For what it is worth, this is what my Israeli friends have been suggesting as a "day after plan" since shortly after the October War began.
Edited to add: For clarity, my Israeli friends are NOT calling for a "concentration camp" or any mistreatment of the people of Gaza. They are calling for an mutually beneficial re-building plan jointly managed by the people of Gaza and individual Israeli businesses, NGOs, and other partnerships, leading to peaceful relations between the two peoples without terror and violence.
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....mutually beneficial re-building plan jointly managed by the people of Gaza and individual Israeli businesses, NGOs, and other partnerships, leading to peaceful relations....
I've read of numerous instances in which Jewish humanitarian groups and individuals have attempted to get food, medicine and other badly needed supplies to Gaza's men, women and children sometimes at significant risk from violent and militant Settlers.
Therefore it seems entirely possible that the same sort of generous and compassionate Jews can do the same thing on a larger scale. (1)
I have never believed the frequently held notion that:
"It's hopeless, those people have been fighting since the beginning of time."
Before the invasion of foreign, extremest Zionist terrorist gangs, Haganah, Irgun etc, native Palestinian Jews and Palestine's Arabs / Muslims were willing to share the land and its few resources with each other. (2)
I was not at all surprised to read that Jews and Muslims have closely lived, worked, studied and celebrated together before and I fully believe that there is enough good will in both communities for that to be possible again.
Finally, it is naive to believe that all reciprocal hostilities can be immediately erased just as opposition can be expected from extremists on both sides but the greater the misery of Gaza's starving, traumatized and tormented residents, the greater the global anti Israel / anti Jewish sentiment.
It is in everyone's best interest to relieve the misery in Gaza.
Thanks,
(1). "Jewish Donors Raise Unprecedented Funds for Humanitarian Aid to People in Gaza"
The New Israel Fund (NIF) has raised three quarters of a million dollars globally over the last month from more than 2,500 grassroots donors to help feed innocent people living in Gaza.
www.nif.org
EXCERPT "The New Israel Fund (NIF) has raised three quarters of a million dollars globally over the last month from more than 2,500 grassroots donors to help feed innocent people living in Gaza. Starting just before the holiday of Passover, thousands of donors from the United States, Israel, Canada, the U.K. and Germany gave in unprecedented numbers to NIF’s campaign.
This is the first time that NIF has raised, and distributed, this level of funding for programs outside of Israel." CONTINUED
(2). “Before Zionism: The shared life of Jews and Palestinians”
Before the advent of Zionism and Arab nationalism, Jews and Palestinians lived in peace in the holy land. Menachem Klein’s new book maps out an oft-forgotten history of Israel/Palestine, and offers some guidance on how we may go back to that time. By Noam Rotem Menachem Klein’s book, Lives in...
www.972mag.com
EXCERPT “He quotes the memoirs of Ya’akov Elazar from Jerusalem, who remembers how “the Muslim women cooperated respectfully with the customs of the Jewish religion.…the Muslim neighbors allowed the Jewish women to pump water necessary before the Sabbath.”
Klein also describes how some Muslims even joined their Jewish neighbors in reciting religious prayers.
He describes the
cheder (a traditional elementary school where the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language were taught) run by Hacham Gershon in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Arab parents brought their children so that they would learn how to behave properly.
Klein also writes that sexual relations and marriages between Jews and Arabs were not unheard of, even if they were not considered legitimate.” CONTINUED
