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I’ve started mouthing about what sounds like the title of a political thriller: “The Gaza Suzerainty”. That is the only decent near answer not only for peace but for humanity. It would also set off a new adventure for Gazans, specifically embracing the challenge of reinventing themselves as the residents of a modern city-state with all of the obligation, privileges, and rights accorded any person in any open society free to truly determine its course. That solution would end arguments about absorption in some way as well as the destruction of Israel for the most heinous of causes, either “pan-Arab nationalism” (ask al-Assad about that) or a fascist Islamism.
None else dare whisper it: suzerainty.
Auspices: responsible Egyptian-Israeli partnership not only controlling the foreign affairs of the city state as well as present martial ambitions and capabilities, but Gaza’s redevelopment opportunities as a democratic and peaceful society.
Addendum
This post began as an aside and would seem to have been overtaken by the combination of Hamas intransigence and Israeli vision.
This showed up in the feed yesterday, and as I keep the Sabbath, I encountered just a few minutes ago.
Late last week, BackChannels also noted that Israel had built and opened an emergency field hospital for Gazans, and that it was already providing services to those who could get to it.
Israel has now long provided similar field hospital services to Syrians who could reach facilities with their wounds or other needs and encounter a medical ethic in which the person and the medical problem receive attention, not the politics.
Loosely related to Hamas’s short history of governance on the strip:
“They drive Mercedes’ and, you know, if we didn’t have money from Farah’s parents, we wouldn’t have anything to eat. I have been unemployed for six months and of course we can’t work in Israel. The SOBs are taking everything for themselves,” he complained bitterly. “But luckily, now there’s Hamas. And they will fix the corruption. I’m going to vote for them in the elections.”
More has popped up on the web as regards Hamas behavior with its own constituents and with the media:
http://www.thomaswictor.com/massacre-at-shijaiyah/ – 7/31/2014.
http://www.thomaswictor.com/the-un-school-at-jabalia/ – 8/2/2014.
In psychology, a narcissists effort to manipulate a target with false information is referred to as “gaslighting”. In psychology, also, the same may be limited to the intimate sphere of the person. In political psychology, it would appear that a movement’s effort to misdirect attention and mislead a large public, including its own constituency, may amount to “Gaslighting” with that capital “G”.
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