Max Chaplin
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I can think of no good solution. Here's a mediocre solution, laden with violations of human rights and prone to failure and going back to square one:
1. Israel retakes Gaza, eliminates Hamas and installs a puppet regime of Israeli Arabs. With cues from China, Orwell and post-WW2 Germany, Gaza is made into a complete panopticon - cameras, internet monitoring, a network of spies, you name it. This is very problematic, but it's preferable to collective punishment. This is meant to be temporary.
2. Using American and European money, The homes, schools, hospitals and stores are rebuilt. Massive famine relief is performed. A UBI plan is initiated to allow the Gazan economy to get... (read more)
Roger Williams, is that you?
Yes, it is paternalistic. Part of my point was that the situation in Gaza is so dire in terms of life quality and radicalization that a dystopian colonial social engineering project would be almost humane in comparison. This is where the great challenge lies - how to ascertain that after Hamas is eliminated (and it must be; after October 7th Israel will not rest until it's gone), Gazans won't promptly create its sequel.
But yeah, everything past the deradicalization stage is just a suggestion, and if it's successful, Gazans get to choose the direction of their economy.