Friday, January 25, 2008
Bursting the Gaza bubble
Martin Kramer analyzes the implications of the recent explosion of Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt. I liked this bit particularly:
There were 350,000 Palestinians in Gaza in 1967. Now there are 1.3 million, who are pushing against the envelope of Gaza’s narrow borders with growing force. Israel has the power and the resolve to push back. Egypt just doesn’t, which is why the envelope burst where it did.
That pressure will not relent, and since Hamas seeks to channel it into a “right of return” on the ruins of Israel, which the United States says it rejects, the question is this: where does Washington propose to divert this pressure?
That really is the question, isn't it?
1 Comments:
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Sun Jan 27, 01:52:00 AM:
I suggest one look up the UN's welfare activities in Palestine since partition. The UN (and that means the US taxpayer) has been funnelling free food into the place for 60+ years. With little or no economic activity (who needs it with free food?) what did we expect the population to do, decrease?
