Hamas invaded Israel 2023

[brihard]

Assuming what he said is 'gospel", the US Military could come in and build a couple of camps in Gaza, place refugees in there, while they clear the roads of rubble and debris and set up aid stations. Then hire Gazans to construct new buildings to the specs supplied by Americans with them overseeing it. Those that work can earn money and perhaps even title to some of the places they build.
It's full of risks and things to go wrong. Done right you could undermine Hamas in the process, a bit like a Briggs Plan tailored for the region.

I don’t assume anything about what comes out of his mouth, but it’s serious enough that I’ll take it at partial face value.

Indulging your hypothetical, the U.S. military has no legal right to invade Gaza nor to force its occupants into camps. Were they to do so anyway, they would be right back into the sort of long term occupation of foreign places that a Trump has made noise about getting end of.

How many dead American soldiers and how much spent U.S. treasure do you think the U.S. population would tolerate for the sake of building apartments and schools and clinics in Gaza? Because it would cost a lot of both.

In any case, at this point it’s merely mouth noises from one of the world’s most accomplished bloviators. Hopefully adults in the room simmer this idea down.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I don’t assume anything about what comes out of his mouth, but it’s serious enough that I’ll take it at partial face value.

Indulging your hypothetical, the U.S. military has no legal right to invade Gaza nor to force its occupants into camps. Were they to do so anyway, they would be right back into the sort of long term occupation of foreign places that a Trump has made noise about getting end of.

How many dead American soldiers and how much spent U.S. treasure do you think the U.S. population would tolerate for the sake of building apartments and schools and clinics in Gaza? Because it would cost a lot of both.

In any case, at this point it’s merely mouth noises from one of the world’s most accomplished bloviators. Hopefully adults in the room simmer this idea down.

Oh wait, what's this?

• The Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip do not have any proved hydrocarbon reserves, but fields on the Israeli side of the boundaries may extend across the West Bank and Gaza borders. The discovery of the Gaza Marine field in the Mediterranean Sea in 2000 indicates the presence of hydrocarbons, although the resources are not yet commercially viable. The Gaza Marine field holds an estimated 1.6 trillion cubic feet in recoverable natural gas resources.

International - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

 

[Cloud Cover]

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[Colin Parkinson]

I don’t assume anything about what comes out of his mouth, but it’s serious enough that I’ll take it at partial face value.

Indulging your hypothetical, the U.S. military has no legal right to invade Gaza nor to force its occupants into camps. Were they to do so anyway, they would be right back into the sort of long term occupation of foreign places that a Trump has made noise about getting end of.

How many dead American soldiers and how much spent U.S. treasure do you think the U.S. population would tolerate for the sake of building apartments and schools and clinics in Gaza? Because it would cost a lot of both.

In any case, at this point it’s merely mouth noises from one of the world’s most accomplished bloviators. Hopefully adults in the room simmer this idea down.

The same legal right that Turkey uses and several other countries as well.

Likely the Briggs plan is the only way forward, fortified camps with strict access control. Followed up with jobs and improved land rights, etc. Establish a armed force to police the newly built areas and counter Hamas.

 

[brihard]

The same legal right that Turkey uses and several other countries as well.

Likely the Briggs plan is the only way forward, fortified camps with strict access control. Followed up with jobs and improved land rights, etc. Establish an armed force to police the newly built areas and counter Hamas.

Invading a place illegally is invading a place illegally even if other people do it. Israel at least has an articulable case to be made given the direct impacts to their domestic security. America has none whatsoever. It would be no more legitimate, justifiable or righteous than Iraq going into Kuwait.