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A suggestion for a solution

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Over on her WOW blog, Pat Taub posts a strong piece about “When Genocide Becomes Normalized.”  She asks for comments.  The following was my comment:

I don’t think think that most people realize that Israel is about the size of Massachusetts and Palestine is about the size of Philadelphia. So, here’s my solution if we in America really want to stop the carnage. Israel is a sovereign nation ruled by its elected government, so if it is conducting genocide, which it is, it should be left to it’s own resources to do any fighting it continues to do. We should not be sending the Israely government military aid of any kind — soldiers or weaponry. To appease the supporters of Israel, we say that we are not stopping their government, but neither are we helping them. This is their choice to wage their war the way their leader decided. There is a big disconnect between the Israely government and the Israely people. We support all Israely people.

 Instead, what we should do is send our best troops into Gaza to route out Hamas, with instructions to ensure that their tactics protect civilians at all costs and help them escape from the war zone. That’s where our financial support should go. And we should also work with — and provide resources to — all countries along Gaza’s borders to help them build livable camps for the refugees and provide them with food and water. No money to Israel. Our support should go to root out Hamas and, finally, help the Palestinians take back their own country from Israel.
 
Now, as far as Kamala is concerned. Before she can do anything positive, she has to get elected. That’s politics, and politics requires compromise. I don’t like her sending resources to Israel and I don’t like her approving the continuation of fracking. What she does with those issues after she is elected remains to be seen. In the meanwhile, she has my vote, for sure.