There will never be an independent arab Gaza, and there will never be an independent arab West Bank. As an independent country, they are not viable and never will be. They have no markets, no source of employment other than welfare and terrorism, no manufacturing base, nothing at all.
The destruction of this fence points to the only solution, even if its a solution no one wants. The solution is for Israel, first, to choose the borders she is prepared to live and die by, seal them, and defend them. They have largely done this. Part two is to force the mother countries to resume kicking and screaming their responsibilities for the contiguous arab territories. Egypt and Gaza, Jordan and the arab portions of the West Bank.
Jordan and Egypt don’t want to? Of course not. These two territories are designed to be a cancer on Israel’s hide. But the answer is to reverse the game, and force the mother countries to deal with their orphaned brethren across the imaginary border. If Israel doesn’t play the game, Jordan and Egypt have no choice but to resume control, or face outlaw enclaves on their own border. Israel has been playing along all this time, trying to control the border between Gaza and Egypt, for example, when all they need to do is control the border between themselves and the arabs in general, and let the arabs deal with the arabs.
If the arabs sail a missile over the line, move the line, it doesn’t matter whether it is Hamas or Egyptian military. Israel certainly had no qualms in the past seizing land from Egypt proper, or Jordan proper, they should have no qualms about doing it again if the current border is not respected. Gaza and West Bank are only “jails” if the line separating them from the rest of araby is closed by Israel. If it is closed by Jordan and Egypt, it isn’t Israel’s affair. Israel has to stop being the heavy, and let Egypt do Egypt’s dirty work for themselves.
That’s exactly right, and what a wonderful time to implement my plan:
Israel should build a series of unmanned rocket batteries that are triggered by launches from rocket attacks from within Gaza.
Explain to the whole world in a comprehensive communications project, complete with slideshow, powerpoints etc. that the system is on-line now and Israel has no control, other than teams that will reload the launchers.
Once a rocket leaves Gaza and enters Israeli air space, the launch site is obliterated some 2-3 city blocks within seconds to minutes.
Rather they really have it in place or not isn’t important, in the meantime they can plan and implement such a similar system. Or something that accomplishes the same effect:
Each time one of these jackals launches rockets from say a daycare center, it’s proven that the missle batteris are only triggered and target launch sites, ahead of time, not purposefully or under IDF or Israeli Air Force control. In other words, the system only targets offensive launch sites in a defensive net. It’s not therefore seen as retaliatory strikes, rather neutralizing incoming kassam rocket attacks.
Each launch releases a barrage of 10 rockets to destroy the site and the terorists in the vacinity. Manned teams can maintain the system and reload launch racks.
Seal the borders and tell the U.N. to get busy NOW with humanitarian aid and do their damn job but Israel no longer occupies that bit of arab territory, will defend herself but has washed it’s hands of the Gaza problem once and for all!