Summary
A different approach for Israel, can been characterized by involving the Palestinian Authority, U.S.A and even China.
We are no longer living in a world, where any single country can shape and shift the world ideologies and influence different countries. Throughout the history the rivals of Israel, remain the same. In the Middle East, Washington avoids the leadership position and leaves Israel in a difficult spot, with other actors like Iran and Palestine to become disruptive activists. Right now, American policy is to focus on the Islamic States, Iran, and Russia. The rise of Islam and jihadism in this region is a result of religious hierarchy and social norms that draw inspiration and instruction from those local religious groups.
Israel stands between the modernized world and the retrograde world. Hamas is an organization that must be exterminated and/or isolated from this world. The leadership of Israel is in a difficult position because they are pursuing the extermination of Hamas and are trying to weaken the West-Bank based Palestinian Authority, so they can be able to promote progress toward the Palestinian state. Some of the problems that arise is that Hamas gains ground in the area and gets stronger. The state of Israel needs to go back and draw up another plan that covers the basic needs of the Palestinian Authority, too. It is very difficult to balance the situation, with the extermination of all the terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. We don’t want to see anymore terrorist groups in this area and only smart politics and leadership that covers every aspect, can save the state of Israel. Israel has been persecuted by all these groups and doesn’t need anymore pain.
My suggestion is that the area needs to be balanced by the help of outside forces. The U.S.A and China needs to get seriously involved. The help from Chinese intervention in public relations is necessary with states like Iran. And, the U.S.A can provide logistics about the terrorist groups. It is a fixable issue if the whole world takes some attention and time. Solutions have to come from the involvement of the whole world.
One reply on “A different approach for Israel.”
Yota,
This was your best blog post yet. I think that a large amount of the blame for the Hamas surprise attack can be laid directly at the feet of PM Netanyahu. He has been highly duplicitous in giving lip service to the two-state solution, but has actually done everything in his power to prevent it from becoming a reality. Perversely, he allowed Hamas to grow stronger, which he believed would stop the Palestinian Authority from becoming an effective political force in the West Bank. Now everyone’s worse fears have been realized–the largest number of murdered Jews since the Holocaust in Europe. Netanyahu will pay the price for this politically, as he surely should. –Professor Wallerstein