Understanding of the contradictions of the Mideast conflict is required to navigate through the rivers of rhetorical hate.
— my mind has often turned to a dear Palestinian friend in Gaza City whom I used to visit decades ago.
A small but significant number of Israelis and Gazans — farmers, merchants, professionals, and intellectuals — had personal contact with each other, knew each other’s names and histories, and could debate how to end Israel’s occupation of the territory. Gazans could travel to the West Bank, Israelis got their cars fixed in Gaza City, and tens of thousands of Gazan Palestinians worked in Israel., leaving Gaza to live off international aid.
I reject the comparison of numbers — measuring how many civilians Hamas killed to how many Palestinian kids die from Israeli bombs. Hamas is operating in crowded urban areas and does hide within, alongside, and underneath civilian buildings in tunnels. That endangers schools, mosques, churches, and possibly hospitals. This is a war that Hamas started, and its strategy means that too many Palestinian civilians will be killed.
Disappointingly, U.S. efforts have failed to secure the safe zones or permission for hundreds of Palestinian-Americans to leave Gaza for Egypt via the Rafah crossing.But the delay likely did Israel a favor, giving officials more time to think through their next move. In their rush to compensate for the failures that enabled Hamas killers to run wild, Israel’s political and military leaders didn’t seem to have a clear plan to achieve their overpromised goal of destroying Hamas.
I traveled through Israel and the West Bank, and one thing’s clear: The two-state solution looks dead — but no one has a better alternative.
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