Even if we accept your point that the best thing that can be done for the Palestinians in Gaza is to undertake a long-term colonization and nation-building project like what the US did to Germany and Japan after WWII, who in the world would be willing to make that kind of investment (in both blood and treasure) on Gaza's behalf?
Even if we accept your point that the best thing that can be done for the Palestinians in Gaza is to undertake a long-term colonization and nation-building project like what the US did to Germany and Japan after WWII, who in the world would be willing to make that kind of investment (in both blood and treasure) on Gaza's behalf?
Japan and Germany were rational investments for the US because both countries were on the front lines against hostile communist powers.
Israel has no such incentive to make that kind of investment. From their perspective, the optimal option would seem to be reducing Gaza to rubble, letting the population starve, and then opening the beachfront property to settlers afterwards.
For the rest of the world that has a stake (the US, Arab neighbors), there is likewise no incentive for that level of investment, and their optimal solution would seem to be looking the other way while Israel "cuts the grass" one last time.
Even if we accept your point that the best thing that can be done for the Palestinians in Gaza is to undertake a long-term colonization and nation-building project like what the US did to Germany and Japan after WWII, who in the world would be willing to make that kind of investment (in both blood and treasure) on Gaza's behalf?
Japan and Germany were rational investments for the US because both countries were on the front lines against hostile communist powers.
Israel has no such incentive to make that kind of investment. From their perspective, the optimal option would seem to be reducing Gaza to rubble, letting the population starve, and then opening the beachfront property to settlers afterwards.
For the rest of the world that has a stake (the US, Arab neighbors), there is likewise no incentive for that level of investment, and their optimal solution would seem to be looking the other way while Israel "cuts the grass" one last time.
One incentive lies in nuclear risk—given enough risk and Israel will find the cost worthwhile, given enough time and the risk will approach certainty.