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Originally Posted by chambers92
I don't know what they should do about Gaza/ Hamas except that for now the PA shouldn't be expected to police Gaza. But I agree with you, a three state solution isn't going to happen nor should it. The PA probably doesn't know what they're doing which is why Jordan and perhaps Egypt can help train their police.
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As things stand right now, Gaza is exactly where the PA should be. If Gaza is to be part of a Palestinian state, then the PA’s first priority should be reclaiming Gaza. Ending this civil war between Hamas, and the PA needs to be the single highest priority. Or everything else will be for naught. Some one (other than Hamas (or any other terrorist group)) has to be in charge.
Which brings all of this around to the beginning again. A separate Arab state within Israel, was all but a done deal, before Arafat was allowed to return from exile. All that was needed, was for the Arabs to establish some form of governing. In this day, and age, a people (any people) has to have someone to represent them. The international community is not going to spend time trying deal with each individual person, individually. Keeping track of all the current treaties is hard enough, without requiring nations to have to deal with millions of individual people separately.
Of course the PA cannot do it alone, which is why Jordan, and Israel have offered to help them. Jordan has offered troops, and logistic support. While the Israelis have offered heavy weapons, and air support.
But here is where the problems begin. The PA is unwilling to ask for help. They fear that by accepting help, or even asking for it, that they are admitting that they are too weak to do it themselves. Weakness is considered a bad thing, in many cultures.
The fact that they are too weak is yet another problem here.
Additionally, the PA does not want the responsibility. Clearing Hamas out of Gaza, is going to be a very bloody business, and the PA does not want to get its hands dirty. They want someone else (Israel) to be the bad guys here.
In all of human history, no nation has ever been created (born) without a considerable amount of bloodshed. The PA wants their “Palestine” to be the first. Which is to say, that the PA does not want the blood to be on their hands. Hamas knows this, and they are taking advantage of it.
All of which only compounds the problems of trying to create a separate state within another state. (It has never been done (successfully) before for a number of very good reasons.) As illustrated by the current situation within Gaza now. The uninformed only see Israel blockading Gaza. That is only because Gaza is located within Israel. It is not (just) Israel that is involved here. It is the entire international community that has denounced Hamas. Israel (and Egypt) have both been given the job of operating the blockade (for the entire international community) because no one else can do it. At least not without invading either Israel, or Egypt.