Frank's Musings

Now that the Palestinian National Authority and average Palestinians have demonstrated their inability to control rabid terrorists, like Hamas, Hezbollah, and others, it is up to Israel to couple collaboration with the PNA with a proposal to take control of security in both Gaza and the West Bank, while nurturing the strengthening of the Palestinians themselves ultimately to govern an independent unified Palestinian state at peace with Israel.  That will also require at least the following three additional policy changes:

1)  The Israeli government must refrain from encouraging, if not prohibit, Jewish fundamentalists from increasing or even maintaining their settlements in the West Bank.

2)   Israel’s allies, if not new friendly Arab states, must help it finance the reconstruction of Gaza.

3)  Israel’s allies must also guarantee to aid and assist it with civil and military force, if necessary, if terrorist violence threatens the peaceful coexistence of the two separate states, Israel and Palestine.

K   Kid-glove handling of Jewish and Muslim interests in the Middle East has gone on and jeopardized world economic and human interests long enough.  It is time to hinge further financial and military assistance to both Israel and its Arab neighbors on their joining in a productive collaboration like the one outlined above.  Expressions of dissatisfaction with the religious implications of that material compromise are best left to the ephemeral world of the everlasting.