>>However, I think that, unfortunately, the chances of doing the above lie somewhere between zero and none.
Actually Tamar posted a link to an article with some concrete suggestions: e.g.
- Allow more export of goods from Gaza. That would allow creation of a middle class of small businesspeople who we know are the ones who create employment and social stability. With no jobs or industry, the locals are dependent on Hamas.
Where is the victim in such a proposal? The article also says that Walter's countrymen/women offered to donate a scanner to avoid use of transport for weaponry if that is the objection.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
