This was the plan all along. Kill people, destroy their homes and infrastructure, then be all like “oh yeah we’d love to let you live there but it really needs a lot of work doing right now. But we’ll have it ready as soon as possible. Have you got somewhere to stay? I heard the Sinai is nice this time of year…”
I mean, that’s it exactly. It’s just like colonial settlers of old who (shocking, I know) had an unfortunate tendency to take land that already belonged to someone else. Minus the silly clothes.
All that Israeli propaganda about new luxury seafront property in Gaza…
You’re going to love that beach house that has no electricity or running water or sewage or garbage collection or an accessible road or an easy route to a store or a hospital…
If they built the beach houses they would run power and water to them. Possibly through that raised road that goes right through the middle of Gaza now.
It would only connect to the homes of occupiers though.
That sounds pretty expensive to do and even more expensive to maintain considering what’s around it. I sure wouldn’t trust that road to remain structurally sound indefinitely with all the water and power running through it.
Most city roads have lots of electrical wiring and pipes runjing under them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they constructed it with that possibility in mind since it is clearly there to separate north and south Gaza and to do so they would need to build some infrastructure along the road’s length.
I am clearly speculating though, but it would make sense based on Israel’s actions so far.
What they’re describing is a real phenomenon in the West Bank, though. Not that they necessarily run all of their utilities within/alongside a single road, but that Israeli settlers will strategically isolate Palestinian communities by building infrastructure that separates them.
The basic idea is that settlers will pick an attractive hill to build a settlement. They’ll also build a road leading to just that one settlement, and utilities which supply just that one settlement. Palestinians can’t freely cross Israeli territory, they have to cross through specific checkpoints. So they couldn’t cross the road or access any of those utilities without risking violence/death.
On one side of the road you might have a small Palestinian farming community, on the other side a larger town that they sell to. With the road, the farmers can no longer transport livestock/produce to the town to sell, and the Israelis just dammed the stream they used for irrigation, too. So the choice becomes either pack up and leave, or die in poverty. The larger community loses a source of food, and if their situation becomes too precarious as a result, they’ll pack up and leave as well.
Then with those communities gone, oh look, more room for settlements.
And then whenever the Gazans did anything to threaten the luxury homes or utility corridor, oh what a shame, need to push them back further to establish more of a safe buffer zone.
Oh look, that freed up some more room to build luxury homes!
I would love to see western countries send people, not only supplies to help rebuild Gaza. Preferably overseen by the direct body of UN troops rather than the local UNWRA.
Maybe then most supplies will actually make it to the people and homes that need them.
Military isn’t a problem. It’s a scape goat for people who don’t understand the size of our economy. By treaty we are obligated to spend 2%. We spend about 3%. That’s how large our economy is. It paid for my education and the job skills of many people I know. It doesn’t mean we can’t be more efficient with the spending but the military provides real benefits to society. Ever hear of the army corp of engineers ? NOAA? PHS?
Military spending is also required by the constitution.
GDP is not the amount of money spent on infrastructure or foreign aid. That comes directly from tax dollars and need to be measured that way. The entire economic output of the United States is not relevant when discussing infrastructure rebuilding or foreign aid.
And no they don’t come from tax dollars. They come from borrowing which is a large part of our problem. We over spend every year. Our tax revenue doesn’t even come close to our spending.
Sorry… you think foreign aid and infrastructure doesn’t come from tax dollars? What do you think is in government budgets that have to get passed every year?
The point being is we borrow for those things. Each year we go further and further in debt. Tax revenue is not exceeding the expenditures and it hasn’t for a very long time.
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