“This internal fighting that is taking place in Gaza is undermining the whole future of the Palestinian people,” said Mustafa Barghouti, the Palestinian information minister. ctv
The Palestinian situation grows more miserable by the day. The Troll of Ramallah tm created the conditions of corruption such that Hamas – violent as it is – was an appealing alternative. The proliferation of “security forces” aka EU funded militias ensured that civil society can be disrupted by gunmen at any instant. Decent people, of which there are hundreds of thousands, are afraid to speak simply because one Martyrs brigade or another will shoot them or hang them from the nearest lamppost. Meanwhile the “militant wing” of Hamas (which you must understand) has nothing whatsoever to do with the political wing (hey, it worked for the Troll) is firing, or trying to fire, rockets into Israel in a vain attempt to pretend that the Palestinians have some sort of military capacity.
Were the Israelis the Machiavellians they are painted as, they would be pushing for Palestinian statehood right now. About all the Palis are capable of is civil war and, so long as the wall holds the “Palestinian state” would spend the next couple of decades tearing itself into ever smaller factions.
Which, while it would be just deserts, is not at all the solution. What is needed is the creation of a third force within Palestine which will actually break the cycle of violence. And the place to start that is with a) jobs, b) women. While the boys are out playing Rambo, the wives and mothers in Palestine – always excepting those who are stupid enough to be raising their children for martyrdom – are trying to get by. It might not be a bad idea to help them. Simple things like micro loans, old computers and a willingness to buy their products could begin a shift in the Palestinian dilemma.
It is certainly worth a try. But it has to be done so that any money or stuff goes directly to the women without ever flowing through the bloody hands of the Palestinian Authority.
Best of all, it would undermine the disgustingly corrupt secularists and the vile death cult “Islamists” by eliminating their grip on the meager funds which arrive in Palestine.