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It increasingly feels like the only medium-term solution in Palestine is a large UN peacekeeping force. Both to protect the people in Gaza and to prevent attacks from Gaza on Israel. And it's going to have to be in there for decades.
Any solution that doesn't at least attempt to prevent all of the attacks on Israel isn't going to work. Anything which lets Israel come in to Palestine and cause destruction isn't going to work.
You can argue all you like about whose fault is what. Or who has what rights. Frankly, I'm not interested in much of that, and I don't think it helps to find a solution, so you can argue about it somewhere else.
But any solution will require both sides to stand the hell down, and be prevented from going quickly back to constant attacks on each other. And I don't see a way of making that happen without a peacekeeping force to both police Gaza and protect it.
I'm not convinced that this will work either. But I've not seen any other suggestions that would work better than it. It would absolutely require the US to be on-board with it, and basically tell Israel that they will need to accede to it in order to keep US support.
(I'm going to be keeping a stricter eye than usual on this post. If you cannot be polite to people who are quite possibly coming in with very different viewpoints than you, then don't comment at all. And, as I said above, arguments about fault and rights can go in your own blog.)
Any solution that doesn't at least attempt to prevent all of the attacks on Israel isn't going to work. Anything which lets Israel come in to Palestine and cause destruction isn't going to work.
You can argue all you like about whose fault is what. Or who has what rights. Frankly, I'm not interested in much of that, and I don't think it helps to find a solution, so you can argue about it somewhere else.
But any solution will require both sides to stand the hell down, and be prevented from going quickly back to constant attacks on each other. And I don't see a way of making that happen without a peacekeeping force to both police Gaza and protect it.
I'm not convinced that this will work either. But I've not seen any other suggestions that would work better than it. It would absolutely require the US to be on-board with it, and basically tell Israel that they will need to accede to it in order to keep US support.
(I'm going to be keeping a stricter eye than usual on this post. If you cannot be polite to people who are quite possibly coming in with very different viewpoints than you, then don't comment at all. And, as I said above, arguments about fault and rights can go in your own blog.)
