Sitting in the relative safety of Sydney where the worst we have to endure is a handful of Arab gangsters yelling “gas the jews”, I hesitate to be too critical, but I feel that there is something missing here: a plan for what to do if Hamas is indeed destroyed.
I don’t think israel can bomb, siege or berate the West Bank, still less Gaza into peaceful coexistence.
Nor after the failure of the Gaza withdrawal can it simply cede control.
So a new concept is needed. Almost certainly this will require some kind of shared restoration of control with Egypt in Gaza and Jordan in the West Bank for demilitarized states with externally guaranteed constitutional democracies. I call this the Andorran model.
But only a new government in Israel can deliver it or any peace plan.
Sitting in the relative safety of Sydney where the worst we have to endure is a handful of Arab gangsters yelling “gas the jews”, I hesitate to be too critical, but I feel that there is something missing here: a plan for what to do if Hamas is indeed destroyed.
I don’t think israel can bomb, siege or berate the West Bank, still less Gaza into peaceful coexistence.
Nor after the failure of the Gaza withdrawal can it simply cede control.
So a new concept is needed. Almost certainly this will require some kind of shared restoration of control with Egypt in Gaza and Jordan in the West Bank for demilitarized states with externally guaranteed constitutional democracies. I call this the Andorran model.
But only a new government in Israel can deliver it or any peace plan.