Palestine Is A Festering Sore, My Solution
Palestine is appearing in the news more frequently with the world community finally starting to speak out on this polarizing issue. It started several weeks ago with a Swedish push for humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Now the Palestinians themselves are calling into question the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority.
The issue of Palestine and Israel is a very thorny one and one fraught with political stumbling blocks. It is such a "hot potato" issue that many choose just to ignore it for fear of polarizing their constituency. This blog is about challenging the status quo and about discussing topics just like the Palestinian issue openly. I know that you may disagree with my viewpoints, but now is the time to express yours.
The firestorm had really started when Hamas got enough votes to move into the legitimate mainstream government in Palestine last January. This is a similar situation to Hezbollah being embraced by the mainstream political powers in Lebanon. What happened next in Palestine, was the world voted its lack of confidence in such a political move in Palestine by chopping off its financial aid. Half of the Palestinian Authority's budget comes from foreign financial aid sources, and when Hamas became a legitimate part of the government, funding was simply halted by Russia, the United Nations, the US, and the European Union.
To start the aid back up again, Hamas must renounce violence and explicitly recognize Israel. The reality is that this will never happen. Hamas has an Islamic Extremist agenda, to recognize the rights of Israel and accept the 1993 Oslo peace accords signed by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) means that Hamas has to "sell-out" its radical beliefs.
Just as in Lebanon with Hezbollah, here we have the agenda of a few dictating a national policy for all. Who has suffered in both cases? The civilian population has been the victim in both cases. It seems so clear that the Palestinian people should simply resolve the situation by refusing to accept leadership from Hamas, but herein lies the difficulty, the population has been fed and been cared for by Hamas that they like the Lebanese people perceive these radicals (Hezbollah in Lebanon's case) as saviors for their cause not as creators of their problems. It is all a matter of perception by the general populace.
As a direct result of these actions, the plight of the everyday Palestinian living in poverty and desolation is a rallying cry for Islamic Extremists world wide to strike at Israel and the United States, who is perceived incorrectly by most Islamic Extremists as the puppet controller of Israel. The solution to the problems however rests with the Palestinian population.
It appears that a rejection of the Palestinian Authority is a foot within Palestine, but what will replace this entity is yet to be seen. I perceive that we will have more civil strife in this area in the very near future and unfortunately instead of addressing inside concerns the focus will shift to outside Palestine as the cause of the problems. Anger at the situation and civil strife will be directed at Israel and more violence and as a result more repression from Israel will ensue inflaming the situation further.
What do I think is the solution, well I think that a world government needs to be installed in Palestine much in the way that America handles the District of Columbia. The world government sponsored by the United Nations will need to handle the financial infrastructure of the country, make sure that employees of the state get paid, provide humanitarian relief services thereby emasculating the power of Hamas, and secure the borders, institute a national security identification program, and crack down on visitor immigration weeding out visiting terrorists. Pretty radical? Yes it is, but do you see a better path? Palestine is on the brink of financial collapse and chaos. The world community must step in to get Palestine on an even keel for the sake of the innocent civilians who are being used as political pawns on the world stage and to remove the festering thorn that has been used by Islamic Extremists as a call to violence and protest.
The issue of Palestine and Israel is a very thorny one and one fraught with political stumbling blocks. It is such a "hot potato" issue that many choose just to ignore it for fear of polarizing their constituency. This blog is about challenging the status quo and about discussing topics just like the Palestinian issue openly. I know that you may disagree with my viewpoints, but now is the time to express yours.
The firestorm had really started when Hamas got enough votes to move into the legitimate mainstream government in Palestine last January. This is a similar situation to Hezbollah being embraced by the mainstream political powers in Lebanon. What happened next in Palestine, was the world voted its lack of confidence in such a political move in Palestine by chopping off its financial aid. Half of the Palestinian Authority's budget comes from foreign financial aid sources, and when Hamas became a legitimate part of the government, funding was simply halted by Russia, the United Nations, the US, and the European Union.
To start the aid back up again, Hamas must renounce violence and explicitly recognize Israel. The reality is that this will never happen. Hamas has an Islamic Extremist agenda, to recognize the rights of Israel and accept the 1993 Oslo peace accords signed by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) means that Hamas has to "sell-out" its radical beliefs.
Just as in Lebanon with Hezbollah, here we have the agenda of a few dictating a national policy for all. Who has suffered in both cases? The civilian population has been the victim in both cases. It seems so clear that the Palestinian people should simply resolve the situation by refusing to accept leadership from Hamas, but herein lies the difficulty, the population has been fed and been cared for by Hamas that they like the Lebanese people perceive these radicals (Hezbollah in Lebanon's case) as saviors for their cause not as creators of their problems. It is all a matter of perception by the general populace.
As a direct result of these actions, the plight of the everyday Palestinian living in poverty and desolation is a rallying cry for Islamic Extremists world wide to strike at Israel and the United States, who is perceived incorrectly by most Islamic Extremists as the puppet controller of Israel. The solution to the problems however rests with the Palestinian population.
It appears that a rejection of the Palestinian Authority is a foot within Palestine, but what will replace this entity is yet to be seen. I perceive that we will have more civil strife in this area in the very near future and unfortunately instead of addressing inside concerns the focus will shift to outside Palestine as the cause of the problems. Anger at the situation and civil strife will be directed at Israel and more violence and as a result more repression from Israel will ensue inflaming the situation further.
What do I think is the solution, well I think that a world government needs to be installed in Palestine much in the way that America handles the District of Columbia. The world government sponsored by the United Nations will need to handle the financial infrastructure of the country, make sure that employees of the state get paid, provide humanitarian relief services thereby emasculating the power of Hamas, and secure the borders, institute a national security identification program, and crack down on visitor immigration weeding out visiting terrorists. Pretty radical? Yes it is, but do you see a better path? Palestine is on the brink of financial collapse and chaos. The world community must step in to get Palestine on an even keel for the sake of the innocent civilians who are being used as political pawns on the world stage and to remove the festering thorn that has been used by Islamic Extremists as a call to violence and protest.
Stop imposing a world government for a situation that clearly calls for the Jews to do away with their enemies.
I think we should import WORLD GOVERNMENT and some terrorists wherever you live. Then you can see how inept bureaucrats pretend to organize your society while the terrorists and thugs behave however they wish. Then we can hear reports about how the American peace process is stalled and the world will sit back and wonder, 'why?'
Posted by Anonymous | Mon Sep 18, 04:03:00 AM EDT
Yes a world government may be bureaucratic, but certainly would be a better alternative than what is there now.
I would take bureacracy over Hamas so I might get paid finally for my state job.
I would take bureaucracy over Hamas so my children could go to school and not cower in fear.
I would take bureaucracy over Hamas so that the billions in foreign aide could be restarted to help rebuild schools and hospitals.
I would take bureaucracy over Hamas so that I could try to at least have a normal life and stem the flood of violence.
The alternative is simply more violence targeting Israelis without a foreign oversite in the region and clearly Israel is not the agent to police the Palestinian territories.
Posted by The Watcher | Mon Sep 18, 07:37:00 AM EDT