France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. are now backing the Egyptian/Arab plan to rebuild Gaza at a cost of $53 billion, while leaving the Gazans in place. This proposal is touted as a “realistic” alternative to President Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” concept.
Perhaps I am an outlier here, but I am not in favor of any plan to rebuild Gaza at the expense of others. Should Gaza’s attempted genocide really be rewarded with $53 billion in other people’s money? I think Gazans need to learn the lesson that it is a bad idea to start a war, and lose it.
The burden should be on them to build some kind of normal economy, and actually do productive work instead of living on global welfare. Their sad enclave should be reconstructed only to the extent they can pay for it, and are willing to prioritize construction over terrorism.
There is no track record to suggest that Gazans, given the opportunity, will do anything so rational. In the meantime, they should live with the consequences of their own sadistic folly, unaided by others.
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