Interesting assertion because Jared Kusher, the son-in-law of the US President from 2017 to 2021, made this bargain a pretty explicit one.
Lapid’s solution, which he intends to present to the Israeli cabinet, is equally whimsical. He wants their support for his ‘economy in exchange for security’ policy, which would end the cycle of confrontation and create stability on both sides of the border.
Palestinians, in my own humble opinion, were and are absolutely correct to reject this deal. The economy can change without any one institution or group being responsible. If a nation or ethnic group has been given rights, then no one can take those rights away without there being a group or individual that’s explicitly responsible.
For instance, the US violated treaties with Native Americans all the time, but Tribal People can use those treaties to argue for wat few rights are grated in them. At the very least, they can argue that a treaty or understanding should be repealed.
The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair “suggested that all international aid should be allocated to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.” How much good did that do for the Palestinians who lived there?
Two years after Mr Blair left office as Quartet envoy, a 2017 UNCTAD report spoke of grinding de-development, suppressed human potential and denial of the basic human right to development in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS).
In other words, Palestinians of Gaza lost nothing by being shut out of the “prosperity” that the West Bank was supposedly getting. As Gaza is as strong as ever and as several wars have failed to destroy it, Israelis are beginning to conclude that they simply have to deal with it.
