Israel’s moral imperative to assist Gaza
After the first news from last Friday’s 17 dead shot at the border between Israel and Gaza, Jerusalem Post reporter (insert name) woke me up to reality.
80 percent of Gazans are former residents of Palestine, now trapped in the enclave that is 60 by 15 km and within it are 2 million human beings. With 3 hours of electricity per day and not enough water. Also I had been mistaken about the fact that it was the Israeli government who after ordering the Jews to leave Gush Katif had destroyed all homes, schools, synagogues etc..
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I have been an Israeli citizen for now 30 years, have raised 5 children in this country to which I migrated at the age of 25 from the US, and have been married twice and divorced twice. I have had the benefit of a good US education with degrees from Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Chicago. As an Orthodox Jewish women I fully intend to use the leadership capacity I have within me to make the voice of reason be heard in a country where the daily noise and the bustle of living drowns out the capacity to think.
But I have been thinking and it is simple: If the Saudis can build NEOM in the desert as a hi-tech city with 6 branches of enterprise and pour 500 Billion dollars into that future creating project for the time when oil runs out and when their people will need to do something else, then we here in Israel also can come up with a better plan than the Hamas for the people in Gaza. Hamas has been selling the “Return back to the homecountry” false hope and investing in their tunnel system (backed by Qatar) and in rocket attacks on the residents of the South in Israel. We here have enough economists, policy planners, labor market experts and bankers, to come up with a sustainable plan for the two million people in Gaza, their education, their healthcare, their electricity and water needs, and their labor market best bet strategy which is intelligent telework.
Instead of the whole Israeli military machine one more time reacting to our so-called enemies (or the terrorists as they are referred two), we need to offer these people a better future than either Hamas or the PA until now have been offering them. We have the Moshiach in Jerusalem and his Humanomics (sm) vision and plan, including the Integration of Labor (sm). We don’t need to be on the defensive here, rather on ther offensive but on a completely different plane: future vision. There are women, there are men, and their are children and adolescents and the elderly in Gaza. There are 2 million people with a dream they cannot and will not achieve (returning “home” to their villages in Israel). At the minimum we owe it to them, to provide them with a sustainable future that allows them to live in dignity and health in Gaza, and later on when some sort of normalcy has been built together with our partners in the US, in Germany, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, we also ought to give them the opportunity to visit Israel, based on clean police records, and come to terms we their displacement by at least having the option to visit Israel whenever they want, for up to 4 weeks a year.
The military option of simply shooting the people in Gaza or fighting wars with them does not work to create a future, it only creates more chaos. The longer we ignore the people in Gaza the worse it will get. We must now truly love them as ourselves. We all want to be in a comfortable home, have water and electricity, and Internet, have good jobs, and be able to see doctors when we need to. We all want to have children, and raise them to blessed adulthood and psychological maturity and be rpoud of their achievements? Well they also want this! And here in Israel we have a moral obligation to assist them with a special unit dedicated to drafting the master plan for the next 50 years in Gaza. Perhaps even teaching German as a foreign language as the country Oman decided. The future is wide open. But it requires the science of intelligent design that is Humanomics (sm). Let’s end the cycle of death and destruction, and instead proactively extend our goodwill to them, and help them receive back their diginity as human beings.
