The most practical choice i would chose is to exterminate every
last one of them. Man, Women and Child. Eliminate every single
potential threat, the child and mother is going to grow up hating
you anyway, what's the point?
It's the most straightforward option, the world would just
forget about it in a decade or two. The show of force would
discourage the Arab countries from ever provoking Israel and
it would take the least amount of time to accomplish, with the
lowest material cost.
Best of all, I can time it after the election since it's so
close when I no longer have to please the people. One half of the
parliament would hail me as the hero of the hour, willing to do
what is needed, the other will call me a monster but all you got to
do is call that half cowards and traitors then your political
position would be secured.
The more painful option B, the weaker option i would chose is to
introduce scholarships for young bright Palestinian youths, both
men and women. Bring them to the best universities in Israel, make
sure they are given good accomodations and basically make sure they
mingle with the other Israel students.
I would get student volunteers who could speak the language to
ensure these Palestinian youths are as comfortable as possible and
protect them from harassments.
I see the problem as social, rather than racial, religious.or
even historical. There is severe poverty and unemployment
issues among the Palestinians. As long as that exists Hamas will
never run short of volunteers. Idle men are always
aggressive.
Taking their brightest and educating them alongside with
Israel's brightest would at least open their eyes to the lives of
the enemies, hatred is easy when you do not mix on an everyday
basis with the enemy. When their education is done and they go
back, you basically create a more moderate leadership among the
Palestinian people.
Fund construction projects and build infrastructure for them,
paying attention to employ Palestinian workers, if they have the
engineers and architect to handle the job pioritize the jobs to
them. Ensure they have access to proper
water/food/electricity/sanitation and medical support.
Cut down on the checkpoints to the Gaza strip, allowing the UN
and volunteer groups to help. No more discrimination policies,
allow foreign groups with Palestinian members to come and go as
they please.
During this time, Hamas and foreign funded groups would do their
best to sabotage the process. Ignore them, do what you can to help
the wounded but do not retaliate. Continously use the foreign media
to highlight the damage Hamas is doing, make sure to protray that
Israel is the victim. Make sure that such stories are distributed
among the Palestinians.
Members of the Israeli government would not like such
arrangements, they would do their best to destroy the effort either
through deliberate actions or simply not doing anything at all. For
such individuals, use the Sedition Act and bring them up on false
charges and throw away the keys. Deny them access to everything,
including visitors and phonelines.
Idealistically , i would chose Option B. But it would never work
in a Democracy simply because of the short term memories of the
electorate. Tough retaliation would always be more popular than
soft ones. The people want "strong" leaders, they want alpha males
as leaders! Not weak sympathetic women !(No offense, of course to
Golda Meir)
Imply that we sympathize and not understand the stituation is a
phrase i find very annoying. It is used far too often to defeat
arguments and options that we ourselves didn't even give much
thought to.I see the others in this thread posting reasonable
arguments but all put down easily by the use of "Arab
propagandists, Arab sympathizers and Israel haters"
