed to the Likud for the referendum where it lost actually specified nothing about a real disengagement and in fact how Israel would would continue to support and improve the Gaza infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteInfluenced by a faulty Western belief that if you give a people enough terrific infrastructure, they will want to live the good life and will lay down their weapons and vote in good leaderships. But corrupt leadership does not go down so easily.
ReplyDeleteA second approach is to forcibly appoint a reliable government and slowly disengage so that government can democratically stand on its own. But non-democratic culture is not accustomed to standing up for democratic rights so this too is difficult to maintain.
What other options are there? To impose rule on a people for their own good - but we gave up on that in the hopes that option (1) or (2) would work. To let them fend for themselves, treat them as a real and separate country - but we already see the humanitarian situation, it will surely not improve.
So are we left to continue to sacrifice on behalf of the poor Gazan people who will never realize what we are trying to give them, because they are constantly raped by their corrupt leadership? And be blamed by the "world" that we are the cause of everything bad in Gaza. And occasionally send some bombs of our own into Gaza to push back the terrorism for another year or two. I guess.